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think i need to install cctv into the hen house to work out wether the girls are eating thier eggs or just breaking them by accident then eating them for about 2 weeks now i have had about 1 -2 eggs daily but most days i havent had one egg :x :x i cant watch whats happening as i am not around...

i have kept my chocks for several years now nd have been thinking of getting ducks for a while but as i have limited space i was looking at getting 4 little miniature appleyards , i called quite a few places today but had no luck so i thought i would call a friend on another site as he had ducks...

i cant understand why sometimes things go great with keeping poultry and other times all hell breaks out , had to let one of my new gold partrige pekin bantams go the other day as she had a really bad case of myco that hit her hard and within 48 hrs so had gone down hill blinking tpyical it was...

sorry i havent been around for a while but things went crazy here and it doesnt help that i blew up my computer :lol: anyways within my girls run is a very large sycamore tree { foxy has seen this } and its got to be trimmed one side only next plot neighbours moaning about the leaves fulling...

one of my girls who seems a bit down has a long lower beak then the top half and i am wandering if this can stop her eating as well as she should be can it be clipped ?? vets have said they can do it but i dont have any money tell next week but a friend has said she will hold her of i do it but...

one of my girls has gone down hill slighty and her poos have been runny and pretty much bright yellow in colour , most the time shes quiet on her own with her head tucked under but theres also times when she picks up and runs to me . shes eating but not much and has been wormed and deliced...

does anyone here use cardboard bedding or has anyone tried it ???? am thinking of giving it a go tomorw when i go to collect my horse feed i may grab a bag if it works ok i mite be able to get my works to cut me loads up from recycling :D

can anyone help me i want to find somewhere thats really cheap for flubenvet does anyone know of any sites please ?? one site i have found is £15.99 for 60g tub but i would perfer to get the 240g but cant find anywhere :( i did find one site but didnt like the look of it .

i have been a badddddddddddddddddd badddddddddddddddd mummy today to 7 of my ex batts and yes i am kicking myself for it , during the week i have managed to get all 20 birds into the wendy house of a night which is what i wanted to do as i would of liked the ex batts shed kept as only a all day...

finally i plucked up courage to put my ex batts in with the older girls in the wendy house tonight and i have just been out to check them and so far so good , most of my older girls sleep on the second floor perches of the house and only 1 or 2 use the main lower perch and my ex batts were all...

i have yet again found a pretty small egg it wasnt quite as small as a wind egg but it was still smaller then aveage , its about the 6th one i have had within 2 month so does this mean a few of mine are slowly down or stopping lay all together or are they from fresh layers ???? thing is i do...

i have just been out to clean out the girls and i noticed that in both my houses 1 shed 1 wendyhouse that there is damp an frost on the roof in the inside :o have never had this before has anyone esle had this prob and do i need to worry about the girls of a night i really dont think there is...

i want to vaseline my girls combs { protect from frostbite } an legs but have never done it before so how often do i have to do it and i would assume that bedding an mud would stick to the vaseline so would this annoy the girls ??

omggggggggg i was so ill , i got home to do my girls and i noticed one of them had something yukky on her back well if it was chicken poo then i'm the queen of england as they saying goes :lol: :lol: :lol: yukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk it was smelly gross yukky and just about anything esle you can...

i know this has probably been discussed 100 times but theres so many different answers on the web and i cant really tell what ones are the truth are wind eggs from birds that are about to lay or from birds that are due to stop laying , all my 11 girls where laying fine until recently where they...

one of my white leghorn hens seems poorly yet she is not coughing wheezing sneezing or anything , she doesnt seem egg bound but shes down and miserable and i cant seem to find anything wrong with her apart from it looks like shes starting her moult , she is eating but only a little i mixed her...

i have a 7' 5 foot wendy house that has 2 layers and most of the 11 girls that are in there all sleep on the higher level and only one uses the bottom perch but i am looking at making all round shelter for all my girls so i was thinking of putting the 8 ex batts into the wendy house with the...

would chickens eat a mouse that was already dead i know they will catch them if they can an eat them alive but this morning i found a poor dead mouse { sorry love mice :lol: } in thier water bowl thats within the run and the girls must of been drinking from it as this was a few hours after i...

one of my ex batts is moulting but its bad enough as the poor thing doesnt have many feathers to start of with especailly on the wing well today she had quite a bit of blood splatter on both her wings where they have ethier been pecked out by one of the other girls or she done it herslef so i...

i am sure a few of my girls have scaly leg even though i treat them at least once a month with johnsons scaly leg spray also i treat the houses weekly with poultry sheild an the run gets cleaned every few weeks with jeyes fluid , i have been reading up on treatments but theres so many so i would...