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40 of my neighbour's chickens were killed last night. They have about 20 left. Ours are fine thankfully but the scene in the field next to our garden this morning was heartbreaking with bodies scattered over a wide area, both in and out of the enclosures. Our neighbours breed them as a hobby and...

I feel rather guilty asking for advice as I haven't posted for a while, but this forum is where I naturally turn if I have problems. One of my pekins, about 2 years old, died last night. I'm pretty sure it was coccidiosis from reading the symptoms which almost all match hers - hunched with...

I've just noticed that Elvis my rooster has a small split along the length of his beak, at the tip. He's perfectly ok, and I don't know how long it's been like that. Am bit concerned it could get worse and cause him problems eating and drinking. Has anyone come across this before and knows...

After the recent dog attacks (still escaping despite police, dog warden, game keeper and half the neighbourhood complaining and being verbally abused by the owner) things have settled a little. I've had to stop my chickens free ranging and they now live in an electric enclosure unless I'm...

I've been offered a pair of old English game hens to go with my Pekins. I know very little about them as a breed, can anyone educate me please ? They'll have to be penned much of the time, but am getting a 25m electric fence because of recent dog attacks. I've read that they don't like being...

Yesterday when I got home instead of 3 chickens running to greet me as usual, I found one rooster in the henhouse and apparantly fine and a pile of black feathers by the front of our house. No sign of the two hens. We eventually found the black hen who came out of the bushes, she'd lost a lot of...

Well almost bald. This is the first year mine have moulted properly and so far only one has which makes it look worse. My previously plump and fluffy black pekin now looks like a naked neck and seems to have shrunk to half her size. Her half naked state is clearly very attractive to Elvis the...

One of my pekin hens started the three weekly broody thing yesterday, and when I put her in the broody house it was crawling with earwigs. Elvis the rooster was helping and had a look but didn't want to eat them so I brushed them all off. They're back again, and I've remembered, I think, that...

.....has been discovered in my neighbour's field. It looks like a light suffolk but has feathered legs. This remarkable discovery was found when one of their hens who'd disappeared emerged with a new batch of chicks. They breed suffolks so will no doubt be very excited. My pekin rooster is...

They have to be bantams and I've narrowed it down to sablepoots, wyandottes,welsummers or autralorps but have questions about them all. Do sablepoots go broody much and how are they for producing eggs ? I've heard that wyandottes do go broody, but are they as bad as pekins ? Will welsummers be...

Following the dog attack, my pekin has lost so much of her wing feathers that she can't flutter up to perches or control her descent very well. She's also lost most of her tail feathers and has a bare bottom. I've read in the past that if feathers are lost they won't grow back until the next...

I had 6 months of chicken keeping without one problem or worry, but in the last 4 months I no sooner sort out one crisis than another happens. Yesterday a dog escaped from a house in the village, got into our garden and attacked the chickens. All he got was a mouthful of feathers, thanks to...

I've been doing it again :oops: Spent the lunch hour looking a pooh pictures, not chicken this time but fox and hedgehog. Noticed it in the grass recently, not for the first time but I've taken more notice since I've had the chickens. Fox and hedgehog pooh seems to look so alike, but I think...

I've just had a lovely email from Flytes of Fancy telling me I've won their broody coop competition, it's being delivered next week. :D I don't think I've ever won a competition before, and the timing couldn't be better. Now I can try and cure my two broody chickens by isolating them in it...

I'm wondering if it's ok to just leave my pekin to snap out of it on her own. She's been broody for two weeks, isn't on any eggs and is incredibly determined. Have tried leaving her in isolation on cold concrete in the run, she just settles there. For the last week have shut her out of the...

I am a very sad person, and would never admit to this anywhere else. I have just spent my lunch hour on here looking a pictures of chicken pooh, even peering extra closely at some over my sandwiches. :oops: There was a reason, I think I've established that the rather runny green specimen one...

Hoping someone can give me some quick advice. Squeak, young Pekin hen has a watering eye, which forms clear bubbles in the corner. She's laid today, seems perfectly happy and is eating and doing the usual pecking and wandering around. She was wormed just over a month ago, red mite seem to be...

Now that my little flock is down to 3, I want a pair of new hens but I'm not sure whether to stick with Pekins or get something else, perhaps that lays a bit better. I have to say though that my chickens are pets first and the eggs are a bonus. I think I should have bantams as my hen house is...

It's the first time for me . Tilly was only 9 months old and was fine yesterday evening. This morning she was in the nest box when I went to work, I thought she was laying although she looked a bit fluffed up so I wondered if she'd gone broody. When my son got home from college at about 4 she...

I think I'm an over anxious mother but to chickens - the real child is no problem and there's always doctors if I need it for him. My latest worry is that one of my hens has laid odd eggs the last two times. She's only started to lay recently, but her eggs had been normal and perhaps 2/3 a week...