[Kym503]

Hello and pleased to meet you all.  I've recently joined this site having bought 6 chickens 5 weeks ago and have already learnt lots and lots from reading all your postings! Thanks you all for sharing your advice and thoughts.

My 5 girls (2 x Sussex Lights, 1x Sussex Silver, 2x Bovan Neras and one brown one - I think she's a Rhode Star (that's what it says on the invoice!)are now 21 weeks and are laying 5 eggs a day.  All have settled in and are very friendly.

However - I've noticed the Sussex Silver seems to have strange poo.  she does a normal one - steps forward a few paces and then squirts out a quanity of light brown fluid.  She's feeding well, eyes bright, nice sheen to the feathers and is laying eggs and doesn't look ill in anyway.  I've not overfed them on greens and not changed their food - any ideas???

All this talk about poo..... I thought I'd passed that stage now my children are teenagers!

Also - My  Rhode Star doesn't seem to be laying yet - is this normal or itmay be because my partner has named her ERIC and she's a bit confused about her gender!!  lol

[Aunt Sally]

You Sussex Silver's poo does not sound quite normal   Try giving her some bio yoghurt every day for a while and see if it improves,  I'll come back to you if I think of anything else.

Welcome to the site by the way  

[richyrich7]

Hiya welcome to the site  

[GrannieAnnie]

Hi Kym, and welcome from an old Kentish Maid.  Whereabouts are you in North Kent?  I'm originally from near Dartford.  Not the posh part of Kent like Aunt Sally!!!!!! lol

[Aunt Sally]

Hi Kym, and welcome from an old Kentish Maid.  Whereabouts are you in North Kent?  I'm originally from near Dartford.  Not the posh part of Kent like Aunt Sally!!!!!! lol

 :shock: You can't have ever been to Maidstone grannie  

[Kym503]

Hello  I'm between Swanley and Dartford.

Bio yoghurt ... do I just place a bowl of it in the run?  Will they all want to eat it or will I have to encourage her in anyway.  Also - is it just the sort you'd buy in the supermarket?

I've had another thought -  they found a frog and killed it yesterday and then ate it between them.  As Pie is the 'chief chicken' I expect she ate most of it - would this have upset her stomach?  (When they ate a dead mouse they found last week it didn't upset anyone!!!!)

Kym

[Aunt Sally]

Bio yoghurt ... do I just place a bowl of it in the run?  Will they all want to eat it or will I have to encourage her in anyway.  Also - is it just the sort you'd buy in the supermarket?

Yes just plain bio yoghurt, you can mi it with some porridge oats if you like.  That's good for the bowels.

I've had another thought -  they found a frog and killed it yesterday and then ate it between them.  

That will do no harm at all - very tasty snack  

[muntjac]

but it will make em squit .. just agive them the yoghurt n have a poop scoop to clean it up   not the yoghurt lol

[Aunt Sally]

There are a couple of products you can buy which is basically the types of organism that you get in yoghurt - AVIPRO and Poultry Magic (not sure where I bought that but I can look it up if need be), you can add it to their water or sprinkle on the feed.  It encourages the correct gut flora and is of cause better than dairy product for them.  I think it would work out cheaper than yougurt in the long run !

[GrannieAnnie]

I went there once Aunty, and my Mum's old boss lived there, and he was posh!!!!!!!  Perhaps its come down in the world in the last 30 years??

Once you get out of Dartford its quite nice, unless its changed in the past 30 years too! lol  Now I'm only allowed 1 visit to Kent a year, I rarely get beyond Dartford!

I tell a lie, my friend Jacqui sometimes takes me to Pole Hill Garden Centre, I love it there at Christmas time!!!!!

[Kym503]

Pleased to be able to  report that the rear end seems back to normal now - many thanks for the advice.

Kym