Thats fabulous Angela x

I was having this conversation a couple of weeks ago...:( Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I wish we'd built both the duck and chicken runs as weldmesh 'boxes' - top, sides and bottom - & backfilled the run floor with soil.. Our cats regularily catch rats so I realy wouldnt want to poison the...

Mood swings, stroppy? OMG a menopausal chicken....

Brilliant

They look fabulous!! love the colours too

I've got my old lady to eat again by making up a porridge of layers mash, oats, sardenes or fishy cat food, etc I also added some honey and live jogurt. I found adding something she really liked ie peas or sweetcorn got her interested, I must admit I put a bit of cooked spagetti in there at one stag...

They all become part of our lives and our family dont they, and leave huge voids when they are gone.. Thats 10 years of love and care, and having recently said goodbye to your horse Saintly you must be feeling pretty low at the moment. I wish there was something I could say to make you feel better G...

Dont give up just yet - chickens can and do often bounce back after looking horribly sick,

"I'll make tea tonight" said OH.. Great I thought, and carried on with my sewing...

Next thing I know a chinese meal is delivered!!!!

What part of 'accounting for every penny and seeing how little we can manage on' did he not understand???

I have realised today that I have a whole cupboard full of different (mainly fruit/herb) teas - literally boxes and boxes of them So, my frugal feb head thought no more buying tea or coffee until I have got through it all but to keep it real (I don't drink much fruit tea!) I think I may just replac...

I had the same experience as some of the others on here. We'd introduced several new chickens to the old flock and although they were integrated and fine in the run, they insisted on sleeping in sepperate coops. One by one the new girls decided to sleep in the 'big coop' but a couple refused, so I s...

I'd say go for two aswell, once they come face to face one would be the 'only' focus for the resident chooks...

Awww bless you Pepi... they know how to get us in panic mode dont they???

Well I hope you get sorted very quickly and that you're recovery is super quick!! You seem to be so busy all the time I think it take an awful lot to keep you still

It sounds as though you are doing absolutley everything you can for your little chook... I'm keeping everything crossed for you both