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I've just been given 4 welsummer 12 week old girlies and their brother at very short notice. Fortunately I have a seperate run and coop they can go into untill they are big enough to range with my main flock, (mixed ages from 24-85ish weeks). I've put them in the garage for tonight. 4...

Do Speckled Sussex have pink feet and 'toes'? I'm sure her legs and feet were white. For some reason I've only noticed this on mine to-day and can only think that a) this is new or :shock: b) I've been a very stupid mummy and just not noticed. :-)06 Thanx.

A couple of days ago while doing the weekly vent check i noticed one of my girls had a very wet, slimy vent, like egg white. I do have one that's been laying a shell-less eggs for 3 months and haven't been able to find out which one. 1) could this be the 'culprit' ? 2)or could this wetness be...

We've go part the uncovered run on slabs which are directly laid over the ground. We scrape it clean every day and every week we scrub down with water with Jeyes in it. Obviously this drains down between the cracks but a lot goes off the sides and sometimes forms puddles. If really bad we jet...

I'm having a problem getting rid of lice :oops: from a couple of my chooks. I've covered them, at different times with Datom, Barrier Louse Powder, Total Mite Kill. I've dismantled the coop, scrubbed and sprayed it with Poultry Shield and covered every surface with DE, put it in their nest boxes...

Hi, We have 7 LF chooks in one coop and although we could pack another 1 bird in it would be a tight fit and not comfortable if we were to ever have another summer. It's supposed to hold 6-10 :-)06 Anyway we do have another coop of the same size. Our plan is to get a LF Welsummer Cockerel...

Hope this works! This is my A Team, 5 Shaver ex freerangers. We've had them since 20/08/11 and give us much pleasure and entertainment. Photos of our B Team newbies will follow in due course

Hi all, I picked up 5 ex freerangers on 20th August and so far have had hardly any eggs from them. Most days it'll be maybe 2 and very occasionally 3 but one will be very thin shelled. Sometimes we get no eggs at all. There is often a shell-less one in the coop. I know which 2 ladies are...

Hi every-one I am new to keeping chickens having picked up my first 5 girls on 20th Aug. These ladies are rescues from a commercial freerange unit. They were in quite good condition right from the start, and we believe they were 18 months old. Having then fallen under their spell we found...