And they say chicken keeping is so easy

Well we have now had our hens for just over a week and it's been a lot of fun and a lot of stress too Worrying all week about Mia and her limp has been quite stressful with us not being experienced with hens. Then last night one of our other hens Coco suddenly started limping. It was only when we ma...

It's hot here too. I gave mine an ice pop yesterday but they just stood and looked at it and walked away. Today I gave them a bowl of frozen peas and they seemed to like them and I guess as they were nice and cold they cooled them down a bit. I've got 2 shades on top of the run and a towel too but y...

We've just put ours up today. The hardest bit was working out where to put it. It says to site it no closer than 15 metres from where you want the flies to not go. If we put it 15 metres away it's too near the house, so we've put it up in a magnolia tree about half way down the garden and already th...

Thanks Wendy

I also took a pic of Coco's bum as I'm sure it was full of bald patches last week and now it's all lovely and downy, in fact they all seem to be getting a lot of down on them

Here is the latest pic of Mia's bruise, it looks so much better now http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b27/littlebrooklyn/Ex%20Batts/Photo-0010.jpg Also a little video of her trying to walk, I'm sure she is now putting a bit of weight on that leg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b27/littlebrooklyn/E...

Blue eggs, green eggs, they sound and look just gorgeous. I didn't even know hens could lay eggs that colour till I saw on here. I am used to just brown or white eggs

Well I think I trust the advice on here most of all so I'm going to just do a wait and see and try to stop being such a worry bead.

I will try and take another pic of her later on to see if it looks any better

Well it's now nearly a week since we got Mia and she is still the same. I phoned the BHWT this morning and they said to wait till next week and see how she is. I'm still worried, I've had someone PM me on another forum and tell me that her pelvis could be fractured or her leg broken and that has wor...

I haven't done a big clean yet as it hasn't been a week since I got my hens. However so far what I am doing is cleaning out the plastic tray under the roosting bars every morning and just putting clean paper back in. I also pick any bits of poo out of the wood shavings in the nest box. I have been t...

I think they say limestone flour is a good source of calcium for them too, I'm sure someone else on here will know

I tried to hand feed mine a piece of pizza yesterday that my granddaughter wouldn't eat. I gently sat by the edge of the run and sat with it in my hand. One of the hens ran over and grabbed it out of hand and the main part of it fell on the floor of the run and they were all scrapping over some tiny...

My run has been full of flies all week

i did wonder if it might be a little difficult to reach the eggs, but i suppose it's really made for the girl's benefit and not ours good idea to have one on legs though, my OH built ours on legs and its so easy for cleaning etc., i have to agree with everyone on the forum it is ssooo addictive kee...

I've bought one, but I'm not sure where you are supposed to hang it. It's still in it's bag in the conservatory. The dog hasn't noticed it yet thank goodness