Recent content by Harri71

For goodness sake! I've lost 2 of my girls to some unknown wasting illness, one to a fox & have just found one of them with, what looks like a prolapsed egg vent! Didn't think keeping chickens was supposed to be this stressful (& expensive!) Off to the vets soon with the prolapse, atm she is in...

I am indeed :)

Gutted! Lost my speckledy hen to a fox! She went missing yesterday (my other half went to shut them up & she wasn't there). Found her body in the field near the house this morning, decapitated but otherwise untouched. The awful thing is her body was still warm. So now I have the guilt thing...

I had a few of those to start with & now one of my new hens has left some really weird, tube like, eggs filled with what appears to be just egg white. Assuming it doesn't go on for too long don't worry too much. As long as they are getting a good source of calcium from somewhere (layer...

Just a quick update, all of my girls are doing really well, all weighing nearly 3kg & santa bought me 3 new girls! Thanks for all of the advice peeps x

OK, it's official, my vets are a complete & utter bunch of idiots! Phoned them this morning to advise of Mrs Speckledy's death & what to do re the post mortum. They told me that not only do I have to take her corpse 200 miles (there & back, so 400 mile round trip) to have it done, I have to pay...

Just to let you know, Mrs Speckledy died this evening. In the UK you can't just buy antibiotics, they have to be prescribed by the vet, & mine won't prescribe broad spectrum ones to add to the water. Have asked & been refused. Will post again once I have found out what was wrong, but the...

She's lost another 100g so back to the vets today. Vet says there is no apparent reason for the weight loss & they can't really do much more unless she dies & then they can do a post mortum. Think that might just happen, have just weighed her again & she has lost another 50g since this morning.

as to the worming situation: The worming food I used doesn't need follow up, it is specifically designed as a 10 day course of feed, which has been fully consumed, as prescribed by both my vet & the farm from which I bought by chickens, they are only available in the UK with a vets...

The wormer was given via their food for 10 days, it comes built into a particular pellet that you use instead of their normal feed. Poultry Spice is a supplement that is added to the feed (1 teaspoon per 5 hens per day) it contains calcium 24%, protein 5% & other minerals was recommended by my...

Mrs Speckledy has been on a course of Baytril from the vets, who won't prescribe a broad spectrum antibiotic for the water (I asked & was refused ) They all live in the back garden, which is enclosed so unless they are allergic to something in the grass am not sure what they could be getting...

They were wormed with Flubenvet, which is the vets recommended wormer in the UK. I put them back on poultry grower pellets which have 21% protein, to which I add poultry spice for added calcium as well as scatter foods (multi grain stuff), they have suet pellets (beef fat will added insects)...

Yep, they had a few red mites which we have successfully treated

Hi, I need some advice on how to get some weight onto my chickens quickly. I now have 5 of the little beasties (a black maran, speckledy maran, brown ranger, white sussex a bluebelle) We did have a cream legbar, but we had to have her put down after a dramatic & catastrophic loss in weight &...