Hi Everybody. Hope someone can help me here..
My little Silkie ( Moppit ) became ill almost 2 weeks back. Scouring badly with a milky watery bowel, not interested in food, and preferring to sit or squat for most of the time. She hardly walked anywhere but was alert enough. She would...
I purchased 3 chickens from a breeder ( Victoria, Australia ) ... a Barnevelder, RIR, and Welsummer ... and added 2 more chickens 4 weeks younger than the first 3 from another breeder - a Silkie and an Araucana ( Australian bred ). The first 3 are 23 weeks old and second 2 are 19 weeks old...
I purchased 3 birds in October 2011 when they were about 8 weeks old. A Barnevelder, RIR and Welsummer. The Welsummer has grown up to be the largest chicken, but her comb barely grows at all. She has a very large crop and although she doesn't like much being picked up, once she is...
I am a newbie at having chickens in the back garden ( in runs ). They are let outside at around 11 am each day into runs which they have successfully already destroyed ( any grass that was there is no longer ). They are put to bet at 6.30 pm. So they are more free range than anything...