Recent content by Shandon

Fantastic photograph, congratulations!

Hello, I was working on a farm yesterday where there was a hen with, what appeared to be, a large (almost golf ball size) cyst or abscess on here ankle. She walked with quite a bad limp but otherwise looked well and seemed to be feeding well. I'd love to pass on some advice to the owners if...

In June 2009 we took in four hens from an intensive (caged) egg producer, in the hope of giving them a happy 'retirement'. Earlier this year we lost one of our hens to an unknown condition, the symptoms were that she became lethargic, and tended to stand hunched in a ball with her neck sunk into...

No rooster action for her I'm afraid, there's just the four hens here! If she just had no feathers in that area I would agree that it was probably down to her life as a battery hen as you suggest, but she keeps getting the beginnings of feathers there and then she loses them! Is that what...

Hello, I wonder if anybody can offer any advice on the following. We adopted four ex battery hens in East Anglia, UK in June this year. They seem to be doing fine generally, and all continue to lay consistently. One however has a bald spot at the base of her tail about two inches in diameter...