Recent content by Becky

Tuesday evening a chap knocked at our door asking if one of our chickens had escaped into his garden (quite a way away), in a nutshell it wasn't one of our girls and we spent a long time knocking on doors to no avail. I managed to catch her and as he would only have had to called the rspca and I...

I'm looking for a new henhouse for our girls. Sadly, I had my first experience with red mite recently and whilst we're now on top of it, and our coop was fine as a starter for our girls I don't think it will withstand weekly pressure washing which I feel the need to do for the foreseeable future...

I made a thread a while back about a feather pecking problem, I initially though this was down to our run being too small so started using anti-feather pecking spray, and let our girls free range through the day, initially this seemed to work but as soon as the spray stopped the pecking...

Our 4 hens have just started their first week of marriage's pellets + flubenvet so just a few queries. Is it normal for the use by date to be so short on them? Mine only have 1 month left on BB date and I'll barely use half of the 10kg bag this round. I really don't want to be wasting so much...

Hi! A newbie here, very grateful to come across such a helpful forum. I'm having a problem with feather pecking in my 4 hybrids. We've had them since August , and sadly the coop and run we initially were sold wasn't big enough. We were told it was made for 6 hens, however even with the...