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Thank-you for your kind reply, it has been very wet lately, and we have had some frost, but all my birds sit on perches to roost, I check them every night the run is under cover with a wooden floor, when I'm at home ill let them run around on the grass, which is every day mostly, but the grass...

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

Legbar cockerel hatched early 2014, loving home needed with some nice hens to service,

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...

Thanks for your reply Donrae Yes a few feathers on the legs, and mud where he has been chasing the hens, I took him off a friends friend, who was going to kill him, to eat, can't take any more though, I have 5 roos, 22 hens, 2 chicks, which may be roos too have to see

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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...

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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...

Realsis Thank-you so much for your help, her abdomen feels normal, and yes there was extra fluid in there when I put up this notice for help, I have checked her all over for any clues, breathing seems fine, no cough or sneezing, her muscles are soft but then she has been doing nothing for...

Hello Dubya Could you take the bird to the vets for an anti jab, and maybe stitch the skin back together,

Morning All 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...

Hello everyone, 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...

Hello to the kind people in Alabama, Thank you for your contact and kind words. Sadly our little cockerel didn't survive. He was a very handsome little silkie and we miss him, especially his little antics that were so amusing. We took him to the vet and we were given critical care...

Hello Ellie Mae, We gave our chickens a light dusting with powder containing permethrin and two of our birds died. They were young and healthy and we think they got it in their mouths by preening. Possibly yours have done the same? We took our birds to the vet and we were given critical...

Hello Suzy Thank-you for your kind words, no I never done the hen house, but will in the morning

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...