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Hello Normally when I approach the hen house in the morning I can hear the girls, keen to be let out and when I open the pophole they can't wait to get out and go straight to their food. However the last two mornings have been different. No noise as I approach. I open the pophole and none of...

I have had my four hybrids for about a year now. They have a wooden house. Am I right in thinking that the timber should be treated yearly with creosote? My next question is, as proper creosote is not availabe to the general public, what is the next best thing? My other question is what do I...

Hi We have recently had problems with feather pecking so we sprayed our girls this morning with Nettex anti feather pecking spray. Since spraying them first thing this morning all four girls have laid. There is no spray visible on the eggs but they stink off the stuff! I was wondering if...

I have just read an article in a freebie magazine that suggests putting cold wood ash in the chicken house in the winter for them to scratch around in and dust bathe in. Sounds like a good way of using the ash from our woodburner, and I was wondering if other people have tried it? I also have...

I got four hybrids in August and they have all been in lay for five or six weeks. We often get four eggs per day so I assume that means they are all laying, but I haven't worked out which hen is laying which eggs. Until yesterday every egg has been in the nest box. Yesterday mid morning I went...

We are new to chickens and got 4 hybrids at the start of August. All was going well until Sunday when we had some very heavy rain. We have a smallish run attached to the hen house and for most of the day the girls are confined to this, and are allowed out for about 3 hours before bedtime. We...

Sorry, another question! But I am new to all this and I want to get it as right as I can. We bought a hen house and the perch is nailed in. Have since been reading up on red mite and now realise the perch should be removeable. So please can anyone suggest how to fix removeable perches to a...

This is probably a very silly question, but how much kick should an electric flexinet have? And is there anyway of telling wheher it is giving as much kick as it should? We are trying it out before the chickens arrive and my other half has had to touch it twice (even though you can here it...

Hi We're about to start keeping chickens for eggs, and I wondered what other people do to deter wild birds. We are going down the route of an electric flexinet to keep the hens in and predators out, but obviously this won't stop the wild birds. We do have alot of magpies and crows as well as...

Hi We are planning to get 4-6 hybrids but we are completely new to chicken keeping and don't know what types to go for. We want good layers, that will be healthy and don't keep going broody. Any suggestions as to what hybrids we should go for? Many thanks.

Hi We are planning to get 4-6 hybrid chickens. They will be kept in our garden, so we want a reasonable looking henhouse. Have been looking online, at the cheaper henhouses (around £150), but they seem to have bad reviews. We don't want to spend a fortune, but we are not confident enough to...