Oh Ruby, you are a lucky girl to have such a dedicated mum. It's heart warming to read of such loving care.

Your girls are beautiful Pixie, I do hope they all settle in OK and the slightly poorly lady gets over her congestion. You have been given loads of excellent advice so fingers crossed all will be well. I can't believe the price of your vet. Aren't there any others, maybe one used by the farming comm...

Ah, first chickens. What a lovely experience. Wishing you the best of luck with them although I'm worried they might just be figments of your imagination. We'll only be sure once you or even several dozen pics!

Post by sandy » Yesterday, 21:53 Bridget they are gorgeous I agree with karen, what a superb tail on Portia. I just love all their names too. It is fascinating watching them explore, and the relief when they can all be together Aw thank you Sandy. I am rather smitten with them. Chicken naming is su...

Hey Karen
Your Casper and my Portia and Tessa must never get together. Home invasion won't be enough for them. I'm putting blocks on their iphones.

My wildlife star plant of the year is ivy. We have had a wren, a robin and 2 blackbird nests in different parts of the 'hedge'. Probably there were more than I didn't spot. My neighbour's two young pheasants like to roost in our ivy covered tree and I have seen an owl sitting there. The ivy flowers ...

Hi My veg patch only gets a couple of hours sun and I grow loads of veg. I pretty much agree with what has been said above except for squash and courgettes. I've had the odd crookneck squash but certainly not enough to justify the space. Potatoes, cabbage family, chard, parsnips and runner beans hav...

How's this for how not to keep chickens?
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Oh dear. I just settled down for a catch up of the happenings in your coop and realised you have been having a time of it. Just always remember that your girls have had a remarkable home, had their various ailments expertly treated, and at the end been saved from unnecessary suffering. You're a supe...

Hi Karen I've really enjoyed reading about your exploits. You're such a good chicken owner with all the trouble you take with their vet trips and meds. Mind you, they obviously repay you in spades with the amount of help they give you in the garden. Love the possibility of rose flavoured eggs too. C...

Excited to find this thread. I'm hoping to become a new beek (beekeeper). My plan is to keep them for their pollination prowess rather than as mega honey producers but I'm hoping for some excess honey in a year or two provided all goes well. I've been on two courses so far and have joined a bee grou...

I'm definitely going to explore the rubber coating thing. Nothing's too good for the girls!

Happy Integration at Last Well, after what seems like many hours of chicken refereeing my 13 girls all seem to have found their place in the extended flock. The six new ladies are still sleeping in a separate coop within the Walk-in-Run attached to the big hen house (old shed) but all barriers are ...

I can't remember how I came to decide the dimensions of my existing perch. I know I mooched around the internet a lot and probably got lots of conflicting advice. Anyway, with an increase of chicken numbers it is time for me to put up an additional perch so it is back to internet trawling. I came ac...

New Girls The usual story........... Booked 4 chickens from the BHWT rescue on Saturday and came home with 6. Strange how that always seems to happen! I was only bothered because of the limited space in the small run that they will spend at least half their days in until they all can be together, b...