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My two new girls (old English Pheasant Game) are not quite POL yet but of a good size. I have 6 others girls (4 elderly bantams and 2 vigorous but friendly Silver Linked Ambers). To integrate I did what I usually do - kept these 2 in a large run within the very big walk-in run for over 2 weeks...

Two new girls (around 16- 20 weeks old) - Silver Linked Ambers (bred for egg production I understand). Had them around 6 weeks now. They eat loads of food (layers pellets - particularly if mashed with water), drinks loads and poo loads(very wet and including some runny brown). They lay, they...

Today I found what I can only describe as a small chunk of chicken flesh with a couple of smaller pieces with it in a brood box near to an egg (although maybe no connection). There was no blood and it only smelled of "chicken meat" (I haven't cut it up!). None of the chickens (all between 3 -...

Looking to go for a slightly longer holiday in autumn and I am loathe to leave my girls for more than a few days. No-one near me keeps chickens (as far as I am aware) - but I would really appreciate setting up an arrangement whereby I could cover for someone else or pay someone knowledgeable in...

Hello, I found one posting about a "crowing hen" but there weren't threads that really applied so am posting a new topic. My Buttercup (a large Nero hen and referred to elsewhere as she had an impacted crop op)- was a beautiful layer when we got her. She was less than a year old and came to us...

....my large black Nero hen has recovered well. Luckily I discovered what was changing her behaviour and causing very wet poo in time - although it was an "emergency" op. She was operated on the week before Christmas, and as soon as she was sewn up (and sprayed with antiseptic silver - a very...

Hello, Have looked all over for advice about this. I have a lovely bird - a bluebell hybrid and an excellent layer until recently but over the past few weeks her shells have got thinner and thinner and are now nearly always broken at the point of lay. All my birds are fine. I have ensured...