Recent content by eyeofskye

Since my original post another three mothers have emerged with a total of 21 further bantam chicks Having nowhere to put them we have had to allow the mothers to raise the chicks in the wild and are putting food out for them but of course that is just feeding all the jackdaws, starlings and...

For birds yes!

Did I mention we have 4 geese and a pair of guinea fowl as well?

In the past we have only sold cockerels to good homes and not many at that. This time we have put a whole new family up on the local classifieds (which we run!) and are hoping for the best. We have a blog at http://www.skyechooks.com/. If we mention it on there maybe we will find some homes but...

It's been happening every year but this year looks like a record. I live on the Isle of Skye, Scotland and when Graham and I moved here we thought we would have a few hens, five seemed nice. Now after 10 years our hobby flock has reached around 200 over many breeds and all free ranging in our 1...

Perches are good stuff. All our runs have 3-4 3ft long perches in groups. That way the whole flock congregates on them for mass feather maintenance after the afternoon grain. I do a really simple easily maintained perch now that consists of half a broom handle ( really cheap and smooth) for the...

Thank you all of you for your replies but I'm afraid a little light has gone out. He just suddenly took a turn for the worse and lost the battle. I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe the period of hypothermia caused an organ to shut down, we'll never know. Not in a good place at the moment Brian

I don't know what picture limits are but here are a couple of our setup last winter. Brian

Quote: I think you are probably right but we have had some miracles in the past and with them all being pets we work with the where there's life there's hope principle. If this was an adult hen we would probably have culled but you get very sentimental about a little chick just starting out in...

Just joined so a bit cheeky to ask for help so soon but it is an emergency. We lost a hen for some weeks and only found her when I happened to hear cheeping coming from the neighbour's bracken jungle. By the time we found the girl there were only two, comatose, hypothermic chicks. I fired up...

Hi all, My partner and I live on the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland. Neither of us are in good health but somehow we manage to look after a flock of pet chooks which started out as a 5 hen hobby and has grown over the last 7 years until we now have 127 hens/cockerels and 3 geese...