I've grown some whopping sun flowers this year. I know the birds love the seads from the heads when they've died off but could I give the whole seed head to my girls?

Think I've just found this if it't the clever chicken coop company. It looks pretty good

Hi Lorna, I'd be interested to look at the American coop. Do you have a link?

That's great, thanks Sandy I'll have a look. The only problem is I was showing my hubbie last night and he was concerned about the ladder as it seemed quite steep. We have one girls who's really big, heavy and ploddy and he's worried how she'd get up and down especially with the rungs being open. Ha...

Sandy that's spooky, I've just been looking at that online and was going to ask if anyone had one and what they thought. It seems expensive but maybe in the long run it may work out better with having no maintenance to do. We've only got 4 girls at the moment, would they be lost in it? We may get an...

Being new last year to chicken keeping we purchased a coop online which seemd OK when we got it but we're not sure it'll last another winter and I'm also paranoid about the dreaded red mite as it's got a felt roof We therefore thought'd we'd look at getting a new coop for the winter and thought a pl...

Congratulations! I was married there too, lovely church isn't it Yes we use Leas, they're really good aren't they and have everything you should need. There's also a place in Shavington called Taylor's Choice not they don't have quite so much I don't think. Maybe see you in Leas sometime - we'll hav...

Hey Simon, I'm in Haslington - very close to you We put some shading on our run so they're OK when we're at work but as soon as I let them out when I get home a lot of the garden is in shade so they love to dust bathe then. I've been putting a tin of chopped tomato's in the fridge and giving them so...

They could be red ants. We get lots of them in the summer, absolutely tiny things that just appear from nowhere. I don't think they bite or anything just leave a red blob if you squash one

Great, thanks for the replies. I'll get some cod liver oil today

Advice please We've had our girls since last August and Ranger is the friendliest, liveliest and most inquisitive of our four girls. She's laid consistantly since we've had her and some really, really big eggs. Just over a month ago we had an incident with her where she hadn't laid in the morning, b...

We've just been on holiday for a few days and before we went we thought we'd leave the girls some grass as they would be in the run for the majority of the time apart from about an hour a day while my mum and dad were there. We lay some turf and this is how it looked when they were first allowed on ...

I've just been reading through this post with interest. Luckily I haven't had to face this problem yet. I'm interested in the scrambled egg remedy though - what is this good for?

I think I'd be more worried about foxes using the branches to get in as I'm sure there must be some roaming in a graveyard Sorry to be doom and gloom!

Thanks for all you support - I know they'll be fine but just can't help being a whittering chicken mum. I'll have to make a real effort not to drive my hubby potty while we're away but he's nearly as bad as me