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You did the right thing in adding a greater number of new birds to a smaller number of established birds. E.g. adding three newbies to two existing hens would be much better than adding two new birds to an established flock of three.

I use them to encourage my girls to lat their eggs in the nestboxes rather than in the coop. I've lost a couple too- both when other people have been looking after the girls when I've been on holiday. I suspect that they had a tough time making their breakfasts!! I resorted to writing on the...

Have you tried ringing the BHWT hen helpline? tel:01884860084 (that's a UK number so if you're elsewhere you'll need +44 1884 860084.

Hi Blaine. Welcome to the forum.

I notice they've got a glockenspiel in their run. Who plays it? It would certainly liven up an egg song, if one of the others provided an accompaniment 😊

That is one unusual looking bird. It makes me think of 50% faverolles & 50% planet of the apes!!! No offence intended either to Chet or the rooster...

Hi Tru. Sorry that I don't have space to adopt your flock, but hopefully someone else will be able to help...

And, as anticipated, 6 days later Repecka has gone to join Margot, Harriet and Nibbles in heaven, having passed away in her sleep overnight. As with each of her predecessors, she'll leave a claw print on my heart. I'm very grateful for the work of the British Hen Welfare Trust...

3 1/2 years on, we've just laid to rest the third of these ex- commercial layers, Margot. Repecka is hanging in there, now about 5 years old, but I think she'll be joining her sisters in heaven soonish. But then I didn't expect either of them to make it through the winter, so you never know...

Hi Hayley. My heart goes out to you; they look gorgeous. Rather than giving up your remaining runner drake, could you not fox - proof your run / garden & then get him a couple of young ladies? There are quite a few old threads on the forum under "chicken runs, houses & equipment " to give you...

Hi Igor's hump. I'm not familiar with Phoenix chickens- it's just nice to see a bird in real life, where anything that touches the floor gets dirty!

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I feed my laying (& ex-laying) pullets & hens "Smallholder Layers' Pellets". They're hard IP GM free with no soya, so I can be sure that my hens have a GM free diet. It contains the essential added vitamins & minerals that they need, and comes in slightly smaller Pellets than most feeds, so...

I couldn't tell you Josh. I never tried again!!

It's good to see a realistic photo. His dangling tail feathers look muddy!!!

Hi Josh. Do you put out clean drinking water for the birds? That'd be my recommendation.

That'll have been Suella Braverman then... 😵‍💫

I've not seen a hawfinch yet, but thanks to Merlin I heard one in a mature conifer in our garden a few months back. I wasn't sure whether it really was one, but when I played the call of a hawfinch on my phone, the bird in the conifer answered back!

Sorry Josh, I didn't mean to rub it in 😔