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Hi everyone. Dedicated chicken keeper here - currently with a flock of around 20 free-ranging birds, but a bizarre wild game bird problem. A couple of days ago I noticed an extra bird in the garden and around the areas where my girls eat. Upon closer inspection I believe it to be a juvenile...

Hello everyone, I am looking for any advice or opinions that might help me with a bird that I have who is not eating very much, and is effectively starving herself to death. I have a production red chicken two and a half years old. She has always been bright, healthy and happy, as well as a...

I am confused (and a bit concerned) about the wet mash I have been feeding my girls recently. When I first started keeping chickens I gave them free access to dry layer pellets. They didn't eat a lot, but as they free-range in a 1000m² garden (for 8 chickens) I assumed that was normal, as...

I rescued two red sex link chickens from a neighbour in January this year. They are two and a half to three years old, and were not kept in the best of conditions (poor food and a small muddy run). When I got them I noticed one had a sort of keyhole pupil - but it's more of a stain than an...

I am worried about a chicken that I recently acquired from a neighbour who lives about 800 metres away. She was bought four point of lay pullets by her family two years ago, because she'd "always had a dream of keeping chickens". She very quickly found that four was two many for her, and gave...

I am not quite sure if this is the right forum for this question, but I think it may be a question of chicken breed or genetics, so hopefully someone here may have an answer for me. I recently bought some day old sexed Sussex chicks from a breeder, who keeps Light Sussex and Gold Lace...

I got my 3 point of lay pullets about 14 months ago, and have been browsing BYC ever since - it's full of so much interesting and useful information from the other members. However, in the last couple of months I have found some - literally - life saving information, for which I will be...

Hi, I'm worried about my 14 month old pullet - Blackie. She's always had normal pink legs and feet, but in the last few weeks I've noticed that they've started to turn a blue/grey colour - like the skin is dying or something. I picked her up this evening and felt her legs - they don't feel...

Ok, this is a bit bizarre, but a couple of days ago I went out to check for eggs, and one of the girls was on the nest, but had something dark and fluffy underneath her. When I looked closer, I found it was a dead blue tit. I can't quite work it out. The coop is next to my potting shed...

Hello, I am brand new to the art of chicken keeping, and have just invested in three point of lay chooks. I bought them from a local farm supplies shop, which receives regular deliveries from local breeders. However, all they could tell me was that I had a red chicken, a black one and a grey...

Hello, I've just joined the forum because I bought three point of lay chooks about 3 weeks ago. Up until now they've been fine, but three or four days ago when I let them out I heard the grey one (I don't know what breed they are - they were sold to me by colour!) making a really weird...