Laying Slowing Down & Care with Feeding
As autumn arrives with the daylength reducing, egg laying slows down. The hens need the right diet to lay well and be healthy, so limit the treats.
Poultry & Chicken Blog
Ducks, Chickens, Quail in the Back Garden
Poultry Blog - My Chicken Diary
My day to day diary
Hens in Space! Alien Hens Land!
Some fun pictures of hens on a spaceship in the future and a little bit about the history of hens in space. Plus evidence hens come from another planet.
Ethical Considerations Regarding Rodenticides – Rat Poisons
An email from a reader about an article on the web site raises some ethical points about how we handle controlling vermin like rats.
Helping a Fellow Bird Out
Sometimes chickens can really surprise you, I didn't expect mine to act as they did when they saw a cat trying to catch a blackbird.
Hot weather, stopping the hens escaping.
Hot hens but they're happy enough, spoiling them with garden waste, roof repairs to the run and putting a new fence around the main run.
How Many Eggs – Feeding Cat Food to Hens
Answering some chicken questions. How many eggs should my hens be laying and should I feed my hens cat food or dog food to help them get through the moult.
Cleaning and Feeding Hens
Cleaning the coop is a weekly 10 minute job but the run takes a few hours every few months. The thin eggs problem sorted and the hens are now getting their treats again along with their feed.
Watch Out – There’s a Fox About
Most of us rarely see a fox and they tend to be dead on the side of the road. In my whole life, I can only recall seeing a fox twice. That doesn't mean they're not about though. Foxes are shy and elusive creatures. Because we don't see them, we might think there aren't any around. But they are around.
Poultry Keeping Books Clearance
A surplus stock clearance of poultry keeping books including incubation, hatching and rearing, starting with ducks, starting with turkeys, starting with geese and organic poultry. When they're gone, they are gone.
Training Chickens, Pasture Maintenance & Thin Eggs
You can train your chickens a bit! Fixing the pasture run that they've left bare after the winter and a thin egg problem. Solutions for thin eggs.
