If it is the pooo , straw and mud ..I have a box with a lid outside my back door under the porch . When it rains my garden is a pile of mud . In the box I keep a spare poop scoop (mine sleep in the nest box ) a small washing up brush , some spray for cleaning and a pair of plasticy clogs quickly put...

Benny & Co..We have had Omlet girls before and lost my first one after 6 months. This Miss |Pepperpot was to replace her + one other a gingernut ranger..I just don't understand how she had lost all her "fluffy knickers" in one week ..and no sign of a feather.

Thanks for your replies ,she seems fine in herself..The bald patch is about as big as a tennis ball .Not sore I don't think .
I have had chickens for a year and not had this before ..
They have mealworms , and their own eggs shells.

I have managed to bath Eva today after still having a poopy bum...Now I have found her bum has no feathers at all (oven ready ) It really looks sad.I was quite upset. No feathers came off in the bathing water and I have not noticed any feather plucking, none in the nest box or Walk-in-Run .... Help!...

I have managed to bath Eva today after still having a poopy bum...Now I have found her bum has no feathers at all (oven ready ) It really looks sad.No feathers came off in the bathing water and I have not noticed any feather plucking... Help! I don't know why this is .I have only had poor girl a wee...

My 2 new girls are in 1 run the old girls in another .There is only chicken wire between them ..It has been a week now and although they mixed for a bit on Sunday with only success while the meal worms lasted they have not mixed since. The question I need to know is ,the new girls are not phased at ...

Thank you for your replies but she is so nervous at the moment I can't catch her to bath her.. I think I will try to trim it tonight when it is dusk and she has her feather in the air.

One of my new girls a Miss Pepperpot has a really poopy bottom. She laid her egg this morning before I had a chance to clear the nest box out as her new little friend slept in there. I can not catch her as she is still so nervous and I am going to try and snip it off when she is eating meal worms .....

My 2 "old girls" don't like carrot , cabbage (unless it is cooked) shame as we have 2 allotments full of it, they don't like lettuce much which is good as it gives them the poops.They are not that keen on pellets but will eat them if nothing else. They love sweetcorn, tomato ,pasta , cooke...

Lovely to hear such good news. You hear of so many stories of disasters it is nice to have a nice result .

Good luck ! xx

Everything is on course I think ... We did as someone suggested and let them all out together tonight at dusk for about 15 minutes. All went quite well I scattered some meal worms about and 2 "oldies" Poppy and Clover and 1 "newby" Eva mixed in together side by side hoovering , h...

Thank you for your reply but I would still like to know if it would be safer to keep tiny Rose in longer or go for it and hope to have a swift What you said makes sense..I always thought that Poppy (the screamer) was bottom chick ,then her friend Florry died and she and My other Miss pepperpot latch...

We had our new girls Eva a Miss Pepperpot and Rose a very tiny Ginger ranger on Monday ,they are in seperate Walk-in-Run from the "old girls"but close together and does not seem to be a lot of pecking etc.,between the netting except a lot of screaming from one of our other 2 girls (this ha...

I think you get more sometimes from chickens than you do with people

If I have a problem which is not often , I can be assured that a few moments with or watching my girls puts things in prespective..Would not change them for anything.

After a dreadful day yesterday with my 2 lovely "old girls "making such a fuss about having new neighbours ,I started today with dread.The old girls poppy and clover came out of their coup screaming but after 10 minutes or so it stopoped.A good job as I had to go to work for the morning . ...