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How old is she? This time of the year a lot of them go off laying (comes with the cold weather). They stop laying, may or may not moult, then start laying again as the days get longer again (after the 21st of June). Once they're past a certain age - usually between 2 and 3 - their laying can...

not at the moment - mine is working great for a change! If you really want to do something good for your chickens "scraps" wise. Build your compost heap in their pen. They scratch around and turn it over, get any worms or bugs that come up through the base and anything that you think looks a...

I got a really good christmas present......I had two goslings hatch - last ones for the season.

They often loose feathers when they go broody. If you feel along her breast it will probably be bare - this gives them closer body contact with the eggs and by default alows them to warm them more effectively. If she is no longer broody they should grow back. Sometimes they don't lay again for...

Hi animal Madd and Herka :welcome welcome to the rat race ..... sorry the chicken race.... I'm from WA and have 10 light sussex (including 2 roosters), 8 australorps (a couple are crosses) and at the moment I also have 13 geees - hopefully will be 12 by the end of the day (my sister is picking...

I've only got two of the last lot left - I sold the rest - and they are massive - fully feathered and out with the flock. The hen with the cut is improving - the cut has more or less healed over (she still has a limp where the scar tissue is pulling), i'm waiting for the feathers to grow back...

Soooo cute. Well done on the hatchlings. I've often had two mums looking after a set of chicks. The only thing you really have to be careful of is them fighting when they settle at night. Usually if the hens get along there is no issue at all. My last lot of goose eggs are in the incubator now -...

2 days (48 hours) from the last one to hatch. Personally I would candle the ones that haven't hatched to see if there is anything in them and I would only put the ones back that do.Generally the hens will get up themselves after about this time anyway as the early chicks start to become more...

Congrats, Look forward to pics when they are out and about..... :caf

My buff orpi is not very happy at the moment :hit One of my roosters has managed to rip her back open. She is in solitary until it heals. She did give me and egg yesterday in spite of that.

Yep try the produce stores (particularly if they stock horse stuff) after that just look it up online - I've found it at a few online stores.

You can try Rosemary and Cedar Wood repelant. It is a cream (oil) that use to be used primarily for horses but is now sold for humans as well - It doesn't work for March flys but works for pretty much everything else (and it sticks!) I would also try to plant wormwood around your pen - it's a...

In the mean time (before your training "takes effect" you can always put some shade cloth or "panels" around the bottom of the chook pen so she can't see them (and they can't see her). I have herding dogs amd the only guaranteed way I have of not having them "herd" the chickens all day is to...

Chickens will often stop laying if the are stressed - just ask anyone with a dog that likes to chase them! It is not uncommon for them to go off the lay for a week or so (sometimes longer) when they get moved from one coop to another, and they generally don't lay when they are moulting because...

The others that have replied are right about the protein and calcium in the chick starter vs the layer pellets. Your hen will only benifit from eating the starter crumble with the babies (and the hens usually love it). The only thing that I will add is that the chicks can eat anything mum can...

They are goslings actually, Pomeranians. I hatched out a whole heap of light sussex chicks in the middle of winter (because that was when I had the rooster). And I've got a broody hen sitting on 4 eggs at the moment. (Australorp cross chicks/eggs). But those that have already hatched are...

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I tend to do the same thing. I often turf them off the nest at feed up time, so they actually have a chance to get some of the food! You generally don't need to because they will get up once a day - we just dont necessarily see it!. If any of the eggs are cheeping - I leave them completely...

Once the eggs start to cheep you won't be able to get either of them off the nest!

I have goslings hatching at the moment. Very exciting!