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I went to the home and garden show at the NEC in Birmingham today. I was surprised to see the British Hen Welfare Trust there and a couple of other stands. There were a few ex battery hens in a pen and some other pens with different breeds. One breed was very small. The cockerel looked like a...

I saw a second hand child's PVC playhouse for a tenner yesterday on our local facebook forum, so had a smart idea and bought it. I decided I would put this in the corner of the external pen and let the girls use it as a dustbath area, as it is shaded all year round with the tree that is covered...

Poundstretcher stores are selling boxes of 150 net-free fatballs for £9.99. Considering my garden birds get through a square suet block, 6 fatballs and a coconut suet per day, this has saved me some money. :D

Sorry to bother everyone again. Cindy - for 2 weeks she laid an egg every day, apart from 1 day when she skipped. This week she laid an egg on Monday and Tuesday, she then laid a soft egg on Wednesday, (less than 24 hours of Tuesday's egg), no egg on Thursday and this large egg today. There...

Vet Ark Zolcal D Has anyone used this as an extra calcium supplement? I saw it on the BHWT website, after googling soft shelled eggs. I give mine oyster shell and grit, but they don't seem to take much. Not sure if that is because they have plenty to go at in their outdoor run with natural...

Saw this second hand EGLU on Facebook this morning (it's not mine for sale) Nottingham area incase anyone was looking. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/463316434116895

Hi Anna, I am also new to the forum and new to chickens, but enjoying owning my 2 girls. :-)

Just saw some automatic treadle feeders on ebay and wondered if anyone owns one or has had experience of their hens using them? I initially thought they looked a great idea, but then doubt set in when I saw on some of the feedback that their hens could not get used to it and with mine being ex...

Can't beat bacon and eggs for breakfast, especially the eggs laid by your own hens. :D

My lovely two ex battery/barn hens always lay their eggs on the floor of the coop, in the straw they drag down from the nestboxes. They have only laid once in the nest box and that was the following morning we got them (2 weeks ago). Whilst I am not fussed where they lay their eggs, does anyone...

Thank you again Marigold and thank you to Icemaiden. It's great to have some experts on hand, as this is all new to me. :-)

Me again. I have straw in the nest boxes and on the first day one of them laid an egg in there and then again in the afternoon (a soft egg),the other hen laid an egg on the floor that same day. They both lay their egg in the same "nest" on the floor. The coop was one of those flat packed styles...

Hey Marigold, you must be pyschic. Hubbie has been adjusting the run and the coop. Roof has been covered (we previously had a tarpaulin on at night) and some slabs put at the far end of the run as it gets hot in summer and assume would be sludgy in winter. Run is being extended further, so it...

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Hi Marigold Well, we set up a small extended manmade run today and opened the door of their enclosed run. They took a while to realise they could just hop out, but I coaxed them with grass. Once out, they were digging like coal miners LOL. They didn't try to escape, nor fly off, so you were...

Hi Icemaiden I think I may have droppped lucky with the two girls I got. If I go to the pen, they come straight over and if I make clucking noises, they answer back. I am so surprised how they interact, as I expected them to be very shy. Tonight, again, at 8.30pm they both walked up the ladder...

Hi Marigold. I have called them Barbie and Cindy, much to my husband's displeasure. ? Today they have dug a large hole in the soil and have enjoyed soil baths, rolling around in it and rubbing their heads in it. They're so funny to watch. Another egg this morning from one of them. Hubby us...

Ahh I see. Thanks for clarifying that, it was a real shock. I am so pleased with them, they even took themselves to "bed" before 9pm tonight, so I closed the coop door, just to keep them safe, incase a fox is about.

Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and new to chickens. Yesterday, I collected my 2 ex barn "battery" hens. I expected the worst, having googled information and looked on youtube, so was surprised that these girls were fully-feathered and chirpy. I collected them at 1pm yesterday (Saturday...