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Chicken Health

• Selecting Birds

  01/09/2010
  When choosing your birds think about sizes obviously its not a good idea to place large fowl with bantams so make sure your hens will be roughly the same size...

• Food and Water

  27/08/2010
  As a rule it’s best to locate feeders inside the chicken coop...

• Housing

  25/08/2010
  The more space and freedom you can give your birds the better, be it free range or in a moveable run and coop...

• Tips to Spot Healthy Birds - Part 2

  22/10/2010
  Crop: Feel their crop at the base of the neck...

• Fresh Water

  17/09/2010
  When it comes to giving fresh water to your chickens give them the best husbandry levels you can...

• 10 Poultry Facts

  29/09/2010
  10 Useful Poultry Facts...

• More Useful Facts

  01/10/2010
  More Useful Chicken facts...

• Tips to Spot Healthy Birds - Part 1

  22/10/2010
  Comb: A red comb is a sign of good health; young pullets can have pale faces so combs should at least be pink...

• Bedding - Part 1

  22/10/2010
  There are lots of choices when it comes to what bedding to choose for your chicken coop...

• Bedding - Part 2

  22/10/2010
  Straw is acceptable and is also cheap...

• Feeding Chickens - Part 1

  22/10/2010
  The main staple of your hens diet should be layers pellets or mash...

• Feeding Chickens - Part 2

  22/10/2010
  Correct feed should be given to give your hens a healthy life, to produce feathers and of course to keep a regular supply of eggs...

• Ex-battery hens the coop winners as suburban Scots seek Good Life

  10/01/2011
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• Adding new hens to an existing chicken coop

  19/01/2011
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• Spring Clean Your Chicken Coop

  26/01/2011
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• Red Mite Treatment And Prevention Within The Chicken Coop

  30/01/2011
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• Tips to Help New Hens Settle In

  01/02/2011
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• Getting New Hens

  02/02/2011
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