She has died, her crop was empty so I dont know what it was, yesterday she really perked up , drank loads and ate some meal worms and I really thought she had turned a corner....but as I have frequently heard in my job it was the magic window where a sick soul appears to get better then goes rapidly...

Margaret is in a box in the kitchen she looks dead but she isnt, I dont think it will be long though.Despite best efforts nothing worked. Right now I feel like giving up on keeping chickens, she was my last ex batt...a fox got the other two They were with me for a year, they were lovely ladies and I...

She is worse today, cramped up and not eating, I am contacting a vet that has been recommended to me when I get home from work, I put her in a minute ago and a lot of fluid came out her beak , it was smelly.The back end is ok now...I have a bad feeling about this.Gutted!

Oh please teach away...... I need all the help I can get. Thank you i will call around.

we dont have a bird vet ...they havent a clue.

she doesnt lay hasnt for months....and she is def off her food...eating lettuce but ignoring meal worms which is a big deal cos she loves them...will be treating with yoghurt and apple vinegar incase its thrush...she is still walking cramped over..

Ok..I washed her bum and its now clean but today she is walking tail down and cramped still eating though...starting to get worried.

I have a ex batt who is to all intents is a fat happy hen but her back end is filthy its black and wet.However in the hen house where she sleeps its clean, well its not black just the usual poo from the other two. Any ideas.

That's a No then........ ? Pity ... I was thinking all sorts of colours. AAh welll.....

I have a squash growing! I don't know if it will continue to grow but it's about 2 inches long! Probably to late in the year now but hey at least I got one.....

Does anyone have an idiot proof knitting pattern for a chicken sweater that doesn't involve crochet ? My friend has two bald chickens and arthritis in her fingers so she can't do it.....the ones on the Internet all seem to need a crochet hook and I haven't a clue.....it's jolly nippy in Portsmouth a...

What rotten luck!! I don't know anything as I am staff to 3 ex batts I got only 3 months ago... Im sure someone in the know will be along shortly, BUT I do know your girls have had a happy 2 years when they had the luck to fall into your hands......and that's wonderful. Hope things improve. The litt...

Why can I never grow Butternut squash? i grow the plants ok and they have flowers but thats it...the bit that should become the squash goes brown and drops off!! I have tried numerous times and locations in the garden, glass covered in boxes, green house and conservatory but all the same results??? ...

I live in slugville ,they are the size of small manhole covers,they congregate around the pots of beer I put out to drown them in their dozens ,and when they make it out after drinking their own body weight in bitter....the raucous singing and language is shocking! They come from miles around in hun...

oh Crickey!! Fingers crossed.x