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Thanks for your advice! I do worm them but in thinking about it I was probably overdue. I do think it was just bad timing and they were unrelated issues - I guess I was just really worried about my last little girl! But it's been a number of days and she still seems fine. We bring her in...

Oh dear! I didn't give you nearly enough info! I'm so sorry. Annie (the poorly chicken) wasn't very old. We got her as POL 16 months ago. She was a hyrbid, although I don't know of what - but she laid green eggs and size-wise was halfway between a bantam and large fowl. Her diarrhoea was...

On Christmas Eve our hen, Annie Oakley, died. She had been poorly for a few days - diarrhoea, pale comb, lethargic, had stopped laying, etc. Our other two chickens seemed fine so we sadly wrote it off as 'one of those things' and disinfected the coop, feeders, etc. But yesterday (3 days...

We recently adopted two chickens from a local school that didn't want them. (We didn't have any chickens prior.) One of them is laying regularly. (Thank you, Princess Feather Pants.) The other one, as far as we can tell, has only laid one normal egg since she arrived five weeks ago. She...

Thank you everyone for your warm welcome!!

19 pages and not a soul form Sussex? Well, let me be the first! I'm near(ish) Brighton and embarrassingly new to chicken keeping. Really glad I found this site!

We have adopted two chickens from a local school that didn't want them. We have never had chickens and were lucky enough that we got the coop, food, feeders, etc - everything but the run! We have a neighbour, who is a fencer, installing a run for us - soon I hope! In the meantime we set up...