April 25, 2014
How long will battery hens live?
I am thinking of taking on some ex-battery hens. How old are they when they come out of the battery cages and how long will they live after that, on average? I would love to…
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Poultry
April 25, 2014
Is this a case of egg-binding?
Q - One of my hens showed signs of what I thought was egg-binding. She spent a lot of time on the nest and, when outside, she sat with lowered tail and rear end yet…
April 25, 2014
The Good Life – Keeping Poultry
Keeping chickens is often the first step on the road to ‘the good life’
April 25, 2014
Vets Forum – Scouring
I remember a case of a hen with watery green/white scouring for which you recommended an antibiotic,but I can’t find the back number. My hen is about three years old. She’s been a little scoury…
April 25, 2014
Avoiding sour ground
I have three hens which are in an ark attached to a pen which is 7’ 7”. The hens are let out every day and are in the pen/ark at night and the odd afternoon…
April 25, 2014
Poultry – winter moults
Q - We bought some Wyandotte bantams in early August last year at six-seven weeks old. We started them off on chick crumbs (they also have a source of grit), as that was what they had…
April 25, 2014
Safe eggs?
I wonder if you can help me please – I’ve three bantam chicks, living with their mother and two other hens in an Eglu. We leave out chick crumbs for the chicks and layers’ pellets…
April 25, 2014
Cyst
I am writing to you in the hope that you can offer some advice about a two-year old Sussex Utility hen which appears to have developed a cyst. In September 2005, I noticed a small…
April 25, 2014
Why do hens crowd into just one nest box?
Why do all my hens try to crowd into one nest box even though I have provided four for my six hens? Keith Maslem, by email
April 15, 2014
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April 14, 2014
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