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My rooster was found dead this morning, huge Rhode Island Red. He was fine yesterday evening dead at 8 this morning. I performed a basic autopsy on his organs and all looked fine. Food in hi stomach , but nothing in his crop. fat deposits over the muscle and internally. He looked in fine...

Hope so cos the dog just had a portion and I've frozen the rest! 8 more dinners there. Sad though cos he was a beautiful rooster and I loved hearing him crowing in the morning, he was adorable, he free ranged in his 100 metre enclosure with his girls and he would coming running across to me...

He was just like he was asleep, but dead. I hung him up and skinned and gutted him, nothing obvious wrong with him. So I roasted him in the oven for the dogs and he smells delicious, I thought this was a fitting tribute to him, but I suddenly wondered, is he safe to eat? Quick someone let me...

My ten chickens, ex bats, are now only producing 1 - 4 eggs per day now. Its spring, they are approx two years old. 2 are not laying at all and have been separated from the group as they were being bullied, tails plucked raw. They now free range on the farm and look well and run about happily...

I got 8 eggs from 10 chickens (and one rooster). That's the best ever so far from my brood, maybe the rooster who arrived 2 weeks ago is making them happy! Normally I get between 5 - 6 eggs per day! Its winter in the Scottish Highlands and we only getting around 8.5 hrs of light per day, I feed...

He was fine this morning, he had gone in with the girls, but hubby acknowledges that he is huge and that we need to build a bigger coop!.

Just a bit worried in case being so crowed they fight. The hen house is supposed to take 12! but cant see it myself, though hubby says its ok. Anyone else got a hen house like this?

Mine loved the smoked salmon trimmings, I thought it would give me an upset tum, as smoked salmon does that to me even if its one day over due, so........ I try them on allsorts of things now and the only things they do not really like is onions and leeks. Everything else scoffed in seconds!

Hes not socialised yet, so not been able to catch him, he only arrived at 3pm and its dark by 5pm atm.

The coop is only about 3 mtrs square inside, but it says its designed for 12 chickens! outer enclosure is another ten mtrs and then the free range bit where they are let out in the morning is 50 cubic metres surrounded by electric fencing.

I put him on a piece of rubber backed carpet, and surrounded the sides with wood panels so in effect he is in an extension of the coop now, but there is no perch' til tomorrow. He seems happier. Its not so cold now temps about 2 degrees.

My new RIR rooster arrived today and he is reluctant to go in the hen coop as firstly, there are ten hens in there, and also he is about the size of three hens, enormous ! Also they are not too friendly towards him yet as there was a bit of fighting at first, now they are keeping out of his...

Oh thank you, I reckon they'll go mad for it!

I have rather a lot of old (3 days out of date) smoked salmon left over from Christmas. Can I feed this to my flock safely? I've cooked and flaked the smoked salmon. Seems a pity to waste it.

Sorry what is Mothers?

Its the cause of the diahorrea, that I am a concerned about primarily, its an internal problem I suspect. She is the only one with any problem. I am new to chicken management so was hoping others may be familiar with this problem. They have all been in moult as well but the others have all grown...

One of my ten rescue chickens has a severely bald, red, mucky, faeces covered bottom. She appears quite well in all other ways, eating well, laying and running about the enclosure all day foraging. She is a little small and perhaps skinny but quite strong when I pick her up. I washed her back...

Thanks you everyone! Appreciate your feedback. Yeah, I spent until 3 am reading stuff on this forum its so very informative. I am very fond of my chickens but I am not naming them, to me they are just chickens. They are having a very good life to the one they had before, even the one that had...

Thank you, I hope I will not be too much in the minority, being a chicken eater! but I will be honest. I think I will find it hard to dispatch them, but I must be true to my moral code. I do not like to eat supermarket chickens as I am very aware how they suffer, and I cannot deal with that, so...

I am a newbie to chickens, and am hoping to learn lots about raising chickens in a cold climate, it -12 tonight! I have ten rather sorry looking hens that I got for free, plus their large hen house. I have had my chickens about a month and they are already bursting with health and looking so...