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Today I rehomed my 4 hens, I had them just over a year and to be honest keeping chickens wasn't for me. I learned a lot from you people on here and you are the best, I was thinking of it a few weeks ago and finally I did it. My youngest daughter knows someone with a farm and they said they would...

When it rains my girls shelter in a few places, under the trampoline, under a kids play house that is raised off the ground, under a bush and under some garden seats, but they never go in the coop only to lay and egg or to sleep at night. Seems strange they have a good shelter in the coop but...

I couldn't think of a proper subject title so I'll try and explain. I first got 3 hens from a farm, after homing them for 3 days in the coop I let them free range in my back garden, they were fine together a mini flock. then after a few weeks I went back to the same farm and bought 2 more, I...

I had a broody hen but I think I have broken her now, she no longer sits in the nest brooding. I have watched her the last few days and she is staying out of the coop with the rest of the flock, as it starts to go dark they make their own way in to the coop, she goes on the roost now and not...

I don't mean lots of it, I'm thinking more like a bit added to their food sometimes.

I only have 4 hens that free range in my back garden, lots of grass plus a big shrub they like to go under, their coop is also in the back garden. In the last few weeks I've noticed two areas where they have pecked all the grass up, and now it's just mud, but they seem to like going in those...

I posted a while ago about how some hens seem to prefer one nest and leave the others alone. So today I decided to just try something, I took out the wooden nest box that has separations. I replaced it with a long cardboard box with no separations, it's the same length as the wooden one. I put...

Well I only have 4 birds, 3 of them have been laying for a while now, I have a pullet among my birds, I noticed her going in the nest a few times but only for seconds then coming out. Her comb isn't that big but it is bright red, anyway this morning went to clean the poop boards and instead of...

I have a Cuckoo Maran that normally lays dark brown medium size eggs, in the last week or two her egg colour has lightened a lot, the eggs are fine. Now today she laid an egg and it was back to her normal colour, I'm not worried but curious, any ideas?

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When I open the coop in the morning around 07:30 it is still a bit dark but the chickens come out and go pecking away in the garden. I'm in the UK so it starts to get dark around 16:20ish and the chickens make their way themselves to the coop to roost, but it is still a lot lighter for a while...

Anyone ever had this? At the moment I have 5 pullets, 3 of them are laying, so I get 3 eggs a day. This particular day I got the 3 eggs plus this small one, at first I thought maybe one of the others has started and she hasn't got it right or something, but I haven't had any more since. So I'm...

a couple of days ago I noticed one of my pullets, limping, I looked at the foot but it seemed OK so I left it to see if it cured itself. Anyway today it got a lot worse, when I opened the coop, she stayed on the roost, I lifted her off and them noticed her leg, she was dragging it along and...

I've seen this a few times, for example only yesterday I was looking to buy satellite cable connectors, joining 2 cables together. Since then I have been on a couple of sites nothing to do with this subject and got adverts for them, I've heard of this before where it is said somewhere what you...

I keep seeing threads/posts where people say they bought chicks and so many of them turned out to be cockerels and then they say they can't have them and then try to re- home them. Now if your hen lays eggs and you let them hatch well that is different I'm more on about buying chicks, I knew I...

Well I have 5 hens and only 1 is laying, but this morning as she was on the nest I saw one of the others climb on top of her and tried to squeeze in next to her. I've seen video clips where this happens as most of you know they can ignore the other nest and seem to have a favourite. with me only...

I have in my flock 2 Cuckoo Maran Hens, I see pictures of other peoples flock and they have Plymouth Rock hens, looking at the two what makes them different?

Blimey! What laid these? Actually I had this picture on my PC in an old folder, I was looking through them and found this, I just had to post it. But no doubt someone on here will know what bird laid them lol.

This probably is a daft question as I'm sure lots of you experienced hatchers know this, but I wondered if chicken eggs can be like Crocodile eggs regarding temperature? What I mean is when a Croc builds her nest, I forget which is which but the ones nearer the top are or can be a different sex...

I don't have a roo before anyone asks but I keep reading threads and posts about having to re-home or cull them which is a shame. Something crossed my mind while reading the threads about roosters, can you get one that is sterile? If so I then thought will it crow, or is that not connected to it...