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think i am in love have been checking out lavender pekin fertile eggs and found some frizzle breeds ohhhhhhhhhhhh they are so pretty am tempted :lol:but i really need to get my housing sorted out first and personally i would like kola to go broody as this will be her 3rd year raising chicks but...

peeps i am now worried and concerned in about 2 months i have had 4 birds go down with sour crop and only 1 pulled though , had one go down a about a week ago and although i did what i could today i had someone cull her she wasnt happy at all and today i drained her 3 times and only fluid came...

my large coop is 8ft by 4ft and sometimes my girls tend to really argue when it comes to bed time and entering the house and a certian few always get picked on and i was wandering wether its worth splitting my house into 4ft by 4ft houses with either wood down the centre or soild wire mesh so...

my little dutch millifluer bantam seemed every fine earlier then about an hour later i went back to check on the girls and her wings were nearly on the floor and she was very quiet and puffed up she was not to happy about being caught ethier but when she put herself to bed on the perch about 30...

i need to make a small temerary coop for my wee little millfluer dutch bantams and was wandering if you guys had any idea what i could use { dont have any sheets of wood } is there anything esle i could use that would be suitable ?? i can make a house { done before but no longer have pics } out...

but i dont want this post to go all wrong i just want to ask other poultry keepers about something i was told about this afternoon , is it illegal to chop the heads of chickens as a way of culling them ?? i was told that its illegal :-)05 :-)05 but i havent read anywhere that says it is.

my young girl that i brought up from 2 days old last year whos in with the big girls still isnt really being accepted its been a good few months now and i am still worried about her . each time she goes to bed { i have to lift her in } she gets picked on badly that she screams bascailly , but...

i went and got the antibiotics for my bantams today and the vet gave me ornicure which is one i have never heard of so all going well my girl should get better soon :D and no more bubbly eyes . it says on the sachet its for pigeons and caged birds so i am assuming its ok but i do trust my vet...

i am going to get some antibiotics for my little bantams as one still gets bubbly eyes every few days { although the sneezing as pretty much stopped and shes happy ,eating,and i think laying } or so but i only want the bantams done so i was going to see if my vets will just let me pick some up...

i cant stand this time of year when it starts to get milder , this morning as i went out to do the girls at 6 i walked into a massive cobweb including spider that had made a web right across the allotmant path i was sick :-)03 :-)03 :-)03 with fear as i am sure the spider touched me and i...

today i went into my house with a sealed tray of vaseline so i could wipe it uner the perches and as soon as i had the lid of the girls were into like hawks to a kill 3 of them got a right mouth full but ran of before i could get out the house and grab them if it doesnt hurt them then at least...

i read in p/p mag that you can use herbs to help with colds and a few other things as anyone used herbs and had any success ? at the mo i am trying oregano but there was another one i think it was herban or something ,it sounds horrid but i cant really afford a bill for antiboitics for a few...

omggggggg did you see them in the poultry mag someone at work brought it in for me to see the article and omggggggggggggg are they pretty pretty birds or what yes i would like some but my run isnt nice enough for something that posh :lol: i cant remember what they are called . :-)05 but they...

got a very funny feeling that one of my new little dutch milliefluer is a boy please say other wise .......

it has just started to snow here down by heathrow airport and yep theres already talk of cancelling flights only had a feww flakes so far though , but this is where i now worry about the animals out there that have no protection agaisnt the weather like the horses on my local common land which...

yesterday i got home about an hour before it got dark so i decided to start digging the run over as the membrane and wood bark wasnt really working , i pulled it up the other day and the ground was well disgusting underneath and it smelt gross so i decided to keep just soil and dig over every 2...

we have had quite a bit of rain today and there are puddles again where i havent been able to level the ground and cover it but i was standing there looking at them and wandering wether i put drainpipes in the ground in the middle of where the 3 puddles form an let the water drop down them of...

i went home at 10 am to check my poorly little bantie and as i was walking along the track i looked up and nearly died literally one of my dutch bantams had got out and was sitting on top of the netting abovve the extension and i was like omgggggggggggggggg how am i going to get her down , i did...

i have had to put one of my wee little partridge bantams into the rabbit hutch on her own as she has started sneezing and one of her eyes was bubbled up but i am worried that she might get cold with being on her own and having no one to snuggle up to will she be ok ? shes started moulting as well .

i poo pick the whole run every afternoon just before the girls go to bed and i use a wall paper scrapper or a trowel depending on how wet the ground is and i just scape or pick up into a large plastic dustpan but they dont last very long so i went to the garden centre this afternoon to get a...