Recent content by Shadrach

I don't believe one can control egg laying with diet and keep the hen healthy. What one can do if ones hens go broody is let them sit for three days so their egg laying cycle switches off. Of course one has to deal with making them unbroody and there is lots of advice on how to do this and lots...

One and a half hours this morning and three this afternoon. Warmish while the sun was out. The rescued chick isn't learning at the speed of the others. It's that noticable that if these were dawn to dusk rangers the chick would probably be dead by now. The chicks loses easy contact with mother...

I don't feed chickens commercial feed if I can avoid it because it's crap. Wait!:lol: I eat a lot of crap. I'm reasonably well informed on nutrition and reasonably intelligent and I still eat stuff science indicates is unlikely to do me good. I do try and eat an affordable balanced diet...

Per 100g Energy 1159kJ (277kcal) Fat 1.7g of which saturates 0.4g Carbohydrate 26.1g of which sugars 5.7g Fibre 33.1g Protein 22.8g Salt 0g The above is for organic dried split peas. They are a complete protein containing all nine essential amino acids, high in Lysine but...

An hour this morning and four hours this afternoon. It stayed dry and mainly cloudy at around 14C. There is something about this particular area that makes a good dustbath. Each year this area, once I've weeded gets dug out by the chickens for dust bathing. I makes small compost piles in the...

Where is she?

I missed the bus and then fell asleep on the train ending up at Temple Meads the main Bristol train station. I'm normally home by 10pm if I don't stop anywhere on route. No it isn't but I would expect say a couple of fox cubs fighting to make more randon damage. The damage is just to the...

It's either that or MJ has been lucky. I'm tempted to try a search for exotic species vets rather than avian vet and see what that digs up.

30th May. Mostly dry with some sunshine. I didn't get home until 11pm. Someone did this to my onions.:mad:

I agree. But, we should be able to cater for that with home made feeds.

Well, there's your proof combined with the feeds they produce. Doesn't get much simpler than commercial feed so I guess they don't really understand nutrition either.:p Steady!:eek::lol: Erm, :p Yeah well. You can't be a farmer unless you've got a farm goes down like a lead balloon on this...

That's Major in the picture. He was the first of the Catalonian males I became friendly with. Major and the farm dog Blacky were the only brains on the property.:lol:

I looked at Fret's most recent chicks and saw three boys and one girl for a moment.:eek::lol: With a bit of an expansion and of course two or more going broody, statistics say I should have enough males to eat chicken a couple of times a month; small portions naturally.:D

Headbanger MJ!:love