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I had an old blind chicken for a couple of years, she was part of a batch of 10 given to me when their owner became ill. Sadly she was getting pecked a lot so we made her her own area with hut and indoor and outdoor space. I then got a chick from a nearby farmer which I raised with her as a...

No lice or mites, breathing normally and cleans eyes. She loves mealworms.

She sat in the passenger side footwell and listened quietly till she fell asleep!

Thank you so much for this reply. Her feet don't look out of the ordinary and she's walking around ok. I couldn't see any lice or mites but didn't look closely as I figured she needed to settle in first. Watermelon is a good idea... she's had warm porridge and an apple as treats so far.

Driving along the motorway yesterday (uk M4) and there was a little chicken. Just stood there. So I stopped on the hard shoulder... walked back... and after some shenanigans they let me pick them up. There was a very dead (and very flat) chicken there that they had been stood by poor little...

My old boy died in my arms this evening. We think he was about 8 years old, he'd been with us nearly 5 years. He was acting a bit odd yesterdaywhen I went to lock them up, normally he stands up and lets me stroke his back and crows. Then he stayed in the hut today, so at 6pm we took him some...

Yes....my roosters are both big.... could have been horrible.

I got to the field early last night. No chickens. I could see that the coop doors were still open.... but no chickens. As i got closer i could see that all 24 chickens were stuffed into one corner of the coop, all fighting to be at the back. "Oh crap" i thought and ran in to find.... ...a teeny...

Treacle is 11 months old and at least some of the girls accept it. Some of the older ones give him a peck.

We have a flock of 22 hens and 2 roosters. The older rooster (Dot) is about 4 years old and has been alpha for about 3 years. Originally his flock was 9 hens. Last year we let some broodies sit and got 1 male and 10 females...plus we bought 3 more girls. Now the beta rooster (Treacle) is adult...

Our originals are Florence and Felicity, Clara, Becky, Sharon, Brittany, Pippa, Henrietta (who sadly died), Daisy and Dot the rooster. Dot was called Dot because as a chick he had a white blob on his head. We have just had two more hatch - the first also had a blob so we have called him/her...

Anxious Hen is now bak on her own eggs in a separate hut. Sensible Hen is back on her own eggs with Dash. We have removed the dead chick. I notice one of the other eggs is starting to hatch. This is our first time doing this and i am so bloody stressed.

Oh rats it gets worse. One had hatched and been killed by anxious hen.

I arrived up the field at 8:30 to discover that the new chick...Dash... had decided to go for a walk and his poor mum (Sensible Hen) had left the other eggs to look after him. Anxious Hen had then left HER eggs to sit on Sensible Hens eggs. Anxious Hens eggs were pretty cold when i got here and...

Well we have a chick! The sensible broody hen (as opposed the the mentally cross broody hen and the anxious broody hen that would die of thirst and hunger if I wasn't pipetting water into her each day and risking my fingers to hand feed her) has had a little black chick with a white spot on its...

My other half has just said "Ok so they can have a bachelor pad with a bar and a poule table". Funny man......

Hi I am new here and have had chickens for just under 12 months now having got them from a friend in the village who was moving abroad. I have 9 hens and a cockeral (called Dot). Three of the hens went broody about 3 weeks ago; two of them have been getting up twice a day to feed, drink and poo...