Thank you all, it has been most helpful.

Phil

Now you've got me there, I just presumed a chicken that is point of lay is around 18 months old. As you can tell I'm certainly no expert; put it this way when I purchased them from The Domestic Fowl lot, it was at point of lay, in that it didn't start laying for a couple of weeks. She looked pretty ...

Thanks Alan, actually one of the kids asked whether we could eat her!! Obviously kids only suffer from short term bereavement.

Thanks for replying.

Phil

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me? Our 2-year-old hybrid chicken has just given up the ghost, leaving two very unhappy children. We are left with two others, who are fit and well (chicken that is!) The question I have is why did it die? It was not the best of layers from the start. We actually p...

They are just past point of lay, in fact we are getting a few huge eggs, almost duck eggs size. The photo next to my ID are 2 of them.

Cheers

Phil

Thanks John,

Will do.

P

Thanks for that John,

I'll get down to the grain store this week.

Phil

Hi Chantal

Thanks for replying, yes they do have a roof! I like the bubble wrap idea and as for the pop hole, I will start shutting it from now on. I will pass this on to my mother, who I hope will stop nagging me.

Cheers

Phil

Hello, We've recently purchased a few chickens and wondered if someone could give us some advice as to whether they need some sort of heating during the night? At the moment, they have a good size pen, on stilts, off the ground. I have sprinkled a layer of straw over the base (mainly for binding the...