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Hello from me too. I also have Minorcas. Excellent layers of large white eggs, easy to tame and very active. Eat everything and anything and consume grass at a rate only rivalled by locusts! Not noisy and flighty, but don't like being handled. My lot are currently demolishing windfall apples by...

It's that time of year again. Poults in the brooder, eating their heads off and growing ++, and pooping ++ as well! Yesterday I cleaned them out 4 times! In this weather the brooder "room" is really quite warm but I have to keep the door shut for security. I did crank the window open a little...

Hope not too many of you were washed away in yesterday's heavy rain? It really poured here and coupled with the high winds driving the rain into all the crevices the birds were none too happy. I even found a turkey stag sheltering in an old pig ark, and turkeys NEVER go inside, they sit out in...

:cry: Just tried an experimental log in and found a message that it has now closed. End of an era. But looking forward to lots of chat on this forum. :)

Have you dusted the birds themselves with DE? It is worth slathering them thoroughly from head to toe rubbing well into the skin then even if there are a few residual mites in the housing and they make it onto the bird they will be put off by the DE on the bird itself. If you don't mind your...

I have a 5 year old Embden gander who I noticed had a prolapse yesterday when I put him and his 3 wives to bed. He would not let me examine him - no surprise there! It has not retracted overnight and looks rather swollen and red now, with viscous fluid dripping off. I'm here on my own so am...

How annoying. Bet she was one of your best hens too because that is the Law of Sod. Foxes never seem to take the old lazy ones that you intended despatching anyway.

Hi, have between 60 - 70 birds, split into breeding and laying pens. My back lawn is currently covered in pekin chicks!

Thank you Marigold for steering me in the right direction ...... Hi, I'm a refugee from PP forum too. Live in North Norfolk not far from the sea. Keep lots of different poultry - chickens, turkeys, geese - and a few pigs. Looking forward to getting to know you all. :)