Hi all, I'm getting quite a few shelless eggs even though I'm feeding oyster and egg shell. BHWT suggested zocal d for a calcium boost. Bottle says the dose, but doesn't say how many days to repeat for. Does anyone know? Thanks.
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One of my chickens has produced the thing below!!! It's about an inch across, was very rubbery when I tried to break it in half and is full of white goo and whiter grainy stuff. Is this an undeveloped egg or something more serious? They are ex-batts and are about 2.5/3 years old now.
The days are getting shorter which means the girls are putting themselves to bed earlier each day. Over the winter it will be dark 15 hrs a day.
Do I need to put water or food inside the eglu to get them through til morning? It seems such a long time without. Will they even see it if I do...
My three precious ex-bats were all very poorly on Monday. I described symptoms and poops to the vet and the brilliant British Hen Welfare Trust helpline and they both thought it was coccidiosis.
The vet couldn't prescribe small dose drugs so it has taken until today to get some Coxoid which I...
I've had my ex-bats 4 weeks now. Pecking order was sorted but about a week ago they started pecking eachothers backs, esp round the base of each others tails. They are now all doing it and all have red sore bits and bleeding stumpy quills.
I started them on smallholder range layers pellets...
I have just got my first chickens - three tatty ex-bats called Tinker, Fraidy and Lola). One of them (who was the boss) is being pecked at the base of her tail where she has no feathers and it's really red and sore looking. I've tried Nettex Anti-peck but it doesn't seem to be making any...