Many thanks for all the helpful advice and guidance - seems like a great forum!
The girls appeared to be fine and dandy this morning. I noticed on another correspondence thread that hens like cherry tomatoes - I gave ours the remnants of my crop - seemed to cheer them up no end!
Getting a...
We are new to keeping hens having just started with 3 buff orpingtons last week.
Tonight, on going to the hen house, we saw one of our (two) domestic cats emerging from the hen house. Our three girls were cowed inside a nest box - silent and presumably extremely distressed. However, there is...