First of all, thanks for taking the time to post the kind messages. Just a little update on my ladies new home. All went well, picked them up while roosting so they hardly gave a cheep, gave each one a little cuddle before popping them into the cage and set off with wife and dog to deliver them. Lad...

First of all, many many thanks to all our Hen lovers on here who took the time to PM me. I was chuffed to bits with all the kind offers of a home for my 12 ladies, thank you all again. I am very lucky to have found a fellow chuck lover only a mile from where I live, thanks to DTL. I shall sneak into...

Well the time has come. First we were moving to Scotland, and thinking of giving the chooks away. That all fell through and we continued to be chicken keepers in our old house. But now we have a small bungalow and with no way of keeping our chooks at all. So we live near Barnsley South Yorks, any on...

I have two Black Rocks which at this moment in time look almost oven ready due to the moult, I can't figure out why they shed at this time of the year. Last week in the snow and frost I was worried for them, but they were fine. Their hut is just a hut with no special coverings, draught proof with wo...

My best buy was the auto pop hole jobby. Opens on its own when morning light dawns, closes in the evening as it grows dark. Best buy ever.

Regards.

Phil*

I was told my Black Rocks could live till 8 or 9?.

Phil*

Wood shavings or paper out of a shredder for my girls.

Phil*

They do get under your skin dont they. At least she knew freedom - thanks to you.

Phil*

It is VERY quiet at the bottom of the garden this morning, all the ladies are scratching around and seem fine and dandy. I wondered if they would be missing their male escorts, but it seems not. It makes a change to feed up witout having the Rhody Rooster clinging to the back of my trousers and tryi...

Well, after a few months of trying to "get rid" of my Roosters (since they began to crow) I can report they have gone to a farm. Peace and quiet is here at last. I am so glad they did not end up as my dinner, I believe my wife has kept our small freezer full so as to stop 3 Roosters fittin...

I would go with Black Rocks or ISA Brown (Warrens)

Phil*

When I visited the local farm shop at the weekend, they had loads of Kale, huge plants with tons of leaf on them. I selected the largest and struggled to get it through the car door because of its size. At home I tossed it into the Chicken area where it was attacked by the Chooks, 12 hens and 3 roos...

I think we may worry a little too much about our girls in this bad weather. I think of the very very small wild birds that survive these kind of temperatures, and do not get the attention we give to our Chooks. Picked 7 eggs from my 12 girls this afternoon, so they sem to be ok. Well done them. Phil*

Phil*

Sorry to say, but the only good rat is a dead one IMHO. Shoot or poison is my favourite way. Its a shame to wage war on the black rat, Rattus rattus or the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus but Wild rats can carry many different "zoonotic" pathogens, such as e.g. Leptospira, Toxoplasma gondii a...