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…
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Poultry
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
OUR MAY ISSUE IS OUT NOW!
The latest issue of Your Chickens is on sale in the shops today
April 14, 2014
£300 VERM-X GIVEAWAY!
The great Verm-x giveaway
April 10, 2014
Won over…
James Marshall, from Taunton in Somerset, was initially unsure about keeping chickens. But now he is an enthusiastic keeper
April 9, 2014
Lay Lady Lay
Do your chickens play hide and seek with their eggs? Here’s how to make sure your hens lay only in the nest box and nowhere else
April 9, 2014
Hattie shows you how to…
... make great bolied eggs with soldiers
April 9, 2014
WONKY FACE
A chick that decided to be that little bit different
April 9, 2014
Music makes for bigger eggs
A New Zealand vineyard has discovered that playing classical music to its resident hens has made their eggs noticeably larger
April 9, 2014
HEALTH HAZARDS – WATER
Water is often called the forgotten nutrient: continuous access to clean water is a vital part of chickens’ health and egg production.
