Hi everyone
For your info I'm in Australia and its Autumn.
i haven't been on here for a while. I do need some advice though. My girls are healthy and appear happy and one is just going through a massive moult. I've just read the article on moulting and now Ill sleep tonight as its put my mind...
Hi everyone
Thanks so much for the help so far. I have 2 broody chickens and 1 non broody one at the moment. If I leave them to it in the nesting boxes they have chosen and go in there 3 or 4 times a day to get them out to eat, drink and poop (which they are doing quite happily even though they...
Hi all
I havent been on the forum for quite a long time but I do have a question now. Ill just introduce the girls first.
I have 3 girls. All bantams of sorts. Mrs frizzle is a frizzle bantam, she looks like a ball of grey and white fluffy crinkly lace, the oldest girl and the smallest (but...
Mrs frizzle (my bantam frizzle) has has 2 batches of chickens before and has been broody for at
least 2 weeks. She sits on a small stone in the nest each day. I lift her out every day for some food and although she growles she does eat and then has a dust bath in the sun then goes back to the...
Im pretty sure after looking at pictures and reading articles on the intrrnet that mrs frizzle has fowl pox. She has crusty black lesions on her comb, wattle and round her eye and gas started shaking her head. I also have noticed that she is rattling when she breathes the kast couple of days...
Mrs frizzle age unknown, perhaps 18 months, sat on 4 eggs. 3 of the babies at 10 weeks old now given away as they were roosters. We can keep roosters in the metro area. The last baby, i also think is a male, fingers crossed for a female, is about 12 or 13 weeks old and still tries to squeeze...
Hi fellow bird lovers
I have two little girls, white leghorns, supposed to be about the same age but one is developing faster so must be about 3 weeks older. So I'm guessing that Meryl is about 17 weeks and Beryl (bossy Beryl) is about 15 weeks. About 6 days ago Meryl (my favourite) started to...