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Hi all, One of my pair of little barbu d’uccles has started extending her neck and gasping. She seems to be struggling to get air, classic gaping. She is off her food, no time for food if you can’t breathe, right? Somewhat legthargic. The sad truth of the matter is that we don’t have any...

One of my silkies has become lethargic over the past few days. Not running for treats with the rest of the flock. Sitting alone and isolated. I had a look at her today and noticed all the feathers around her vent are heavily matted with poo, there was a poo sticking out a little and her vent...

Hi all, So I’m into my second year of ownership here in the UK, enduring Flockdown 22. I thought I’d ask for a little advice. I know egg production is meant to fall dramatically in winter - shorter days and cold - but we haven’t had a single egg in 3+ months. My flock is mostly bantams and...

Hi all, For the international readers here in the UK we’re struggling with avian flu and need to keep our flocks under cover for the next few months. I moved my free range flock inside their coop and run a couple of weeks ago (pictures attached) and one of the Pekins looks in a bad way. My...

Hi all, Our little flock of bantams has expanded and we’re going to need a bigger coop. My current plan is to buy the below keter plastic shed, and add ventilation, roosting bars, poop board, nesting boxes and swap over out automatic door and feeder/drinker. Just wondering if anyone has...

Hi team, I have a couple of silkies raised from chick. One with a surrogate, but she rejected the other and I had to raise her by hand. Nursed back to life on raw egg, enemas for impacted poo and all the usual shenanigans for small solo chicks. I eventually reintroduced her very slowly and...

Hey team, For reasons I’ll not go into (see my other thread) I’ve had to put a 3 day old chick back under my broody hen after a couple of days away. Not her chicks, but she adopted 2 others of the same brood without fuss. Sadly the latest chick is spending the whole time hiding under mama as...

I’ve just adopted 4 x day old silkie chicks to my broody pekin but she rejected one and gave her a fairly stern pecking. I managed to save her and get it into the brooder, but am not sure if she’ll survive. Any thoughts? Pictures attached. Her head was fairly badly pecked with some blood, which...

Hi All, My Pekin Bantam has been rubbish at sitting on eggs, but might she be a better mother?? My pekin went broody for the first time a couple of weeks ago. She’s fairly young, having only been hatched herself last September. I bought some fertile eggs for her to sit on and she’s been...

My my diligent broody silkie has been sitting on 6 fertile eggs for 9 days, but I think they’re all blanks! Just candled them, photos below, am I missing something? Number 2 looks like it may have a shadow but no development of note. Eggs were sourced on eBay. Thoughts? The seller has...

One of my girls (black silkie) is sittting on 6 fertilised eggs in the nest box of my raised coop. Last time we raised chicks it wasn’t a problem as I only had 2 mature birds and both were broody - they did a lovely job of mixed parenting. Now I have 3 non-broody adolescents sharing the coop...

Hello, Following on from reading a few threads, I decided to resurface my 3mx3m chicken run - it was just soil and turned into a bit of a mud bath in the rain. I’ve used a granular dust. It’s an aggregate from a local landscaper which is basically a course sand. Individual particles are about...

Hi all, I’ve joined and introduced myself on the other thread. Hello! :frow We had our flock of 4 birds (2 Silkies, 2 bantam brahmas) reduced to just the Silkies by a fox, so we’ve recently hatched 3 eggs so the girls have now been joined by a polish and 2 Perkins. Lovely birds! Pictures...

Hi all, Just a short hello to introduce my little flock. We had our flock of 4 birds (2 Silkies, 2 bantam brahmas) reduced to just the Silkies by a fox, so we’ve recently hatched 3 eggs so the girls have now been joined by a polish and 2 Perkins. Lovely birds! Picture below (if it’ll let me...