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I've taken photos with my phone but not sure how to get them to here! I'll keep her separate for a couple of days and see how she goes, Thanks :)

Hi - I have 4 chicks, not sure on age but I'm guessing about 10 weeks, I think I have 2 hens and 2 roosters as the boys are already showing signs of fighting and square-ing up to each other! 1 girl is smaller (the other hen is a similar size to the boys but isn't interested in their sparring...

Hi - its been a while since I was on here but its nice to be back! I now want to get into ducks and got an incubator (covatutto 6) and tried to hatch out my 1st lots of "ebay" eggs - none were fertile so thinking maybe too early in season? My bator wouldnt get to 100 and stayed around 97/98...

Hi I have been very lucky with my girls and havent had to come on here for a while but I now have a poorly looking ISA Brown. I have had her about 18 months and she was POL when I got her, (I lost my other brown about 6 months after I got them) She is looking sad, paler comb than normal...

Hi A few questions that i'd like answered please! Can you keep ducks and chickens in the same pen? Do ducks really need a pond or is just a small amount of water needed to keep nostrils clean and prean etc? Can hens successfully hatch out baby ducks? Thanks Hannah

Subject says it all....?? H x

I have 4 hens (all laying) and 2 chicks i hatched out, the "chicks" (one roo one pullet) were 16 weeks old so i started them on layers and put the run next to the girls run for about a week, then one night at dusk, put the 2 "chicks" in the hen house and let them all out the next day together as...

Sorry - didnt mean to be rude I have since found a local vet that deals in farm animals more so that the average vet so will give them a call in the am to see what their protocal is. Thanks for your replys H x

10 people have looked at my post and cant answer me.....? Silkie?!?!

One of the chicks I hatched out (13 weeks old now) is pooing clear/white with lumps of pinkish red stuff in it - is this signs of cocci?? She is ruffled and doesnt seem very happy and I gather this is a sign as well?? Anything I can do? Its just her and what I think is a roo with her in a...

Thanks for quick reply silkie! It was gross but i have checked her poo for worms but nothing to be seen! H x

Have posted this before but cant find it!!! I have one hen who is fine in herself - eats and drinks with the other 3 but looks smaller than the rest and also her comb has never grown and gone a "hen red" like the other girls. I worm them as per worming instructions and that hasnt helped and...

Just wondered how you all cope with the rain and your coops?? Mine is half covered so they can get shelter (big run - cant free range ) but the rest of it is just mud mud and more mud, i use wood shavings to try and soak it up a bit but any ideas on anything else?? Thanks H x

Hi - i've got 2 chicks which are now about 8 weeks old that i hatched out myself (so no quarantine, right?) how and when do i put them with the older girls (about 6 months old)?? Think one is a roo and one is a girl so happy with that as i have 4 girls already! Thanks H x

oh yeah!!!! I havent any roosters but have noticed she is spending time in the hen house when my isa (who is laying) goes in to lay her egg, taking tips i guess! Choc brown eggs here i come!!

just squat down when i walked into the coop to feed them and was REALLY happy to be stroked?? Is this normal? It was lovely but wondered if she was worried or nervous? Thanks H x

..... I guess they still need a light even though the chicks are 5/6 weeks old now?? How do you make your brooder lights safe outside in all weathers?? Thanks H x

If you can take the buck out cos they eat the babies if they feel threatened by the male, good luck with the other doe if she is pregnant H x

This is the latest piccie of my 2 chicks i hatched, batfink thinks his new tv is great! Looking like they are both roo's so the cornish x will go the way of roo's but because a few of you have said the larger one is a leghorn, he's been called foggy and dh wont eat a childhood hero!!!!

Hi - my chicks are 3 weeks old and 4 weeks old, very nearly fully feathered but they are getting too big for the brooder really, i put them in the sunshine in a run some days but really they need to be outside all the time, i live in the uk so its averaging 10'C during the day and 4-5'C at...