My OH has gone down to Boots in town to get some Arnica cream as that's the only place that I think is open on a Sunday who might have it. I have just emptied our Summer House and put newspaper and wood chippings on the floor and thought maybe it would be better if Mia is in there where the other he...

Well all 4 hens survived the night, although one tried to escape as we were trying to encourage them into their coop and landed in the pond, twice! Hardly got any sleep and my OH and I were both up at about 4.30am to open the coop and check on them. They were all snuggled up in there and took some t...

I don't have any arnica, but I know it's a homeopathic remedy, so is that one just for pets or a general one I can get from the chemist We have called our girls Lola, Coco, Bella and Mia. They have met our chocolate labrador dog and they were fine with her. Not sure she is very impressed by them, bu...

Sorry to hear that, what has being going on with yours?

My other half picked up our hens this afternoon. We were going to have 3 but he came home with 4. Anyway one has quite a bad limp and the other 3 seem to be at one end of the run doing their thing and she is on her own. I feel awful, I really don't know what to do. I have tried to phone the rescue p...

Hi Rhubarb, well right now I am a little concerned as one our hens has a bad limp and is just hopping around the run and I'm not sure that she will be able to get into the coop later on. So far I have managed to get all the food and water all over the run as the bowls obviously aren't heavy enough a...

Hi Rhubarb, we aren't picking ours up till 3.45pm, so I guess you will have collected yours by then. It's a fair distance from us as we in Herts and none of the collection points are near to us, I would say it's at least an hour on the M25. Thankfully as cars these days have a/c they will be nice an...

Hi Rhubarb, where are you getting your hens from tomorrow? We are getting ours from the BHWT and the pick up is in Surrey. Yes it is a very weird feeling, that mixture of excitement and well yes fear I guess. I wanted to get hens after reading an article in the Daily Mail quite some time ago, but my...

Thanks for your replies. I am so excited about getting the hens, but also a bit worried too as not sure what condition they are likely to be in. I have heard some of them need sun tan lotion so they don't burn if they have feathers missing I have a couple of small bowls from my parrot cage that I ha...

I haven't got my hens yet, but due to pick up 3 ex batts tomorrow and have never had hens before. So I have my coop and run all set up with woodchips in the run but I don't know what to do about a dust bath and grit. I keep reading about dust baths and I have filled a large metal dog bowl with soil ...