Cheers all, I am sure kindness and good wishes will help.

Thanks

One of my light sussex's has been under the weather: not eating, sleepy, going blind and loosing weight. I foresaw that there was no positive outcome for this bird and decided I would do the necessary so as not to have it suffer. As a last ditch effort to try and get her eating I mixed up some mash,...

Thanks all for your replies. Interesting points. One thing I might have solved is the sleeping on the floor. I have a deep bed of straw with some sheets of newspaper on top. The news paper crackles of course and makes it uncomfortable so tonight they all appear to be up on perches.

Despite having ample perching space, one of my birds keeps sleeping in and fouling one of the two nest boxes. I pop out and give her a shove out of the box but she always slips back in and soils the nest. I can't close off access to the boxes because two of the other birds make proper use of them be...

One of my babes has shown occasional signs of broodiness. Yesterday I shoved her out of the nest box and was surprised then to see her continuing to show nest building behaviour. She was plucking up strands of dried straw and flinging the behind her. It all looked very unusual and surmised that she ...

My White Sussex's feathers are looking somewhat dull at the moment. The poor feather have a browinsh tinge and are on their rumps. A fellow chicken keeper has blamed the weather saying the lack sunshine affects their feather condition. There appears to be nothing else wrong with them - they are layi...

Apologies if I am posting in the wrong forum, but I was wondering about electric fencing. All the research I have done (coupled with little I know about electricity -not a lot) suggests that the body making the contact has to make a connection between a charged wire and the ground in order to create...