Thanks for the replies, and sorry its taken me so long to update! Cassie (short for Cassawary!), has made a full recovery without any intervention on my part and is getting bolder by the day. Thank you for the advice, we are making sure they are getting enough calcium and now we know what to do...
Hi, not sure how to explain this properly, but here goes. One of our new hens (ex battery farm, so around 14 months old) has got what looks like, an unformed egg coming from her vent. She is out with the others, but is hunched up and straining quite a lot. We are due to go on holiday today, and...
Thank you all for the welcome - pleased to see someone else from Scotland!
Hennifer is still limping, unfortunately one of our Border Collies grabbed her when he was sniffing about outside. Its not something he's done before, so it caught us all by surprise. We can't see any puncture wounds...
Hi, my name is Pauline, and I live in the beautiful Scottish Borders UK with my partner Barny, 3 Border Collies and our 3 hens - Mrs Clutterbuck, Speckles and Hennifer Lopez. We rescued our hens from a free range farm, about 9 months ago and they're still laying well - even now in the freezing...