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Hi all Need some help again....I have a nearly 2 year old hybrid hen, yesterday and today has left a white thick discharge in the nest. It looks like a wet egg... She has been having a problem with soft shells for a while, but this is the first time I've ever seen this with the chickens...

Wondered if anyone can help, I have had my hybrid just 12 months, about 6 months after I got her she started to go through her moult. She still has yet to come out of it, she eats, drinks, occasionally lays. In herself she's fine, I have tried dried cat food to boost the protein levels, as a...

I have 2 cream legbars that are bullying one of my original bantams. I have tried, separating them, taking out the troublemaker and leaving them to sort it themselves. They are still chasing her and picking on her, but it's the same bird all the time and the bantum has just come back into lay...

One of my bantams is not right, i let them out to roam this morning and all she wants to do is sleep. Her face and comb have no colour, and tail, is listing to one side and seems to be stumbling around as through she is struggling to see. I brought her in and sat with her and she just wants...

I think I might be covering over old ground here a bit.... :-)12 I as many of you have, have problems with moults this year due to the weather, ie stop/starts, taking longer. Due to moult, my birds have been off laying since sept (which I know is normal) but they don't seem to be making any...

Im sorry if this is not the place to advertise this but didn't see any harm in asking. :-)05 I have a Omlet Go for sale, Had it a year, excellant condtion, comes with run, 1m extention, summer shade (a Little faded), heavy duty winter shade and feed and drinker. £200. The only reason for...

I have a legber which is coming out of her moult. She is just starting to get feathers back now. Her laying has been a bit erratic (which i know is normal), but it would seem she doesn't want to lay in the nest, she has done in the past, but last few weeks i have found a few broken eggs in the...

I have recently acquired 2 1 year old orpingtons. Aside the usual squabbles they have settled in well. However one of them seems to getting more letargic,. i've seen her drinking but not generally eating a lot, turns her nose up at the corn too. But generally she doesnt have the same energy...

Wondered if anyone can help?? I've come home and found my legbar looking sorry for herself. Her tail is down, doesn't look herself. Also she lay her egg in the run and had white goo on it, and then went into the house and lay a shellless egg. She still doesn't look any better, she has had a...

My bantum is keeping me on my toes....she has bright red comb, goes in and out the nest, squawking like she is about to lay......but nothing!! :cry: This has been going on for weeks, and still nothing. I have checked her vent nothing is stuck or even looks like its coming. So I'm thinking she...

I have 3 bantams and a legbar. the leg bar and 1 bantam have been laying for a while. With no problems, this week i have found 2 of the leg bars eggs broken and shell loose in the run. As though it been kicked out the nest or stood on. I have 2 bantams trying to come into lay (and making a...