Chicken Health – The Garden Smallholder

Poultry Worms

From time to time your chickens will get worms, and not just the juicy kind they find in the garden. They’ll also get intestinal

Around this time of year, when our chickens are going through their late autumn moult, coops and pens resemble a

My beautiful Speckledy hen is feeling under the weather at the moment, it’s a complicated situation not made any easier

I found 3 fairy eggs and 1 normal size egg in total during the first 2 weeks of the new rescue hens being

Does my chicken have a cold? Sneezing accompanied by discharge from the nostrils are commonly referred to as a ‘chicken cold’. However,

I’m really sad to announce that my bluebelle hen, Myrtle, passed away today at the tender age of 17 months.

Healthy chickens are quite hardy in normal winter weather conditions, here are some tips to help keep them happy in winter: Combs

It’s fair to say I’ve experienced my fair share of chicken problems, ranging from feather pecking, fatal diseases, egg related

Occasionally I look at my site stats to see which search terms are finding my blog. I tend to see

Keeping chickens in the garden is rewarding and can be educational too if you have young children helping with their day-to-day

One of our hens has been lying down a lot more than usual during the day, prompting us to check