Water for drinking

EVEN  through winter hens can easily get dehydrated.

It's important to remember to check their drinking bowls are clean and get topped up as needed.

This mourning the feather riot ran out of the hutch like Moss Trooper at the grand national, heading not for the food bowls but for the water dish.

Each day or so give your chooks water containers a good scrub out and add a crushed garlic clove as this will help the hens digesting and does not seem to add any taint to their eggs.