Category Archives: Chickens

Our first winter with chickens, the winter before last, we had a real problem with rats getting into the run. I wanted to keep rats out for several reasons. I like to leave the chicken food dishes out because in … Continue reading →

Yesterday we noticed that Honey looked very subdued. She was fluffed up with her head down and looking sorry for herself. I then noticed Amber didn’t look much happier. On a closer inspection I could see that they had been … Continue reading →

With all the grown up girls at various stages of their moult Sparkle has been our only girl still laying for the last three weeks. She is starting to lose a few feathers now and her egg laying is slowing. … Continue reading →

  Honey and Amber are now moulting with drifts of feathers flurrying from them with every movement. There are feathers in the coop in the mornings and I am constantly picking up feathers from the run. The good news is … Continue reading →

I just love Peaches and Barley’s opposite flopping combs and love that I can tell them apart at a glance now. They look so funny straight on. Barley is on the left and Peaches on the right. Barley is easier … Continue reading →

A while ago my friend Jackie gave me a bag of leaves for the girls. With my attention focused on Emerald I had forgotten that I had put them in the shed for later. It’s been wet and miserable today … Continue reading →

It’s been very slow but Emerald is beginning to look better. On Wednesday when we saw that her legs were trembling I knew that I had to get her to keep on eating absolutely anything that she would to keep … Continue reading →

I was so worried about Emerald that I went back to the vet today and asked for antibiotics for her. I am afraid to leave it any longer as she is just not getting better and seems more lethargic. The … Continue reading →

Today is day seven of the flubenvet. Emerald is still gaping although not so much. I tried to look inside her beak and it is just pink. What really worries me is that she is so lethargic. She has her … Continue reading →

I am still really worried about Emerald. I talked to the vet on Friday about her. I described her symptoms and he agreed that it sounds like gape worm. He also agreed that Flubenvet was the treatment and that it … Continue reading →