How to Check for Healthy Chickens

Clare Taylor, our expert chicken keeping instructor, gives practical and detailed advice on how to health check chickens before you purchase. She explains how to pick up, hold and handle the hens and tells you what to look for.

[@PetalsonthePavingSlabs]

Some good tips there for first time chicken owners, great video.

[@CotswoldChickens]

Thank you!

[@catiegus]

Love your videos! So informative.. We are going to be first time Chicken owners and are trying to gain as much knowledge about these lovely girls as possible! We are going to the Breeder tomorrow and this information you provided will really help us with what to look for when we are picking out our girls :D We have taken great care in preparing their new home, buying the best Organic Non-Gmo feed and Treats etc.. and your video on Nutrition and Supplements was GREAT! Thank you for all the great information... Look forward to seeing more videos! Wish your store wasn't in the UK! :D God bless

[@CotswoldChickens]

Thank YOU Catie, glad that the videos have been of some use. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any queries

[@briankrishna1736]

Can you put dimensions earth in a water bottle and sprayed around and would it dry up in those areas and kill mites and flease

[@anyonesmirked8469]

Really helpful tips. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@AntPDC]

Wonderfully informative upload. Great presentation too, thank you!

[@Hijabigirl1]

Best video I’ve seen your awesome

[@lynleypower3433]

best advice I've managed to find so far. New to having my 3 hens. Bought as POL, 2 laying and one very slow. Will give them a good once over tomorrow. Thanks

[@masonthomas135]

My backyard laying hens have mites they itch and scratch i need help

[@CotswoldChickens]

Have a look at our other videos - there are some on lice and mites. Your chicken-savvy vet will be able to prescribe a spot-on and other products to tackle the problem before they get ill. Clare Taylor

[@evengerezghiher5523]

actually nice

[@cheryldahl9192]

I adopted some hens that don't look healthy, but not sure how to help them. I can't afford a vet or anything.

[@heimdall4148]

Do they still live?

[@cheryldahl9192]

@@heimdall4148 The old ones died, but the young one is doing great!

[@Sarah-lu4wh]

What...... A great video! Thank you!

[@jenniferfree8746]

Thank you for such an informative video

[@dennislanham1653]

Very informative. Thank you

[@jenocean824]

So much great information! Thank you!

[@CJ-pt4ku]

Great video, thank you.

[@tylerbradley2854]

Your really good with your hens

[@leftright5341]

Very helpful thank you

[@IrishHoopers]

Thanks very much ♡♡♡

[@Whitewing89]

I only have 3 hens so I should be able to check them all like this daily. as soon as o have something down to keep animals from digging into the run I'll be moving them out full time

[@obaiedUK]

love it

[@alijames2592]

This is a marvellous video - thank you so much. I feel much more confident ahead of my visit to buy our first birds in a few weeks!

[@isaacowusukusi7878]

where are you like city

[@CotswoldChickens]

+Isaac owusu Kusi We are based in the UK, near Oxford. Is there anything which you need help with?

[@isaacowusukusi7878]

Thanks,I was just wandering because i live in high Wycombe and am trying to get chickens but i dont know where i can get some like 5 weeks old or chicks!!!Any advice would be really helpful thanks.

[@angelaknowles8189]

my grandson brought 3 fertile eggs home, we put them in an incubator, when it was not far from hatchday conner gave me one to hold, it was so nice to see the little one moving,anyway we hatched all three, first was a sweet noisy yellow one ( we call her peggy ) after conners other nan, two brown fiesty chicks kenny and tommy, i love them they all know their names chase the cats, they are fun, they have a nice home,good grub, they have demolished our back garden but it all grows back, anyway thank you for your information it is great xx