Hi , Thank you for help/ I let the girls and boys free range the garden . It is a balancing act of fox / dogs . A few tail feathers because they eat her diner against head missing or looked up all day. Mastif is pretty good and as you say do not trust the natural instincts .4 cockerels 1 older than ...

Hi all again , The lovelly lady from FRESH START FOR HENS , has just written saying that foxes have had 4 chickens in her neighbourhood in the last few days . Are the foxes doing a` captains ` job and working out a system . If a seasoned chicken saver area is suffering then we all best be very caref...

Hi , this my second attemp as just hit the ESCAPE button by accident......... Well I did say thanks , I have a roof of wire on run , it is the large size chicken wire . so as to ensure as safe as possibly doubling it with 1 inch so smasller and more wire to get through .Latest on the my attempt to k...

Hi all , as a newbie , can someone advise how many cockerels to hens is a good ratio. I have 4 bantam coocks (rescued ) and at the moment 19 very pretty hens . I have 4 more coming on 13 th. There seems enough hens to keep the boys happy , not sure the hens appreciate the attention . Next some of th...

Hi Karen , Thank you for your note. All good advice . My girls are spoilt I decided . I put a cabbage in the the perch / branches . Hardly touched . I got a knife and shreded it and they where eating as fast asd I cut it up ,including the middle bit. I let them out in the garden for a few hours toda...

Hi , thank you , you have made me smile . It made me think of follow the leader , cat chickens dog human trying to eat/stop the cat with mouse . it is dark now and they should be all in the coops ,I will disturb them for eggs and treats so as they are notneglected. I will let them out tomorrow to ru...

It is me again . Question for those in the know . If I keep the girls locked up for long periods (12 hour shifts so night s ok but days just not around . ) What TOYS /PLAY THINGS can I give them to keep them amused . Do not want them to 1. eat eggs 2 peck each other to bits . 3 squads with another 4...

Hi all , sad news on the chicken front.Not mine though. All ok there ,but they are a little annoyed as being in run and coops all day/night.Firstly my lexie the male cat caught a baby rat in the run Mon evening . I managed to take it off him to his obvious non understanding . It died a few hours lat...

Hi all, hope all well in the chicken world. Sat I went to Bury st. ds market let the hens all roam free with dogs to keep a eye on. The traffic was terrible and caused a delay all round and did not get home till 6.00pm.(dark ) I found note on my table chicken in nieighbours garden..... Coop was all ...

I am days next week I grab the company camera and get somebody to send . Bob . I am not up to date with chicken breeding yet as only upto digestion system on my poultry course . I presume the girls and boys dont need any help . Certainly entertaining watch tghe boys tricks and the boss girls telling...

Hi , It looks like I will have to keep the Somme look or maybe the moon crater lanscape .

Hi all , All well at coops , girls and boys had a full day out playing .I managed to get fruit that was passed sell by , grapes large bowl for a pound . tray bananas 1 pound . I managed to eat a few but the girls took a fancy to them . The same beaks at the door jumping up two feet to help themselve...

Hi , I have cockerels , probably through winter whilst all the windows are shut Summer all bets will be off. At the moment they are trying hard at 5.30am /6.00am to out do each other. Thinking of sound proofing the coop . Fence is up 7 foot tall. Will be soon putting double padlocks on the run doors...

Hi all , all fun today. Had to keep them in the run as they where filling the fence holes in and getting under feet , it was the forks and shovels that got them excited . Once the fence was down it was exploring time and after retrieving them too many times , I said enough . They where like voluture...

Hi, My girls hang aroung the pond. Frogs have no chance, Karen ( whom must be obeyed ) saw the rush around the garden with the lead hen legs hanging out of beak . no chance of retrieving it.They also pull the bread out of the fish pond , you can see on the faces standing on the rocks watching where ...