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Have you tried looking for growers feed rather than all flock. For example. https://www.smallholderfeed.co.uk/products/poultry/poultry-grower-pellets/

I may have come over rather heavy handed last night in my posts. My appologies. I had a difficult day. Let me cool my hot head down a bit and I'll try to explain myself better. Just bear in mind that my current chicken keeping circumstances are stranger than most so if I'm doing any pot calling...

If you had to make a distinction how would you describe the two, livestock and pet?

True, it isn't. There's a range inbetween. It's which side of the theoretical division one sits.

We have rather different views. Most broody hens will peck at you if you disturb them on a nest. Quite right too. They're trying to hatch eggs and you/we are interfering. I had one broody only I can recall who would let me slide my hand under her body and lift her off the nest without pecking me...

While you have this attitude you are always going to have problems.:confused: Why would a broody hen want to be friendly towards you? Why would any chicken want to be your friend come to that. I've got so much to say on a number of topics I've read on this thread I just don't know where to...

You could pop in at night with a clean white tissue and run it along the underside of the roost bar. You'll get red spots (mites On the tissue) if there are any there.

I had a bantam tribe free ranging in Catalonia along with Marans and crosses. They made a very solid and stable tribe. They took in one Marans cross when the Marans threw her out and Harold, the senior rooster made one very obvious invitation to another single hen a few years later. I liked...

Crush the pellets and make a mash with a little warm water.