Search results for query: *

My rescue hens sleep in the nesting boxes! It doesn't seem to harm them (poo on feathers or anything).

I've looked at the omlet netting but it's really expensive because the smallest they do is much bigger than I need.

It's just that I want an unobtrusive fence to separate that part of the garden, and that's easy enough to do with fence posts, netting/chicken wire and hooks, but the gate part requires more effort, at least extra fence posts and the ability to hook it to the bottom as well as the top, but then...

Welcome JohnnyA88 :) £20 cost is pretty good. We rehomed the cockerel so only have two chickens luxuriating in their large coop and run with freedom in the whole garden every day. Got rid of the greenhouse, too, and have adapted that area that's next to the chickens into a mini-orchard, so...

Aw, sorry to hear about your lovely old girl, RudiesRoost. It is easy to get really fond of the quirky little creatures. Two of mine won't go in the coop at night, just sleeping down in the run. Now that the weather should - theoretically, anyway! - start getting colder, I'd like to stop this...

My daughter wants to sell our excess eggs but I'd be worried about litigation from people who get ill from some other cause but automatically assume it's my eggs. They are laying at a ludicrous rate, though. This is their coop now. I grow veggies on the roof and there's a drainpipe and...

Those are lovely chicks, Dave! I'm having problems with the new chickens flying out of their area. I think I'll have to put up an enormous fence or rehome those chickens and get quieter ones. Chased a fox away from them yesterday - at 8:30am!

Rebrascora, I think you're right. I like the shed though - might get it at some point anyway. Serendipitously, a henhouse came up for sale on Gumtree, a self-made one with integrated run and a wildflower meadow on the top. More space in the coop for my girls and more secure. And it turns out...

Hope the bullying stops soon, GG. Silly question: how do chickens get up to high perches? I need to make a new coop in a slightly awkward part of the garden and am considering buying a small shed to adapt because I can't find a coop of the right proportions. I'm considering this...

Belated happy birthday GGBear! Lovely present. :) We got two new chickens too, and are still fighting the foxes. Went out to check on them at 9pm and the fox had chewed through all the overhang of the roof of the henhouse! This doesn't actually give access to the house, but it gave me the...

Hope she pulls through, Rudi. Your birds are lovely, GGBear! And the baby, of course :) My Elvis is doing really well! She's walking almost completely normally and laying eggs regularly again. During the day I put her into her run when it's not cold (it has a raincover)and give her the run...

Yeah, I was scared of my cats going out tonight because the fox might well be sniffing around again. Fortunately they prefer to stay indoors after dark. Elvis has had some camomile tea and is in bed with a fluffy hot water bottle to somewhat simulate a chicken. Got to keep the cats away from...

That's a lot of different chickens RokoKT! I once had to face down a fox in the street because it was after my puppy. This was late at night, but still! We buried Egg and made a concrete tombstone to put over her, partly to prevent the fox from digging her up. I don't know which fox did it -...

Thanks for the advice all. Elvis is indoors but not in a particularly dark place - I'll shut the blinds. She's more alert and far less terrified now. She drank water when I held a bowl to her beak, but hasn't eaten yet. When I try to stand her up she's fine with being touched but puts one leg...

Oh no :( I spoke too soon. A fox has been and killed two of the three. One's gone and one we've put in a box and put in the greenhouse to bury tomorrow. Elvis is still alive but very traumatised and possibly injured; I don't know if she's going to make it through the night. Any advice to help...

What adorable chicks :) I'd love to have a rooster but couldn't due to the crowing - living in central London crowing hens are not welcome! If anyone has one of a breed that doesn't crow I'd happily adopt it rather than it having to be slaughtered. We get too many eggs as it is. I've now made...

Thanks for the welcome! Yes, all hens; don't think Elvis minds being misgendered. Egg was chosen by the teenager but I quite like it. :) They have started laying, 2 eggs each morning between the three of them, but this morning they trampled on them boo.

Hi all. I'm new to all this and have just the three RIRs, Enid, Elvis and Egg. :) I'm in London (Stepney) and have a teenager and two cats as well as the newest family members.