Recent content by FlowerOfScotland

Hello everyone! I currently have no hens. Of the four I originally got, four years ago, one died soon after getting her, one had to be euthanised after egg peritonitis, and on Boxing Day this year I lost one due to a respiratory infection (and a very traumatic visit at the vet, but that’s a...

I have been using the Omlet automatic door for the past 13 months. It was easy to install on a wood panel, cutting the hole to the measurements in the instructions. Battery life is great - after a year it’s still at 80%. I have it on timer, which is pretty easy to programme once you‘ve got the...

Oh. I have some serious thinking to do :rolleyes:. I’m so confused! Thanks again for your advice. Will ponder over this.

Thank you for your replies... I really appreciate your views. I too don’t like to see her in the coop all day but when I do close her out she is obviously NOT happy. Whats the most humane way of stopping her being broody if I was to go down that route? I am struggling with this issue as part of...

Good morning all, I have three Buff Wyandotte hens. They are around one and a half years old and I’ve had them for a year now. One has never laid (I have been assured she is female even though she looks different from the others and crows like a cockerel, usually at 6am):D. But I love her/him...

Thank you for having me . I’m coping with the poop. It’s the really gross stuff I read about on here that worries me (worms, shell-less eggs etc). I’ll just need to get over all that! Here’s an introduction to my girls.

Ex TV production manager, then antiques dealer, now Office Manager I swapped the sunny climes of Rome, Italy, where. I lived for or 16 years to return to not so sunny Scotland to be nearer my mother who had health problems. After years of thinking about getting chickens i bit the bullet and...