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Unfortunately, with these things, it's so often a case of trying this and trying that. My personal policy when dealing with anything that involves potential crop issues or poop problems is to go back to basics and work from there. Sweetcorn is not only high in sugar and will therefore feed any...

Have you tried laying off the sweetcorn? It may be irrelevant but it is, by its very nature, sweet and high in sugar so if she has a bacterial imbalance in her gut, you may be inadvertently 'feeding' the bacteria, causing a bloom. It might be worth seeing if she improves after a day or two...

I came home to find my girl, Morag, puddled in the nest box again. I took her out and put her on the grass, still 'broody shaped', as they do! With some gentle persuasion with my toe, she eventually joined the others for a forage and I shut her out of the coop for two hours but I think she'll be...

Jemima and Lottie are both in beautiful condition by the looks of it....you'd never know they were poorly girls. Hope they are both on the mend for you soon xxxx And poor Bettie hasn't got it so bad either. She still has a perfectly nice home there, if a little on the small size (as needed, of...

Awww, big hugs hon. It's always hard when they're poorly and you have to leave them x

I have a fabulous little pair of quail egg scissors which very neatly cut the cap off and then you just pour out the contents and if you want boiled, you can boil them and then pop them into a small tub full of ice cold water, shake them vigorously and then the shells come right off....so I can...

I (somewhat ironically) don't eat eggs so mine are for fun, more than anything. Hubby enjoys whatever eggs come his way but as I'm the one that cooks them, and quail eggs are just a pain in the butt, we tend to give them all away!

I'm hoping not to resort to the cage but it's there, just in case! Not doing the quails just yet. I still have the CCL 'chicks' in my conservatory at the moment, using the cage I intend to have for the quails. As we have been forecast more snow and temps of minus 5 next week, I have been...

I have a buff orp doing the same....she's only been laying a couple of weeks and there's no future plans for chicks so I think I'm gonna be for in for some fights!

Oh I see, I guess that is comparitively expensive. I paid £35 each for my cochins, brahmas and orps so I guess I thought £25 was pretty good! Lol! I now have five CCLs too but I hatched them myself so they just cost £1 an egg!

Welcome to BYC! We won't need to give you naughty ideas, the chicken maths will work its wonders and you'll get those ideas all on your own! :gig You say blue egg layers are hideously expensive....you can pick Cream Crested Legbars up for around £20 to £25....is that expensive? xxx

Even if your vet can't see chickens, they should be able to describe Tylan, which is the best thing for respiratory infections in general. Or you can private message me your address and I can send you some but it may not come in time to help your sick girl. In the mean time, the Nutri Drops can...

No, not the same thing as I believe VetRx is mainly a flu/cold remedy, a bit like a cough mixture for poultry! We don't seem to have an equivalent, or at least not an 'over the counter' version. Nutri Drops are more of an instant booster for birds that are under the weather....a tonic, so to...

We don't have it here in the UK but we have Nutri Drops and they are fabulous!

No, that's the frustrating thing....I drove to collect the eggs and my RCom has an autoturner, which worked beautifully. The ONLY difference at my end, between this and previous hatches, was that I used an egg tray in the bator. It is the proper one, designed for this model, and it holds the...

Hi Yorkshire Coop! Well, it depends how you look at it really....out of fourteen eggs, I had nine pip the wrong end and I had to assist most of them in one way or another.....two were full assisted hatches, over a twelve hour period! At the end of it all, I had eleven live chicks and three dead...

I'm using hardwood play grade woodchip which is currently over heavy duty weed suppressant but I think that will have to come out as the girls are digging it up all round the edges and eventually they will shred it and then it might become a danger if they eat it or get it wrapped round toes...

I have been advised on here to deep litter it.....meaning add a mix of garden debris...pine needles, leaves, straw etc and zeolite (known as Sweet PDZ in the States) to neutralise smells. I'll have to see how it goes. I am trying sand in the coops. I have a traditional 12 bird hen house and a...

At the moment, I can be smug as the chook pen floor doesn't need cleaning....the chooks just scratch and dig in the bark and turn it over for me and the rain washes it through but I'm waiting to see of my smugness turns to regret when the warmer weather arrives....whether it will end up stinking...

I sooooo sympathise with that one!!!! My chook pen is pretty OK as it has play bark as a substrate so it doesn't get muddy but the area leading up to it is soooo soggy and the paddock area, where the goats and pacas go in and out of the stable, is a quagmire! The 'pacas do this wonderful thing...