Recent content by Brewster

@shahab if it’s an allergy causing it then ribwort plantain might help, it’s a pretty strong antihistamine. You could feed the leaves and seeds to him or make a tea with the leaves and put it in his water. It’s totally harmless stuff, you can eat it as a salad crop, tastes a bit like broad...

I just cleaned them out and tried a sprinkle of dried oregano on their sand instead of the de to see if it’d be a good alternative, it smells pretty good even if it doesn’t deter the mites. They’re eating it 🙄

Its was one of the reasons I got quail, there’s enough herbicide in horse manure to wipe out an allotment! Didn’t want to start spending a fortune on plant food.

Ha ha, yeah probably, I was just thinking best not spray it on them because they don’t like being wet. I don’t think de works when it’s wet, not for me anyway, even after it’s dried again it sort of forms a cake and they just walk all over it. I always put a sprinkle on my quails sand after I...

@Touchstone I think lice, I use tobacco juice to get rid of red, broad, and two spotted mites from my other plants, it’s the most effective thing I’ve found. I just looked it up and it appears it’s also effective on lice.. ‘an insecticide that in- teracts with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors...

I think it’s a kind of magic all that ends up being one of these.

I get almost as excited to see these as their little blue eggs.. If they run backwards and make watery deposits that don’t smell good they probably need more kefir, they’re quite susceptible to coccidia until they learn to use the nipple drinkers. Their leavings should be firm and without...

Two weeks two days old today

@Icemaiden Ooh, I’m a bit worried that might be a potentially incriminating question so I shall word this carefully.. From bumble bee sized fluff ball until they learn to sing I give them.. 25% teff 25% mealworms * 13% hulled cannabis seeds 10% hulled sunflower seeds 5% moringa 5% sea...

Ha ha :) isn’t the internet a strange place, you have to be really careful what you ask for. I was quite surprised it realised what I was on about recently when I was searching for vertical chick nipples.

It’s just a thought but I found it quite difficult to join this forum, has anyone else signed up recently? Could be theres not many people about because of site issues with the joining process? I had to be manually allowed in by a mod (thanks Joshua). More likely it was just me, I’m not great...

Thanks @Icemaiden I like it here already. It’s strange but most people don’t seem to appreciate me constantly talking about my birds and what they’re eating all day, can’t understand why? It’ll be good to have somewhere to express how pleased I am at the quality of whatever they happened to...

Thanks I found the location bit. If they survive the experience they may realise the terrible mistake they’ve made and come back, I don’t understand the popularity of Facebook either.

Hi thanks Chris :) Yes, quail. I tried keeping chickens but when they arrived from the battery farm in a box I was shocked to realise that they were the size of a small dog! The cat was frightened to go in the garden. I enjoyed keeping bantams for a while with their fluffy little feet but they...

I thought this little hatching video might be appropriate for my first post.. ah, it appears on the screen but won’t play. Oh well, hello everyone 🐣