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I have a Silver Campine about 4 years old (poss a bit older can't remember)& up to now healthy & still laying! About a week ago we threw a small pile of grass cutting in the run for them to scratch around in (we usually do this for their entertainment, they don't usually eat much of it or at...

Another query (sorry!) about my future house move & temp chook house! I have a small coop originally made as a temp 'hospital' for 1 bird. It is 36" wide x 20" deep x 14"-18" sloping high. I'm wanting a temp home (could be up to 2 weeks) for my 3 girls, (2 large & 1 smaller breed) & thinking of...

As it says really? Found this site & just wondered if they're any good, never heard of them before. Its a UK address but I don't suppose that means much these days. www.eggshellonline.co.uk Anyone had anything from them or heard about them?

Now the moving house plans are progressing I'm starting to think about the chooks & their new home. We're moving to smaller garden & also will be having building work done, not immediately but as soon as plans etc can be submitted. So don't want chooks disturbed more than necessary. One option...

At last it looks like we might have found ourselves a new house to move to (well, fingers crossed!) The downside is that it doesn't have the large garden we had wanted, disappointingly we missed out on two other houses that had lovely large space attached but there you go, can't always have...

Just out of interest I've often wondered what determines the colour of an egg (shell :D ) & in particular how it is that one of my chooks lays eggs that are different colours, sometimes they're light pinky/beige others varying shades to quite brown. When I had more chooks I thought the...

My 3 girls are similar ages, getting on a bit! 2 are laying well (just about same as last year) but the third isn't. She laid one of those tiny eggs (is it called a 'wind' egg??) then 1 normal a couple of days later, that was about 3 weeks or so ago, since then nothing but 1 soft shelled last...

Mt little flock has dwindled to 3 & they are 'getting on a bit' now, bless them, so egg production has also dropped. We are planning to move house as soon as we can find one we like (& can afford!!) which we had hoped would be Spring, I was then going to get some young birds to increase the...

I'm sure this sort of thing has been covered but looking back can't find anything. I have a well established group of 3 chooks & I have agreed to adopt 2 elderly hens which would otherwise be 'turned out' to fend for themselves :o They are the only ones left from a flock that my sis in law...

Hi everyone, :-)99 Has anyone heard of this please, I said I would ask on behalf of a friend who is new to chickens. She has been told to add bicarbonate of soda to her veg 'mash' (stewed up veg peelings, etc) I've never heard of it! Has anyone else & if so what does it do??? Thanks :-)19

I've been keeping chooks for about 4/5 yrs with my present little family down to 3 & they're now about 3ish yrs old. So a little advice from you peeps please. Up to now I've aquired various groups of birds from different sources (1st 5 came together,needed a home) Sadly Mr Fox got them a year...

I'm sure all you clever DIY people will be able to give me an idea of how to do this :-)99 All through the summer I haven't been closing the pop hole at night (my chooks live in a completely enclosed large run) even though I know foxes can find ways & means through wire/digging etc...

Hi everyone :-)99 Not been on here for ages & ages, but hoping you'll all have some tips on this for me. Finally I'm getting organised with my long overdue new coup. (Few unconnected problems have meant other things had to take priority :( ) Have read a really helpful post (New House) which...

Does anyone have any ideas on this? My 'very healthy looking' black maran, has stopped laying. She started after the moult & was up to about 4 eggs a week but hasn't laid for over a week now. As I've only 3 chooks now its easy to tell who lays what! What worries me is that I had another maran...

Does anyone have any experience of them? Went up there at the weekend in my search for a new hen house. Was impressed with the set up, they sell LF & Bantums, Guinea Fowl & Ducks. All were in excellent condition & the guy was so helpful & showed me the available chooks for sale etc. But I want...

Does anyone know if you can buy Flubenvet (don't think I've spelt that right!) in small doses? I only have 3 chooks at the mo & the small size will only have a few doses used before it will be past its use by date, the rest will be wasted. Anyone have a solution to this problem or does anyone...

Looking at buying some wood chips for the run now that its getting very slushy with winter weather. Have seen various things available online but don't quite know which to go for. The last lot came from a tree we had lopped in the garden so didn't have to find any. I know they have to be...

After giving me good service for nearly 3 years my home-made, converted from a shed, chook house needs to be replaced. Its served its purpose well but one corner is starting to leak slightly now & the door hinges have been repaired too often to be any good. Want to get it sorted before the bad...

Hello everyone, been otherwise engaged for ages, not had any time to think about anything other than work for far too long but now I'm back on an even keel (hope I'm not talking too soon :-)07 ) Will look forward to hearing about everyone's chooks, viewing topics & getting lots of tips again...

:( Following on from my last post re: poorly Marans "any ideas on this?" Well, sadly she is no more. Poor thing, she had been coping so well & I thought she was getting a bit better, definately no worse anyway. But when I went to lock them up last night she hadn't gone into the coup with the...