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I just got a four new hens, one is a Leghorn x Arucana, I have been watching them this morning and she is making a dreadful screeching jurassic park type noise while pacing around, hopping in and out of nest boxes and trying to get into one that is already occupied. Its an awful noise! Sounds...

bump, help! anybody???

Gretel my oldest chook has suddenly gone downhill. She seems to be limping and very unbalanced - drunk even, keeps sitting down on her bum and falling over. I think she is 4 years old.. but possibly nearly five. She has always been a very entertaining and friendly little buff and I love to...

Hi I have a flock of 7 chooks. Two RIRs who are laying well a couple of weeks into their second season, two pekins, one of which has started laying nice little eggs..they are in their third season, a silkie/amercana bantie and two BAs who are proving to be a bit of a let down. They should be...

encourage her to take them, otherwise they should be fine for a while, remember when a chook is getting a clutch together they sit and wait for a while before she has got enough to sit on and hatch. You can test them by putting them in water. If they float they are bad, if they sink they should...

I have two of the blighters! Both enormous Black Australorps. They are beautiful but useless freeloaders at the moment. They both started laying at around 32 weeks old, but just laid occasional large double yolkers with thin shells in odd places, like in the middle of the lawn or in the flower...

I have 7 chooks in a lovely coop with a deep litter floor. As we are at the beginning of autumn here several of the chooks have started their molt and the coop is awash with feathers. As you know with deep litter you don't really clean it out that often but allow it to build up and insulate...

the cups do look like a good idea. Anyway, so yesterday following the suggestion to remove their other water after letting them have a drink, the RIRs started to figure out how to do it! yay. I thought I would just keep an eye on them to make sure no-one was getting too badly dehydrated. This...

thank you, perhaps I will try that.

So a couple of weeks ago, I finally sourced some nipples to put in the bottom of a bucket to water the chooks. After some diy of which i was very proud I installed the waterer in their run and tapped their beaks against them as instructed by some people here to teach them how to use it. I have...

bah! no eggs at all on Sunday! then only 2 rir and 1 pekin today. unimpressed!

the other day I was trawling for ideas on how to get my BA's to start laying again. they are just coming up 1 year old and only started when they were 9 months but both had stopped for several weeks and one also went broody for a couple of weeks. I found the thread on feeding black pepper. Some...

I don't think feeding them something different for one night is really going to make any difference, they will probably enjoy the treat.. and they don't really eat at night anyway, well mine don't, they sleep. Just give them what you can and put them back on normal feed tomorrrow.

My BAs lay speckledy eggs like that. I like them I think they are pretty!

I'm getting some huge ones at the moment too. quite strange.. they make all the other ones in the basket look small! I seem to get a wrinkly shell if one of my girls does a great big one.. anyone else have that problem? - its hard, just looks wrinkled in places.

oh, now a Shi***u is called a Poop-sue!

I have lost too many chickens to roaming neighbourhood dogs including pit bulls, bulldogs and even a little poop-sue to ever consider having my own one and I would certainly never put chickens in an enclosure with them. It only takes one bite to get a taste for chicken and then it would be open...

mine started last week, they are 29 weeks old. It is mid spring here. they seem to be quite weird tho, I have two whom I cannot tell apart as they are identical, so I have finally given up waiting on a distinguishing feature on either of them and just named them both Sheila and Sheila!, neither...

you have to remind yourself as I do, that chickens brains are very small! I have a queue for the preferred nest-box in my coop as well, I have 7 chooks, sometimes one RIR and one bantam end up in there together or there is often one or two sitting up on the perch waiting for their turn. I have...

well. I went out to get the laundry in this afternoon and found a large brown speckldy egg just sitting on the ground right outside the kitchen window. Strange creature! Still won't squat for me though! Its a beautiful egg!