Lewis Dr Chicken

Chicken obsessed vet 👨🏻‍⚕️ Promoting responsible chicken keeping through pet owner education, poultry courses, incubator hires and pet sitting!🐓🦃🦆🦅

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

I still have spaces on my Getting More from Keeping Chickens course at @denmarkfarm this month
Come along to learn about anatomy and physiology and how it relates to chickens health, parasites and preventing disease 🐓
https://t.co/zEb237pNRh

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

Update from Animal and Plant Health Agency this afternoon 🐔

Avian Influenza housing measures for poultry in England and Wales will be lifted from 9th April 2026. Mandatory biosecurity measures will remain in place

See https://t.co/Z6kSpJfP9u for info

[The Floof Lady @TheFloofLady]

We freerange our breeding group of Orpingtons in our orchard. We go out of our way to provide things to keep the chickens interested.

These ladders leaning against one of the cherry trees provides the perfect "Jungle Gym" for the chicks. It's also fun to watch them.

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

It’s a new chicken day 🐔
These are 3 Cream Legbar x Orpington’s so I’m looking forward to seeing how they grow - should be chonky blue egg layers

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

Alien egg alert! One of our girls laid this bumpy egg today, the tiny dots are calcium deposits which can happen as they start laying for the season
Have you had any alien eggs recently?

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

@JenniferLaChap6 omg! Is that an eglu hiding under that snow?

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

Spring has sprung 🥚🌻
Now the days are getting longer our girls have started laying today - have you had eggs yet?

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

Another 168 hens rehomed in Sutton Coldfield with @BHWTOfficial this afternoon 🐔

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

Don’t forget from 1st Oct all bird keepers in England/Wales must register their flock with APHA 🐔🐔
This has been in place if you have 50+ birds for years & is being done to help manage any diseases including bird flu & limit spread in case of outbreaks
https://t.co/ezJfV662Gw

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

We lost Audrey our 12 year old Cream Legbar a couple of years ago and I miss blue eggs. Think we need a blue egg layer and a really dark brown from a Marans
It’s been so long that I’ve bought pullets - where have you bought birds from recently?

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

I was today years old when I found out owls could swim 😳

[Gwydir Castle @JudyCorbett]

Oh no…Daphne’s spotted the cakes!

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

Productive day at @BHWTOfficial Sutton Coldfield building our new shed for rehoming days 🐔

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

Spring has sprung and the chickens have started laying this weekend 🥚🐣🥚
Happy Easter

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

We have a last minute rehoming date with 100 ex commercial hens from @BHWTOfficial looking for homes in Sutton Coldfield on Sunday 14th Jan 🐓
For info and to rehome hens see https://t.co/vN7565Gvyj

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

@oldmommatajuri I’ll message you 😊

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

@oldmommatajuri If you have no vet I would try and see you can use a needle to see if it is air

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

@oldmommatajuri If you touch it does it feel like fluid or air inside a balloon? Could be a ruptured air sac if it feels like air

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

I’ve not worked in a poultry shop for a few years so not sure what’s around now
Looking for a new drinker, large volume that you fill with a watering can from the top - not a twist off and flip upside down job - any recommendations please?

[Lewis Dr Chicken @DrChicken]

@HenCorner This is amazing Sara 😍

[Sara Ward @HenCorner]

How exciting to be featured in The Times Newspaper today!
See full details on our website: https://t.co/UIBDp9ZWf3