I worm mine with Flubenvet pellets every six months just to be sure they don't have worms.

Waitrose mussels are good ATM also!

Poor you, a beak can hurt and bruise. Even my little Pekin cockerel, Pierre, only does a "for show" attempt peck. Possibly Violet's future with you may need careful thought, I have never had a girl peck me, or even try to. I would not like to run the gauntlet when collecting eggs, so watch out Viole...

She was lovely, no vet's bills for me, a lady to the end!. She really was a honey. Buff and black, lovely cream feathers on her slate grey legs, she was tiny, neat, crested and very pretty, healthy, lively and spirited. Always the first out of the bantam house, no messing around, first to find a spo...

Just been out to collect eggs and found one of my extremely elderly and original bantams, Cookie, dead. She must have been 6 or 7, and was a hybrid Silkie/bantam/buffSussex bantam and had been failing for days, I suspected it was old age. Just put her near food and water, and up in the nesting loft ...

Didn't realise ferrets were so large, thought they were really mini, am I thinking of weasels, are they really tiny?

She certainly is lovely though.

Marigold,
if we get round to this pub meeting, all I need to look for is a lady with weird feet, it it?

Marigold................. like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marigold, want to help me throw over the traces with a pub lunch in the middle distance?

Hope to be driving again very soon now, it has been eight weeks today of incapacity and hopping!

Thanks Marigold, yes, I'm hopping around a bit now, still pretty useless walking wise; it really was a dreadful break, both tib and fib, and very thin fine and elderly flesh on the shin, which was the longterm problem possibly leading to a skin graft instead a 6" - 8" vertical line of stitches like ...