Hi there - no, no issues whatsoever. We are living in the countryside where it is clean, lots of fresh grass, air, no mud or anything. Poop, eyes, breathing, feathers everything is normal - it's just to do with laying. We had 0 problems with them until the first started laying. It laid soft...
Hey! Thanks for responding - yeah, I just feel guilty that I'm responsible for them but couldn't keep them alive. But you're right - I'll deff be learning to be more diligent when they are laying! I'm not sure because I don't speak French but I'll ask mu hubby to ring tomorrow and ask. Otherwise...
Hi there - thanks for the welcome and the response! Unfortunatly we had to cull her a few days ago :-( but now I have another-one passing away on only its second day of laying. I have her in her box in my living room right now in a warm quiet spot. Turns out you need to feed your chooks Oyster...
Thanks for taking the time to reply! She's really struggling and by the looks of it will pass away soon :-( No, there was no blood on her egg. I poked my finger up her butt (ick I know) and couldn't feel an egg and also had her sitting in a warm bath and fed her yoghurt with crushed egg shells -...
Wello,
thought I'd introduce myself briefly - my husband and I recently moved to France and we have two (we started off with four......) whiter Leghorn hens that are six months old called Nanna Stubs (who was a runt and died for no reason R.IP. stubsy), Blackfoot (who we had to cull from...
Hi all,
six months ago we bought 4 white leghorn chickens and after months trawling through BC every time I was unsure of something I finally decided to sign up!
So we bought 4 female white with red comb leghornes (according to the lady we bought them from they are from Tuscany and great...