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Hi all, I wrote a post a couple of months ago when i had poorly chickens with sneezing and diarrhoea... took them to the vets, got them wormed, treated for mites etc and given antibiotics. They all perked up but the sneezing has continued, and the there is a lot of clear liquid droppings around...

I have been to the vets with my 6 girls and come back with 4 chickens and £50 lighter :cry: Lucy's foot was only treatable by operating as the abcess was too deep and there was no guarenntee she would survive the process so the vet recommended euthanasia. Henrietta was my 'prolapse' girly who...

Hi, One of my chickens has had runny poo for the last week - light milky chocolate colour - no mucous or blood. Now she is sneezing and making a 'quacking' noise! I notice another chicken is also sneezing as well. They seem to be eating, drinking and laying so otherwise ok. A few days ago one...

hi everyone, I haven't posted for ages...mainly cos my girls are all fine.....however, I have one girls who disappears at night and roosts in the trees - I try and catch her before she does it but she's often gone by then :-)07 I'm really not sure why she is doing this, and then she wakes us...

I have 3 compost bins on the go which are nearly all full with chicken waste/hay which is really slow to compost - I do add my veggie peelings etc but the majority is chicken bedding. One bin smells strongly of urine :-)03 does anyone have any suggestions on how to remedy this problem? At this...

Morning everyone! Well my 6 ex-batt's are all doing really well, all fully feathered and ALL laying! I had 8 eggs today; 2 were tiny so I think My 2 POL have started laying ( just had them on toast and they were scrummy!) Henrietta (my prolapsed hen) is still with me becasue she is perfectly...

Since starting to lay again last week i haven't had an egg - i actually think they are laying them in the bushes; today i kept them in their run until late morning to find one egg on the run floor :-)07 tonight at bed time i checked on them AND 6 hens were all squashed in one nest box...

Well I am delighted to find an egg this morning :D but equally confused to find a 2nd one that has been broken/or eaten? Of course the coop is in chaos with the two new girls so i'm not sure who has laid and why the egg was broken...maybe because the nesting boxes were blocked off? But then...

:shock: I knew there would be trouble BUT there was trouble and a half! Introducing the new girls to the old OMG what a racket; screeching, chasing and pecking :-)07 I had to find something makeshift to split the coop in half pretty sharpish. I have just gone back to check - and half the...

I have just picked up 2 17 week (POL) lohmann Brown hybrid girls - they are so pretty! :D Decided to add these youngsters to my older ex-batts to get a nice mix of ages ..... I have put them in the coop whilst the other girls are free ranging. Mind you Jessica ( the BOSS) is making a right old...

Hi everyone and a happy new year to you all :D My exbatts are feathering up nicely and looking good n- just wondering when they will start laying again! Still feeding them the small holders layers pellets and extra crushed egg shell......having to buy eggs from the guy down the lane :roll:

My garden is like a muddy swamp by the coop/run :( it has a tarp roof and covered 2 sides, also has area under the coop) however the run is pretty damp i presume from the water logged areas around the coop. I have been scattering some bliss to absorb it but it's a bit of a pointless exercise...

Just to let you all know that my ex-bat Lucy has recovered from her respiratory illness :D and also that my girls are starting to sprout new feathers :-)08 so pleased!!! still have the problem of Henrietta and her prolapse but i have sprayed it with violet and the other girls are leaving her...

:-)06 Feeling rather disheartened now; I have noticed the odd loose runny brown stool but not worried too much as all birds bright and healthy but this afternoon i noticed one of the girls sneezing, and now i have gone to lock the girls in bed and could hear wheezing - i poked my head in and...

:-)06 My lovely Henrietta still remains prolapsed despite 3 attemps to replace it ( annusol, honey tried) kept her in the garage for a few days but let her out today with me to free range ( she follows me around), loves looking for worms and is so sweet. However, she heads straight for the...

:cry: My poor girl who has had the prolapse is causing concern - I took her out, washed her backside in salt water, put annusol on it and held it is place for 10 mins, she then pooped and it came out again - so i repeated the whole process (she went to sleep in my arms!), i then kept her in a...

Ok i have managed to post some photos of my girls ( the ones who came out!) i put them on the photos page.....one of them ( who my daughter wishes to name 'Buffy - the slug slayer') is virtually featherless and almost oven ready!!! still can'y believe they laid 4 eggs!!!

not sure if this link will work :? http://flickr.com/gp/90468657@N05/3v11a1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/90468657@N05/8220810531/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/90468657@N05/8220812927/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/90468657@N05/8221932090/ My new ex bats stepping out for the first time .... :D

All girls intact overnight - 3 eggs laid ( one hen in process of laying as i write) :-)08 , 4 hens have made there way out of the coop into the run ( one is particularly brave) of the 2 remaining - one is on the nest and the other i can see has a pink bulge protruding from her vent :cry: I...

:-)08 I have HENS! Picked up 6 ex -batts late this afternoon and listened to them squabbling all the way home - put them straight in the coop (dark now) and after 5 mins of noise it all went quiet - peeked in to see 6 pairs of legs all snuggled up on their perch!!!!!! Get to see them properly...