Recent content by CWB

Hi, I'm sorry if this is a really common topic and covered elsewhere, but I'm really puzzled about our chickens. :-)07 We have 14 chooks, but one is a cockerel, one is a rescue chicken who has never laid an egg since we've had her, two are chicks hatched this year and one is their mum, so that...

Our hens have produced two chicks this year, which are now eight weeks old. They have been integrated into the main flock, but they haven't yet got the hang of going into the hen house at night (having previously been in a separate 'maternity' wing, a sectioned-off part of the main enclosure...

After a nasty chickicide incident last month, we built our broody hen a maternity wing to hatch her eggs. She managed to hatch one last week, and we plan to keep them segregated for six weeks, as our chicken book recommends. However, one of our other hens is now sitting, so will (hopefully!) be...

A couple of weeks ago, my husband brought an injured chicken home. She'd lost a lot of feathers from her back, and her skin was in a bad way. We sprayed her with Septiclense and popped her in the shed with our other chooks (ten hens of various breeds plus a cockerel). At first we weren't too...

Hi, one of our Cuckoo Marans has been limping for some time, but while it started out as a slight limp that was only noticeable when she ran, it's now very noticeable, even when she's just walking. She's eating fine and seems otherwise happy, so not sure if we should be worried? Could the vet do...

We've just acquired two lovely call ducks (a duck and a drake); they are currently living in a pen with our 10 chickens and 1 cockerel. They get on fine, but while the chickens all put themselves to bed at dusk, we're having to catch the ducks and put them to bed every night. Their joint shelter...