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Our cockrell is pretty elderly (almost 7 years). In his early days he was very fiesty - I have the scar to prove it! - but in the past year or so has lost much of his bounce. In recent days he has struggled to walk, especially when first released into the run, falling on to his belly and...

Our 4-y-o cockerel has a raw, bald pink patch under his wattles; also his rear end is bright pink too. Other than not being as sprightly as he once was he doesn't seem to have other issues. Anything to worry about? I can take better pics later when he's roosting if needs be ... Thanks H

Hi We have 8 hens and a rooster about 3 years old which we have raised from hatching. I think they're RI reds. About a year ago we added a pair of buff orpingtons and a pair of australorps. These were initially timid but are fairly well integrated now. About 3 weeks ago we added 4 leghorns...

We have nine hens and a cockrell. 5 of the hens and the rooster were raised together and are now 3 years old. We added two buffies and 2 autralorps last autumn. One of the hens from the original batch is behaving oddly. I imagine she's ill. She's quite, but not desperately, slow. About a...

Hi One of our hens seems in a bad way. Yesterday I found her by a tree with her head on the ground. She stayed there until the others attacked her then moved. I was on the point of dispatching her but Mrs Harlequin wanted me to wait until she had gone out, so I moved her (the hen, not Mrs...

Simultaneous with a (failed) incubator attempt, one of our hens got broody. The end result was distressing and I wondered for any pointers on where we might have gone wrong. She started with 8 eggs, which we marked. Even though I inadvertently smashed one,she ended up with 10 so obviously...

Hi, I've seen posts about this before, but no definitive answers. We have one of these. They're Italian. Doubtless brilliant, but we have zero idea how to use it as we don't understand Italian, and the English-translation manual is absolutely comical in its inscrutability. (Those old enough...

Our cockrell had quite a bad injury to his comb earlier this year. With the advice and support of this forum we isolated him while it healed and re-introduced him successfully. The comb flops over his eye, to the extent that he seems to have limited vision, so he always turns around to look...

I have 6 eggs in an incubator. Seems to be going nicely: candling looks OK; a 7th egg unfortunately cracked but contained a well-developing embryo. I started 2 weeks ago today, so today is Day 15. Due to bad planning on our part, they are due to hatch next weekend when we will be elsewhere...

Hi Our cockrell/rooster is bleeding from his comb. We don't know why: a fight with a predator we suppose. He's lost his normal assertiveness and is a bit jumpy. The hens were pecking at his injury. We've isolated him. Please may you experts advise: 1. Should we try to clean the injury up...

Hi We hatched 9 hens and a cockrell in March (and added 4 more from friends who moved house and couldn't re-house theirs). We built a run and put their original cage in it. My wife also paid over £200 (they saw her coming!) for a lovely coop. All of the chickens roost on top of the old cage...