My chicken has a swelling on one leg and she can't put weight on her foot. Her other foot is slightly swollen, but not so bad. There is no evidence of bite marks. There are red spots and lumps on her skin. All the other birds have moulted and are ok, but she hasn't. She's taking food when I...
Lovely Cockerel I rescued this bird last year off someone who was going to kill him,
he is a mix, seen him take food to his hens, nice caring chap, not
sure of his age but needs a kind home
Maran Cockerel need a nice home, a young bird but, lost his virginity he knows what hens are for, to be looked after
and to give him rides round the garden
We have two gorgeous male sablepoots and we need to find a good home for them. We have a flock of 26 birds and the sablepoots are too gentle to be part of the main flock. We love them dearly, but we haven't got the facilities to keep them separate. They are free range and we have to let them...
Our garden had a chicken house and run already here when we moved in. Unfortunately they were built on the lowest part of the garden. Our chicken run is on clay soil and in rainy weather it is VERY muddy. The outside of the run is also very wet and muddy and the water drains into the run...
We have just got back from being away for a few weeks on holiday. Our hens were being looked after while we were away, but the person looking after them had not looked after hens before. While we were away we kept receiving messages to say that one hen had died, then another and then another...
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I have an unwell Leg bar, had her for over a year not sure of her age, but she looks as though she is getting on, up to 2 weeks ago she was laying eggs and eating ok, but
she then started laying eggs with no shells, often the shell less eggs would just bust and come out where ever...
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We have recently acquired two hens and one is a beautiful silkie. The silkie has what we think is scaly leg. We looked on this forum and read that coating the legs in oil is a good way to suffocate the mites that cause this problem. We coated both legs yesterday with cooking...
I have just received some shipped eggs from a well known auction site. I went to set them tonight and my wife dropped two of them. When they broke the contents were a mustard colour and the smell was like a stink bomb. We have now got all the windows open to try to clear the smell! These...
We have had one of our beautiful hens die this week. So sad. And now our gorgeous baby silkie cockerel is very poorly. He hasn't even got the strength to stand. He has eaten and had some water, but he is very lethargic. Our birds are all free range. They sleep in a big hen house at night...
We have a cuckoo maran who has (over night) started loosing her feathers, we have a shed for the coop and a large run off that, some chickens sleep outside an some inside, plus a camera set up so we can watch them from indoors, make sure all is well, the cuckoo a silkie an a 2 month old roo...
The first of 4 eggs has hatched, over night, under a broody hen, it looks like the hen is pecking the chick hard too, do I take the chick out and put it in the brooder, which is already warm or leave the chick alone, also how will the hen feed the chick if she does not get off the nest, there is...
I put some fertile eggs under a broody hen and there are just 3 days to go for hatching. This morning she got off long enough for them to change temperature. They were not cold, but only just luke warm. The hatch had swung shut with the wind after she got off the nest and went outside, so she...
Hello everyone,
I'm new to this site. so hello hope you have all had a good week, I'm sure I'll have lots of questions to ask!
We bought a mother and a chick 10 weeks ago and we want to know if the chick is male or female. Can anyone let me know?
Thank you.