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This chicken has had issue after issue - the rest of the flock is healthy and happy. She's been off colour and hasn't laid for ages. I wormed her and she improved a little, moulted and regrew nicer feathers. She then had vent gleet so I treated with thrush cream, that cleared up. Then she just...

She was disappearing for large chunks of the day - like a few hours, but then reappearing and wandering around happily with the rest of the flock. And after she was done sleeping on them the last two nights before I found her she'd be out early waiting for the others to be let out. I agree it...

Eggs have all been taken in, there wasn't much of a nest - they were in a pile behind a shed and under some railings. But hopefully if she visits when she's let out and finds it empty she won't lay there again.

Update: they've all been in the pen for two days now. No eggs from her yet - I would know as the colour is specific to her. Can they hold on to eggs?!

Agree! She definitely lays coloured eggs but I think she looks like she has some Russian orloff in her. She's by far the smartest and friendly bird in the flock.

Not fertile, no. Right so I'll need to close the whole flock in the run I think for a few days. They will probably be very grumpy (there's space, they're just used to free ranging every day) but worth it if it trains her to lay where she's supposed to.

So my little olive egger pullet started disappearing each day and we've just been on a hunt and discovered her sitting on a clutch of 18 tiny olive eggs over in the neighbour's garden. She's been sneaking away to sleep on the clutch too the last three nights. My question is how do I now get...

She's had it like this for ages, months and months. I'll have a closer look and see if I I can spot any dirt in it. It doesn't look swollen though I don't think. I had wondered some kind of light sensitivity but don't know why that would affect one eye.

This chicken is perfectly happy and seems healthy in every other way - eating drinking, ranging with flock etc. Her other eye is totally fine and looks normal. However she's got one eye which she half closes - if she's interested in something she opens it wider. I can't see anything wrong with...

Thanks everyone, really appreciate the thoughts. Will read through all and work out what we're going to do.

Will look into that, thanks heaps. Hadn't thought of using a side hinged door.

We're keen to fit some sort of automatic door on our houses so when we're away we're only asking neighbours to pop up to collect eggs occasionally, rather than opening the door and closing it every day. We have two of these houses and everything I've seen online doesn't look like it would work...

So to update: she's spent two nights in the crate and this morning I let her out to stretch her wings and she is happily free ranging with the others. Thank goodness! She's still doing little broody clucks now and then but showing no interest in running back to the nesting boxes. Thanks for...

I had thought the same, that she would just cycle out of it and it would be kinder to let her do that. Unfortunately the other chickens were put off laying in the house when she was in there (which was all the time!) as she's a bit of an aggressive broody. We had one just go start laying...