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My garden is descending into a mud put (although new grass is coming through where I planted it when I first confined my hens to their runs for a flubenvet week). However, I have a plan. My co-op are doing big (70 ltr) £5 bags of bark wood chippings, and my idea is to use this to thinly cover...

Hello, originally Wax Crayon was mostly the boyfriend in our relationship, with the girlfriend occasionally encroaching on the account. Now the tables have turned and this is the boyfriend's first go as Wax Crayon for a while. The Great British climate has turned a corner - the cold half of the...

Just thought I would share this with you - my hen comes asking me for massages about twice a day. She waits at my feet and looks up at me, then settles into my lap when I pick her up. This is what ensues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdI3bY3tAck&feature=youtu.be She also tucks her head into...

Thanks for the advice Chris! We're moving out soon and will need to erase all traces of the hens having stayed here or the landlord will kill us.. we took them to my parent's house for the weekend and they spent all day running around in the garden eating worms, having dustbaths and sunbaths and...

We rescued a bantam silkie wandering outside a farm looking for water and brought her home (a little sister for Pumpkin our other hen). We noticed immediately that she was sneezing and shaking her head, and had a bit of clear mucous discharge from one nostril. Took her off to the vet...

We're keeping Pumpkin our (temporarily) indoors hen in a pet carrier lined with Dengie Freshbed, which is recommended by BHWT. I'm starting to wonder if wood shavings are a better option, both now and when we move her and our imminent ex bat flock into their coop in the garden. She seems to peck...

Hi team, Our much pampered flat-chicken, cause of a million problems, appears to have a small vertical crack running up from the centre of her beak. It's about 3mm in length. Tried to get a photo this morning but she wouldn't hold still (and I'd have to create a flickr account or something to...

My girlfriend and I have a bit of trouble. For the next week or so we're living in a flat and taking care of a semi-poorly hen (taken from a farmer we know to separate her from a flock who were turning on her following a couple of injuries). She's very recently started making a lot of noise...

Hi all, I'm soon to acquire some ex batteries and am preparing their retirement home. I've been warned of the evils of red mite, so have bought a plastic coop (not Eglu). However, it doesn't have a perch inside (it does have nesting boxes), so I plan to make one myself. I was thinking if I...