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Any advice gladly received. My hen has a swollen eye we have been bathing now for nearly 2 weeks (doesn't seem to be contagious to the rest of the flock) she is also loosing quite a lot of feathers from her breast. Does anyone know what this is and how is can be cured??

Can anyone offer advice on what may be wrong with my hens eye? The rigt eye is very swollen as per the picture's

Hi everyone, my hen has laid the biggest egg I have ever seen... Is this natural???

Lucy giving my son his daily cuddle[/IMG][/IMG]

Very nice... A little fancier than mine.

Question I keep asking myself is... why has it taken me so long to get chickens!!!

Update to my original post, my bluebelle is still producing double yolk eggs every time... should I be worried???

I live in the UK and the temp on average today has been around 8-10c. Do I need to worry about them getting colds?

My wife has returned from work today at 3.30pm to let the girls out of their run to free range. The rain has not stopped all the time they have been free rangeing. We thought they may take cover when is got to bad but they have stayed out in the rain to the point that they were unrecognisable as...

I have been reading lots of threads over the past few weeks about chickens eating pretty much anything. This does not seem to be the case for my ladies all they seem to like is corn and layers pellets the list of tried treats is Lettuce Tomatoes Sprouting corn Bread crumbs Cereal Salad items...

They are huge too compared to the first 2 that she lay

Hi all Is it normal to have a hen that consistently lays double yolk eggs. I have a blue belle that is approx 21 weeks only and only just started laying 4 out of the 6 eggs she has laid have had double yolks. Is this normal??

Ruby, these calm, gentle quick one (bottom of the pecking order) Bella, the noisey one with insatiable appetite she is the look out for the group. Harriet, the leader of the gang, charges around like a rhino and feeds like a alligator. (Only one that is laying at the moment) Lucy, happy...

What you looking at !!!

Thank you all

Hi all can you please help I have noticed that one of my isa brown hens has a deformed toe just wanted to know if this was normal or not my other 3 do not appear to be the same. Hope you can see from this image

Thank you both

I bought these chickens 2 weeks ago as brown warrens however went back to the country store yesterday and they are advertising as columbian black tails? Sorry I am a newbie...

I bought these chickens 2 weeks ago as brown warrens however went back to the country store yesterday and they are advertising as columbian black tails? Sorry I am a newbie...

My friendliest has to be Bella our brown warren. Only had her a week. Is constantly chatting away when in the garden and always looking to see what you are upto