Hi all and a happy new year.
Here in West Devon we are now entering our ninth week of heavy rain..the little paddock where I keep the poultry was I thought perfectly chosen..... and well drained...unfortunately it is just a three inch deep mudbath.. the intensity of the rain has made it so.
My Buff Orpingtons are fine ..along with the little brown hen I found at the top of my woodland Well Merlin the Collie found her cold and shivering under some gorse...not mine...dont know how she got there..but now has a home for life...Anyway last summer a mate gave me three peacock eggs which hatched out under a broody buff..two males and one female ..I think!!
On Christmas eve...went down to shut them all up and found the two male peacocks dead in their run...no injury ..no sign of intruders..the female is fine and left with sugg mum...they were only pheasant size and were not fighting.. any comments would really be appreciated..
ps thanks for all advice on my black rocks...even in this atrocious weather they have started laying and my neighbour has given me a Rhode Island Cockerel
Best wishes all for 2012
Timmy
Here in West Devon we are now entering our ninth week of heavy rain..the little paddock where I keep the poultry was I thought perfectly chosen..... and well drained...unfortunately it is just a three inch deep mudbath.. the intensity of the rain has made it so.
My Buff Orpingtons are fine ..along with the little brown hen I found at the top of my woodland Well Merlin the Collie found her cold and shivering under some gorse...not mine...dont know how she got there..but now has a home for life...Anyway last summer a mate gave me three peacock eggs which hatched out under a broody buff..two males and one female ..I think!!
On Christmas eve...went down to shut them all up and found the two male peacocks dead in their run...no injury ..no sign of intruders..the female is fine and left with sugg mum...they were only pheasant size and were not fighting.. any comments would really be appreciated..
ps thanks for all advice on my black rocks...even in this atrocious weather they have started laying and my neighbour has given me a Rhode Island Cockerel
Best wishes all for 2012
Timmy