Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[CALNICK]

just a query we have six lovely girls 17 weeks old and they eat very well but do not seem to drink a lot, even when we had the very warm weather.

 

just wondering if this is usual, having lost 2 angels in the same week when we first had them seems to make us worry!

 

all advice appreciated

 

calnick

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I may be wrong, but I think they start to eat and drink much more when they start laying.

[Angels4]

I may be wrong, but I think they start to eat and drink much more when they start laying.

 

I don't think you are wrong. I've only recieved one egg so far (yesterday) but I did notice the glug and grub were almost empty yesterday, and on previous days both had seemed to be hardly touched.

[iar fach goch]

sorry, can't help you, just to say that mine are the same. Have had hens for a few weeks and they are laying, they are eating loads, emptying the grub in a day or two, plus s"Ooops, word censored!"s, but they seem to be drinking very little. I change their water regularly, have tried it with/without apple cider vinegar but the glug never seems to empty much. However, when they free range in the afternoon's they do tend to drink rainwater and even the dirty water after I've cleaned the poop tray! I might as well not give them clean water in their glug! Has anyone else heard to put a clove of garlic in their water?

[Scramble]

Has anyone else heard to put a clove of garlic in their water?

 

I have also heard this, I think it stops their poo from smelling...?

Not sure, but I have read it somewhere!

 

Also, iar fach goch, as I am a fellow person from north wales ( ) although I don't speak fluent welsh I learn it in school and could I ask: Does your name mean : Small red chicken?

[iar fach goch]

Correct - or I prefer Little Red Hen. (same difference). Who'd have thought you'd be using your school Welsh on the forum!

 

For chicken I would normally use "cyw iar", which literally translates into "chick hen"!

[Scramble]

I know I'm so proud

[iar fach goch]

[purple hen]

I used to put a garlic clove in the water but the first to see it used to gobble it up and i was worried they might choke, so now i put the garlic powder in the food.

[Scramble]

Actually I'm not all I'm cracked up to be. I can just about manage 'Bore da' 'Pnawn da' and 'hwyl'

And the of course practically the only other bit of Welsh I know would be about chickens!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Well, you've both lost me .

 

Garlic powder's definitely the way to go - you can get a large tub from horsey supply shops!