We'd really like to hatch eggs from our 2 year old Lemon Cuckoo Orpington Hens, we have seprated them from our other hens, but haven't got any eggs yet.
I think they have just finnished moulting. We put a light in their coop about 6 days ago (incase they stopped laying because of less daylight...
As I said to jessicaagross a rescue center organised it and asked for people to adopt them ... they are based in Ireland if you live in Ireland I can give you their facebook address.
A animal rescued centre based in dublin did a big hen rescue and they shared on the internet looking for people to adopt them and we found out about it and they did drop offs all around Ireland and we picked them up ... they were 16 months so too old to lay enough for them unfortunately the farm...
A few weeks ago I rescued these 5 ex-battery hens Ruby Zeeza Sacha Mississipi and Felicity and I thought you might like to see some photos of them........ !
Here are them now .....
Mississipi
Sassy
Mississipi and Ruby
Zeeza and Sacha
Before and After (three weeks of...
Thanks chooks4life I've 2 coconuts and I was planning to give them half of one to see if they like it and if they do give them another bit in a week or 2 ?I have coconut oil I could also give then.Thanks for your reply :-) BTW We've 14 large breed chickens 3 of whom are roosters :-)
Thanks aart...