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Happy New Year everyone. Hope all of you are ok and surviving these terrible storms. It's really bad in Nottinghamshire tonight! I've been working full time since 2020, so not had much spare time, I usually walk 5-7 miles a night. Sadly I now have a poorly knee, so off for an MRI tomorrow. I've...

I have received a message from a lady wishing to join the forum, but it telling her the user name and password incorrect. She joined as Lulu44 and her name is Linda Gadsby. Can any moderator help?

Three weeks ago, after a week of gradually declining, my beloved Barbie was no more. She had not been herself for several days. I brought her in one day, whilst I was homeworking. She didn't eat much, she didn't want to go out, not even when I put her on the grass outside, thinking this would...

Looby Loo (Bluebell) and Blossom (Amber Star) Had these several weeks now. Certain Looby Loo is laying the blue green egg, as she was the one whose comb started to grow quickly and she went into the coop more frequently. Weeks later, another egg started to appear in the nest box and Blossom's...

I just read on a Facebook forum that due to avian flu rearing it's ugly head again, all our hens/birds have to be kept kept in a covered enclosure or coop. How are we all dealing with this? :-)05 :-)19

Now that Miss Muffet and SIndy are gone and I don't get eggs any more (not sure why Mabel stopped laying several months ago), that I do need to get 2 more. I have sourced a breeder who has some POL's. She has said that I can collect two, but they will already be in a cardboard carrier box, so I...

I am absolutely heartbroken. This morning I looked out of the kitchen window, to see Miss Muffet lying down in the enclosure. I rushed out to find her with her head missing and neck missing. Some of her chest had been eaten. Her gizzards were in a different area, a couple of feet away. She was...

Hi all After last month's fracas with Barbie being poorly, yet looking OK (red comb/bright eyes) and giving them all wormers, lice treatment and the coop etc completely deep cleaned, 'diatommed' and red mite sprayed, Sindy has now become ill. Yesterday I noticed she was keeping herself away...

Hi all Please help, as I am unsure whether or not to assume Barbie is eggbound, I have been looking at youtube videos to try to find out. Yesterday, I noticed she wasn't in the run or dustbath so assumed she was in the nestbox - she was. The odd thing is that she was in there for a couple of...

I have a small arch leading up the steps to the hen run, which is covered in honeysuckle. Yesterday, I saw what looked like a darker area on top and as I peeped over, I saw a small nest, made of moss, with 4 eggs in there. I happened to have my phone, taking pics of my flowers, so quickly took a...

I was moving a rotten railway sleeper this morning and saw something move. On close inspection I thought it was a small dead lizard. I used a leaf to move it and it flipped over, revealing a spotted underside. Unbelievably, in one of the house bricks holes under where the sleeper was, I saw...

Earlier this week, whilst out walking in the forest, I noticed a huge dollop of frogspawn in one of the shallow trenches, which had been previously full of rain water. The second day (Wednesday) I took a bottle on my walk and filled it with water from the river, then poured it onto the...

Just a bit of fun, Miss Muffet trying to impersonate a "bluebell" in the rockery :-) Thought I would let the girls out for half hour each day whilst they can't do too much damage.

Wishing everyone all the best in 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-50738453 Just read this on the BBC news. I just wonder how the virus gets there in the first place? :-)19

This is no word of a lie but whilst out walking today I saw a Hoopoe!! I have only seen them in photo's or my RSPB magazine, but they are so amazingly distinctive. It was more than 50 metres away, so my phone footage was useless. I decided to video it instead of taking a photo, but it wasn't...

Since my hens came back from their 10 day break with another hen keeper, whilst hubby and me were on holiday, they have not been the same. This is not the same hen hotel I usually send them to, as she was unavailable on those dates. They have been home now for almost 2 weeks. They are all in a...

A couple of months ago I noticed that Mabel had lost feathers under her belly and thought it was due to her sticking her head through the fence to get to the grass (thus rubbing them off). I tacked mesh to the fence, so she could not harm herself again. Today, I was shocked to see her belly...

Bit of fun for Monday morning :D Sister Fledge, performing their version of "You keep on knocking but you can't come in" https://youtu.be/u_DHEgr_PTs

Just checking if it is fairly normal for hens to go off lay in the hot weather. They didn't go off lay at all last year, which was far hotter and for longer, plus they didnt go off lay in winter, so this is quite a shock to me. For 2 weeks, I have only been getting 2 eggs. Mabel seems to be...