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UH-OH! Took the opportunity of checking Betty more closely today and she DOES have some spiky quills on her head which COULD be lice I guess. Her pal Margo also has some whitish feathers. The two new girls show no signs - as yet. I guess a touch of lice spray would not hurt. I don't fancy...

Thanks for responding Judy. No I can't see anything like that (phew!) AND I am wearing my new glasses! All her other feathers seem lovely, strong and shiny and she has a particularly fine set of tail feathers following a soft moult. Her appetite is fine and she is lively enough (although has...

My otherwise healthy and happy hen seems to be showing head and neck feathers that are white at the root. She is no particular breed (she came from a local farm so is kind of a mix) but is her colouring is golden brown rather like a Buff Orpington. Any ideas what this could be? She's pretty...

Update update! Had two lovely and completely normal eggs today spall back to normal I guess! Phew!

Oh I just re read that message! The hens have been laying since last October. I meant they have started laying daily after a break since the end of April.

I have two young hens who have just started laying daily (about a week ago) after various traumas such as dog attack; broodiness (both but one longer than the other) and a soft moult. Yesterday's collected two eggs at around 2pm and when I went out with their breakfast at around 8 am I...

Coincidentally I have just put out a small bowlful of whey for my two hens which was some of the left overs from making feta cheese. I thought they might not take to it immediately but they practically pushed me out of the way (see how I resisted the temptation to spell that 'whey'!) to get at...

Well I am in the Isle of Man (Great Britain) and while it is sunny it is certainly not up to Texas standards! Nonetheless, one of my girls is lying on her side with one leg extended, her wings slightly raise and her beak slightly parted as she pants in the 'heat". What a Drama Queen!

Just a quick update (particularly for Scratch'n'peck) I turfed the girls out of their Eglu this morning and cleaned it all out and then firmly shut the door. After some initial grumbling and broody clucking they gave up and just pecked around the garden and dustbathed as usual. Now they are...

Thanks scratch'n'peck! I think I kinda knew that deep down - just needed someone to confirm/support etc! Tomorrow I will boot the girls out of the coop first thing and close them out all day. Then I'll remove the goose eggs; thoroughly clean the coop (it's a plastic Eglu one so won't take...

About 36 days ago a friend gave me two goose eggs (which she did not know were fertile or not) to put under my broody hen in an effort to distract her while I re-introduced her injured pal into the coop. I have only two chickens. It worked like a charm - and the injured hen even started laying...

Hi Earthlove I just wondered how Cotton was doing? My Betty (attacked by a dog about 15 days ago ) now seems to be doing very well. She had some deep wounds that needed suturing and lost pretty much all the feathers on her back save for one tail feather . However she went back in the roost...

Just a quick update on my chooks! The injured one (Betty) just took it upon herself to go back into the coop - whether the broody one (Margo ) liked it or not! Both hens are now happily together as they were before the dog attack. A friend gave me a couple of fertile GOOSE eggs for M to sit...

Hi. I have only two hens and one (Margo) went broody after a dog attack nearly took out her roost mate (Betty) last Saturday (it's Friday today) Margo has been stolidly clinging to the nestbox (both girls are in an Eglu) and I have been putting food and water in there for her. I need to get...

There;s a joke there somewhere AmberRex - but it's 11 pm over here and my funny bone is going to sleep - shortly to be followed by the rest of me!

Don't tempt me to start a chick farm! I would LOVE to but really do not have the room! Plus we are pretty much in the middle of a bird sanctuary and I have seen too many chicks picked off by hawks and seagulls down in the village My instinct is to let it run its course - so long as she is...

Thanks for responding AmberRex. Is it possible that a trauma has sparked off broodiness I wonder? Should I lift her out of the nestbox and make her go outside or should I just continue to let her get on with it?

Don't know settingdusk. I open up the back of the Eglu and put the cat carrier with the door as close as possible to it so they can see and hear each other. Hope that it helps but am really just going on instinct here! Thanks for responding!

I've just posted about my hen attacked by a dog asking for advice! So I don't have any to give you but just wanted to express solidarity as it were! My Betty was attacked on Saturday morning and is under the Vet for antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. This morning she seems brighter and...