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my birds are so lucky i dont cull or else they would all be dead by now , i am still having major probs with them going to bed the fighting and attacking is going beyond a joke if one starts another one follows and so on , so i cant really seperate the main culprit as i am not quite sure who it...

does anyone here keep rabbits in with chickens i mean by letting them run together during the day but sleep in seprate houses of a night time ,i have now got 2 rescue bunnies { very cute and i havent kept raabbits since i was about 8 am 39 now lols } and they have a 10ft by 2 ft run but come...

some of you may remember me talking about a farmer friend of mine on here well sadly he passed away about 8 weeks ago and just before the funeral ii went to see his wife and i kinda joked with her that if she had stables at the farm i would move the horses in well she texted me last weekend...

this afternoon 2 of my 7 to 8 week old chicks were having a right punchup and i have had no choice but to seprate them due to drawing blood out of one of them around the eyes , so 2 of them are now in with the big birds but within a little rabbit run both i think are females but now i am not...

hey guys i am back havent been on in a while as things have been crazy here but i have a issue with my pekins and 2 odd sod big birds when it comes to bed time they all seem to get aggressive with each other and the noise can be utterly mind blowing why are they being like this ,i dont have...

is playsand to fine to use in the run , shavings is a lot of hassle to sweep up and clean out every few weeks and i always end up with 10 bags of the stuff when i only put 1 down to start of with , i was thinking of just getting a bag of paper chips as that really drys out poos...

after many weeks of having 2 birds that were eating the eggs i finally decided to get them culled after trying so many different things to stop them which nothing worked it was heart breaking to let them go over something so stupid but it had to be done but today there wasnt one broken...

mr doodles the aylesbury is so so so randy and its killing me as i really want all 4 boys together in the same pen but i cant do it as mr doodles rapes the hell out of one of the runner crossesand causes injuries to his neck etc do they ever stop being randy and if so when ????? its only him...

tonight it is so hot that i have decided to take the risk and leave the big girls to sleep were they want its just to hot for them to be cooped up and nearly all of them were perched with wings wide open and panting still, it hit 34c here today and its going to be one muggy night but i have left...

i called my feed guys this afternoon to put in a large order and after we got talking about the chicks etc as shes a big breeder and i have had birds of her in the past and shes invited me to display some of my birds at a pretty big show http://www.chertseyshow.co.uk/ omggggggggg its going to be...

i cant get my head around culling my girls cause they are egg eating so i am going to try one more thing then if this doesnt work i'll have to toughen up , my dad made these ages ago for the apples to sit in but they have never been used so i thought i would try them as homemade rollaway nesting...

ohh after i said i wasnt going to brood i decided to let a newbie pekin have a go and i gave her 6 eggs and tonight 1 hatched its so tiny but i am wandering if its worth moving them into the ducks pen inside a homemade broody pen so then at least the ducks wont jump up on top of the wire like...

i have had to seprate my male aylesbury from his 2 new firends as it turned out i brought 2 indian runner x khaki campbells 1 male / 1 female { supposed to be 2 males } ,an the aylesbury and runner had paired up leaving the aylesbury to attack the other male so now he needs friends or if...

went in the run this afternoon collecting eggs and checking on all the birds when i saw my little dutch millfluer laying out with wings out stretched i thought she was sunbathing but nope she had died he wasnt ill no nothing and was only coming up to 1 yr old she was eating and laying well i...

now its finally cooled down enough i have been having a mass spring clean and all the chocks are now back in the plastic coops { converted large garden storage units great as i can leave the roof open or shut depending on the weather and hose them out and they dry quicker } and i was going to...

yesterday i put grass seed down in the sectioned of part of the run and once that have taken shape the ducks will be moving in there ready for me to sort out the side they are in now but once the grass has grown do i need to wait to put them on it or not ? i didnt know what stuff to get so i jst...

guys can you cross your fingers for me and hope that the curtain trick in front of the nest boxes work i am now lucky if i get 1 egg a day out of about 8 layers and its driving me crazy beyond words that i have really thought about getting them all culled or at least the 2 main culprits but i...

i got mr doodle and his 2 new companions { runner x khaki cambells loving each other all ready } 2 new shell sand pits to use as mini ponds but he hasnt been in them yet and i know his new friends wont have as i have only just picked them up how long does it take ducks to get used to new things...

late yesterday i came up with the idea of putting holes in small plastic bottles and filling them with mixed corn to hang up to see if it might prevent my girls from eating the eggs as now i am so sure its the white leghorns doing it , so along with my nehprew i made those toys and hung one up...

today i made a new large water area for my duck mr doodle it was made from one of those mutil coloured sqaure sand pits so it was 5 ft by 5ft about about 12 inches deep . i went out and brought some strong pond liner and made this most wonderfull looking pond for him but nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh would...