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Not that I know of, but I trust the chickens to recognize one if they see it :p Plantain has lots of benefits; mine like and eat the seeds. As it happens I am currently working through a list of welsh native plants on a display at the apothecary's hall at the national botanic garden near here...

Foraging among wild plants aka weeds; I think that they are good at self-medicating if they get the chance. Have you got a particular illness in mind?

She's a Speckled Sussex; very pretty. I hope to have some of them one day. In my experience a flock tolerates one of their number who is sick with something idiopathic (non-contagious) but turn on one who has something infectious and who therefore represents a threat to the health of everyone...

:frow bore da! Welsh miners were an adventurous lot! The calendar and the actual weather are not always in sync, and certainly not here this year; a couple of mine have started moulting and I think they think it's autumn (the usual time to dump old and grow new feathers, so they're in best...

OK let's try to work systematically through the possibilities. what time of year is it where you are? how long ago did they start the laying cycle that they are in?

hello @Parsino :frow welcome to BYC If you have been getting 2-3 eggs per day from 6 hens for 7/8 months, I expect that your hens are taking a well earned break from laying and going into molt (their old feathers fall out and they grow new ones in time for winter). If, on the other hand...