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Hi, not been on here in ages! Just been out to my chickens and noticed one has something wrong with her beak. We had her at POL 2 months ago. She's eating, drinking and laying as normal and seems well in herself. Along the length of her beak is a slimy, jelly like, strip. I picked her up and...

I have decided to worm my 3 chickens but the dosage for Flubenvet is tiny! I read on another forum to use a pinch per chicken in a grape. This sounds much easier and i know they've got it! Does this sound ok? Anyone done it?

My 3 chickend knocked a weeks worth of food all over the floor last week. I swept it up and put it back in the hopper. It was 'dirty' ie had some bits of bedding and dry soil in with it. I didn't think they would bother as they eat other foods off the floor, but they didn't seem to eat much all...

We have 3 ex-battery hens, had them nearly a year. One is more nervous and always seemed 'older' than the other two. A few weeks ago she developed a squeaky cluck! It's the best i can explain it! It might not be linked but today she has her tail down and has been very quiet. I've seen her eating...

We have had 3 ex-battery chickens for 9mths, how easy would it be to add in another 2 or 3 chickens?

My husband and son spent the weekend putting up a fence to make a pen for our ex-battery hens. They just flew staight over it!!! I have just clipped their wings, i really hope this works, will it? Any other ideas to stop them escaping?!

I posted here a month ago that my 3 ex-battery hens were sleeping in their nesting boxes. As suggested i have been blocking off the nest boxes in the afternoon and after dark i've been lifting them onto the perch to roost. One is uausally up but i lift the others. Everyone thinks i'm mad...

We started at the begining of October and i'll just seen our first mini mealworms!! Cute! Hope they grow quick, my girls are hungry!!

Well i am new to chickens, had 3 ex-battery since august, but i think i've been a bit slow realising that the chickens are meant to roost at night! That is on the perch! Mine sleep in the nesting box! I have seen them on the perch, but less now its cold, they are always snuggled up together in...

I have a friend who lives down the road from me and also keeps chichens but has done for a lot longer than me! We have had 3 ex-battery chickens since August. She was saying hers stopped layong for the winter a few weeks ago. Mine are still laying almost everyday! She said she had heard...

I'm raising mealworms and they are starting to pupate! I've made it to the first stage! I've read the threads but i'm still unsure if to seperate them. I'd like to leave the whole life cycle in one container if possible. I only have 3 chickens so i have a small set up!

We've had our chickens for a couple of months now but in that time we've not had any real rain! So today we were out and it started to pour, i was interested to see if they would be in the dry coup or run when we got home. One was under the bench, ok, sensible. The other two had flown into the...

Hi! I'm new to this! My chickens are moulting, one has a pale crown which i know can be a sign of illness, or is it just the moult? She seems fine, eating etc! Thanks!

Really wasn't sure where to put this, didn't seem to fit anywhere! I was just wondering if anyone had turned vegetarian since keeping chickens? We have only had chickens for a couple of months. Before i thought they were a bit thick and not very intetresting! But of course they are very...

We are new to chickens and currently have 3 who have 'dirt' in their run and are free rage all during the day. They love the patch of garden which has bark chippings down so we bought some for the run. But i have been told by a friend of ours who keeps chickens and is a vet that it can have...

I'm new to chickens!! We have had our 3 ex-battery hens for about a month. We have never had 3 eggs on the same day and we get small white eggs and large brown eggs, so i'm sure one chicken isn't laying. I'm fairly sure which one isn't laying and shes the one who always jumps on an egg when...

Hi everyone!! Well, we've had our 3 ex-battery chickens, onion, marmalade and omlet for about a month now! I been on here for some advice so i thought i'd join! I knew nothing about chickens before but i think we are doing ok! Well we are getting eggs! My 12 year old son is a volunteer at a...