Livestock

I agree, chickens are not that difficult to look after - a secure, dry and draught free place to sleep, a secure run to roam and scratch and food and water.

i keep chooks - two little colombian and one very very old ex batmy neighbours love getting a few very very fresh eggsloop0y

Thank you for your kind words Im glad it made you rethink, i dont mean that to sound bad but it really can cost alot and isnt easy (and helps if you have friends with farms! )From personal experience i found owls one of the hardest BOP's to train aswell.As i said previously, if...

The first possibly a Leghorn - as could the second one. But the second could also be a Welsummer (the female next to it might confirm that).If the last one has five toes, it's a Dorking!

Aaaah lovely chickens, hubby's quite jealous they've got more hair than him,lol.

Never had a problem with cats, chickens usually win when it comes down to getting food off a cat. They have a great sense of what should be happening. YouTube - ‪2 chickens break up rabbit fight!‬‏

yeah ur prob right ziggy itl prob end up looking like the opencast around here ..i do have a large patch to fill at the bottom thou which was y i was thinking ducks and it has one of those helicopter trees there so its mostly dead ground x

I recently asked on my local Freecycle (South Norfolk Freegle) for some fertile chickens eggs and got quite a few replies.I have kept some email addys from some of them as they have rare breed chickens & they asked me to pass their email addys on to anyone who is interested in fertile eggs...

Something I've always been meaning to try is a plastic strip curtain in front of an open plan nest box, which is 'supposed' to reduce the hen's desire to head for the furthest, darkest, corner.

Hi ZiggyI've no doubt you're right, but I already have time/space restraints. Ah well, maybe some time in the futureCheers...Freddy.

As strange as it may seem, some feed their fish Brine shrimp enriched with Garlic Gamma Brimeshrimp + Garlic - Seahorse Aquariums Ltd

I'll keep meaning to check out the name of the farm (not in her family any more). Would have been in the 1970's. Also had friends who's relatives had farms there where I stayed (1980's) before meeting Mrs Scrungee, but I can't remember much about those days.We have a practice of...

Paint it yellow and call it big bird wont have a problem then Spruce

Hi Louise, yes I think that the chicken will definitely be too hot in the sun. The best protection you can give them from the heat is probably some low bushes (they would hide underneath) or trees. Failing that a wooden mat similar to what you use at the seaside to lie down on, butwith bigger...

Thanks. Couldn't be bothered to do a tiny on it!

I've never noticed one of our hens moult since we changed from purebreds to hybrid hens.Feathers can be stuck into potatoes and hung up (mock raptors) as bird scarers.

Hi Louise I have the same 'problem' 13 ex-bats need a lot of sawdust and produce a lot of poop. They have started roosting out of the coop at night (why??) so I have been collecting their poop and throwing it into a newly started composter. I do have a lot of woodshavings as well so I am...

They are safe in the coop It's on concrete but in the day I just let them out and leave them to it. I have covered almost all gaps with chicken wire but on 3 seperate occasions I have had to knock on next doors and a house behind mine to ask for chickens back I don't like the idea of caging...

Over the last year or so a few sites have been extolling the virtues of using hempcore for chicken runs and coops. Well it looks like they changed processors and a lot of fine fibre is getting into the pack. I have spent today washing my chickens feet and removing clumps of muck from their...

I bet they can find all the slug grubs for you aswell