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Unfortunately a penned crossbred cockerel has managed to damage the wattle of a free-ranging young cockerel and one of them is now missing. Is it likely to grow back in a young bird?

Sorry to have yet another question, but my three 9-week old bantam sussex cockerels, having got on peacably since birth, had a major bust-up today. They all pecked each others faces (beginning to go pink) until they are raw-red and feathers missing from the head. I have had to separate them...

I had a young cockerel full pelt into the middle of my back today when I was changing the water of some of my growers. I still have a lot to learn about cockerels. It was one of my friendliest birds that just lets me pick him up and everything seemed very peaceful when it happened. I was...

I have a young cockerel that tends to suddenly peck me very hard when I am feeding him or picking him up. He doesn't otherwise seem aggressive, so I'm not sure what this is about? Is there a good way of training him?

I'm wanting to move some of my growers into wooden housing where older youngsters have lived. I gather this is risky re transfer of diseases like coccidiosis and others which are carried in young birds before they have built their immunity. I plan to pressure wash, then steam clean, although...

I've separated my pullets from different broods that were being bothered by their brothers and they are now together free ranging in a pen. They are all getting on well, but they are not eating much (barely eating and untempted by treats), and this has gone on for several days. I think they...

I have lost Apricot, my Pekin who I've recently returned to the flock after her chick brooding (chicks almost full grown at 9 weeks and she was back in lay, although not keen to leave her brood). I had put her with another Pekin she knows right next to the house 6 days ago. She couldn't have...

I have a three year old Araucana who has seemed mild-natured up to now, but has begun blocking the entrance to the house from the other 5 hens at night, pecking them as they try to come in, and pecking a young Faverolles during the night. I have temporarily removed her from the house, but...

I have a 3-4 week old chick that is not happy and clings to its mother, although it it eating well and is active. It is gradually losing the down from its vent area and now has quite a big bare patch. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

Following Chris' interesting comments about success with using Avipro Avian probiotic to prevent coccidiosis, I've been reading on natural poultry health management. It seems maintaining a healthy gut flora is key in helping prevention and the vitamin A in Avipro Avian also acts as a natural...

My young cockerels seems to have started fighting quite visciously. This includes my growers of 10-11 weeks old and even some that are only 5 weeks old (a group of 6 cockerels and two females). They are still with their sisters. Is this the problem? I am not sure what to do. I haven't come...

I have a broody hen that seems a bit clumsy with her feet. If she treads on a chick and it cries, she doesn't seem to move off the chick. I found the last-born chick dead, which may have been trodden on, and another chick is cheeping and struggling to keep up, perhaps because it has been...

A squirrel has now replaced my rooks and is busy at my growers' pellets. I wonder if they pose a health risk to birds (apart from eating the eggs)?

I had a chick hatch from bought-in eggs with curled toes a couple of weeks ago. I have been busy putting cardboard shoes and sticking plasters on the feet. It requires a neighbour or friend to come and hold the chick each time for quite a lengthy operation, the the whole thing seems to fall...

I am wondering about the best way of rearing my growers (all on growers pellets) and the best way to socialise them. I have a group of 7 eleven-week old male and female sablepoots and am wondering whether to put them in a large run with my adult one male and one female sablepoot and how this...

Am trying to keep a flock of a dozen rooks out of the garden. I've tried scarecrows, banging saucepans and only putting food out for very short periods, but they are eating all my young growers' food as soon as it goes out and pooing all over the place even when there is no food available.

I have a young bird, just under a year old that has severe diarrhea. I separated her from the flock, put Biostop in her water, and she has been eating masses, but now her back end looks even wetter, and her vent is pink and enlarged. Not sure what to do. Initially I thought she had worms, now...

My last eggs that are in the incubator are due to hatch tomorrow. I have a broody hen sitting and wonder if the eggs might hatch better under the broody? She has been sitting for 2 weeks but her own eggs have turned out not to be fertile. The incubated eggs are washed, so I don't know whether...

I have a young bird that lays slightly wonky eggs with the shell of an uneven thickness. Just wonder what the cause might be?

I believe teenage growers are at a critical time when the young birds are building their immune systems. Is it important to keep them completely separate from the adult birds (if they are not vulnerable to bullying)? Or is it the chicks you have to keep them away from?