[pepsi100]

I am away at the moment, my wife is looking after my hens, she has sent me an email about one of them, it seems to have the 'runs' (its very runny and there is a lot of it) has anyone any suggestions on what I can tell her to buy to help cure it ?
thanks

[mohs.ayaz]

Give her some garlic or if u have apple cider vinegar. Garlic is bery good for them. When its really cold or if my chooks get cold i boil the eggs and just feed them 1 each every other day for few days it works.

[pepsi100]

How do you give a hen garlic ?
I think I can get the apple vinegar though, I have a 3 liter water bottle for them, how much would I use ?

[splash101]

You can put garlic in the water. I put in a couple of cloves sliced in half. Given the chance they would and have picked it out and eaten it.

Have they been wormed recently

[Sassy]

You want the unrefined apple vinegar not the stuff you get in the supermarket. You should be able to get it from shops that sell horse feed.

[pepsi100]

thanks, I have passed it on to the missus,told her to try the garlic until she can get the apple vineger, (only place she can get that is pets are us)

[grinling]

Are they free ranging in the garden at the moment or within the last week, if not has she given them any greens within the last 2 days.
Is the hen hunched up or staying by herself. Is she still laying.

[grinling]

Also get her to log onto this site.

[pepsi100]

Dont really know, but they are just in the run as far as I know, she hasnt given em any greens yet, but they have had cooked rice as a treat  (when its cold) these are the birds I bought and in my previous posts

[ANHBUC]

I would advise to cut out all treats and just feed them on their pellets which is a balanced diet for them.  They tend to fill up on things that have little to no benefit to their diet.   

You can add boiled water to the pellets as a porridge on a cold day.

[pepsi100]

I have taken them off the chick crumbs, now on grower mash (they turned their beaks up at pelletsm in a month or so they will go onto layers mash
the missus has got the vinegar and now its a case of wait and see

[joyfull]

it is also illegal to feed them the cooked rice.
When was the hens last wormed? and what with?

[pepsi100]

why is is against the law to feed chickens cooked rice ? says who ?

They also have porridge as well

It is not ilegal an ill eagle is a sick bird

i have given all my hens cooked rice, ever since I have lept them, they enkoy oit, never seemed to do em any harm

They had been wormed when I bought theml dont think they need reworming,

[ANHBUC]

I think joyfull is referring to it being illegal to feed poultry anything that has been in your kitchen.  You would have to store and then cook the rice away from your kitchen to stay within the law.

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=100729.0

 

[pepsi100]

yeah right, like that is going to happen, my wife cooks rice, she does extra, what we dont eat, they do, its all done in a pressure cooker, put on a plate and their bowl, they might even get any leftovers we dont eat,

The same as the porridge, do a bit extra, they get some, we get some

It's not as if we are eating from the hens feeding bowl, we have our own plates

still like to know who says its against the law though

I suppose I could make a fire in the garden, cook the rice just for them, then ask them how they would like it served (as if)