We put our dead mice in the septic tank Margaid- they do a great job of keeping it working properly. At the peak we had 13 traps going here catching house mice, but having caught around 300, in the last 3 weeks the remaining 6 traps have caught nothing, so hopefully we have wiped them out. At some s...

It's not just people they eat. I remember talking to a friend about his India adventure where he spent a year travelling around. Apparently in Goa they have public toilets known as 'the pig toilets' where they are fed human excrement via chutes from above. No more details were given, so what happens...

We had a pressure cooker 'explode' years ago and never used one again. The safety valve stuck and when it was tapped with a spoon the valve opened shooting the entire boiling contents (potatoes) over the kitchen ceiling. What would have happened if the valve wasn't freed I dread to think! The modern...

Could be weather or perhaps they sense the uncertainty surrounding Brexit? But seriously, unseasonably very hot followed by cold, wet and windy may have confused them?

We have a pair that peck each others beaks to clean the bits of feed off. They also preen each others necks to remove new feather sheaths. These are very old hens so perhaps its a behaviour that develops in time? All the cockerels have hens that preen them and it isn't necessarily the top hen.

Back in 1990 I started an Open University degree course with a T101 Technology Foundation. One of the units covered sustainability and stated that the planet was only viable with 3% of the then current population. The rate of population increase was explained very simply by the fact that, at that ti...

A chicken's brain is a very small target Tweetypie and when it came to say goodbye to our Basil we took him for his first and last visit to the vet, even though we have an air rifle and air pistols, as I couldn't bear to get it wrong. He was a huge chap (over 6Kg) so he had two injections, the first...

Trying to post a better photo but have to admit this is all pretty complicated, which is why I haven't posted any photos for years. LG 720x540.jpg It actually worked! Now you can see some of the chicken coops. The slope of the land is a bit less on the ground than the image appears, presumably somet...

I'd class Toulouse as a 'heavy' goose breed and so, according to Katie There's book on incubation, the exact time for incubation isn't precise. The incubation period is 31 -33 days and hatching is 34 -36 days. Incubation is 37.5C at50% humidity and hatching is 37C at 75%. You haven't said what machi...

Not sure what the problem is here Jeffro, but when hatching the temperature is lowered and the humidity raised. So where were they before and for how long?