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Thanks! She does have a small cut on the back of her leg, I'm waiting until she roosts for the night (only an hour away now) and then I'll get her, clean it more, put some anti-bacterial cream on her and bandage it up. On the advice of a friend, I'll keep her bandaged for a couple days to keep...

My Scot's Dumpy bantam hen somehow got out of the Omlet netting around their coop, and got caught in a rat trap!!! I'll take her to the vet tomorrow as soon as it's open, but is there anything I can/should do tonight?? Her leg was caught just above the "elbow" joint, there's a wound and the...

My little Scots Grey, Elsie, has a large section of her neck feathers completely plucked this morning! You can't see how big it is so well from any one picture, but it goes all the way around her neck up the other side, leaving only a small patch untouched at the top where you can see...

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Personally I'd go for the "old" hens, at 2 or 3 years old there are plenty of laying years left in them. I'm always shocked by how early people cull their hens, but then I'm just a big softy like that! I suppose it comes down to what your goals are in keeping the hens, for pure egg production...

I was a bad chicken parent, too! I got my two Silkie boys before I had a coop, and they lived in my shed with some moveable netting to give them outdoor space. I had to get them fast because they were going to be euthanised if I didn't pick them up ASAP, so I think they've forgiven me! What...

I have 8 pullets, and for a while only one hen was laying, so I knew exactly what egg was hers, but now two more have started up and I'm stumped! Below is a link to a photo I took of the eggs we're getting now. I couldn't figure out how to embed the image in the post, sorry! Maybe I don't...

Well Lily got out again this afternoon, and I've worked out what she's up to - she's getting out to lay her eggs in our shed! I found one on top of the bin bag of dirty shavings this morning that must have been there since that night she got out. And then today she was making her egg song...

Quote: That's our plan for if she gets out again. We just didn't have a chance to get netting before, and now that she's staying in again we'll see how it goes! Thanks, though, I think that'll be ideal if she won't stay in any other way.

Pele: Well we do actually live on a farming estate! It's just that we rent from the landowner and thus can't take over large portions of the estate for the chickens. There are several hundred dopey pheasants running loose around the estate which survive predation well, so I think she would...

Lily didn't escape tonight, we put black plastic (from a bin bag split into a sheet) over the coop roof. There was no good way to hang up CDs, so we'll see if this works instead. It seems like every new thing we try puts her off for a day or two, but then she's back at it! So this question is...

Avonlea22 - We live in rural Fife, in central Scotland just north of Edinburgh. My husband is Scottish, but I'm actually a Massachusetts girl! Moved over here permanently when we got married last October.

Thanks for your advice, but we're definitely not eating her, she's too sweet and I got them to be egg-laying members of the family, not dinner! She doesn't properly free-range, because we have a shared garden and no fences, but they graze in the 12 metre Omlet netting which gives them a good...

Hi there, I haven't had chickens very long but I'm obsessed already - just ask my husband! I sort of just fell into keeping two Silkie Bantam cockerels to begin with, since the gamekeeper at the deer park I work at showed up one day with two dog crates of cockerels a local vet had handed over...

My light sussex bantam pullet, Lily, keeps trying to escape, clipped wing and all! It started pretty much the very first night we got her, when the rest of them were heading into the coop she decided she'd much rather sit on the coop roof, and from there leapt to a stone wall on the other side...