Recent content by cleo16

Hi Just a quick question, it has been raining continuously all day, my chickens have the option of going into their undercover run or coop but don't seem interested in doing so, as a result they are beginning to look very soggy. Should I lock them in the run to give them a chance to dry out?

With the better weather my girls are allowed to Rome around the garden, under supervision of course, but I have a wide variety of trees and shrubs, they are particularly fond of eating the leaves on my plum tree and don't seem to have come to any harm. Are there any shrubs, trees or plants that...

Following my last post l have more bad news, although one of my hens has begun to lay again the other has developed sour/ impacted crop. This is the same hen which prolapsed when she first started laying. The advice l have been given is to cull. ☹

Hi, l am new to keeping chickens, l bought two pol Colombian black tails, it took a few weeks before they started laying, but l was getting two eggs a day for nearly a fortnight, but they have not layed now for over a week, l have supplemented their diet of layers pellets with a soluable poultry...