Recent content by Shadrach

The assumption that politicians are intelligent in any way or form is an error.:D

Get some Chlorhexedine spray and drench the wound then seal it with Stockholme hoof tar.

I completely agree.

I've slapped my fingers off the keyboard so far when reading this thread but I have to comment now and no doubt my comments will make me thoroughly unpopular.:p I did this semi feral stuff for ten years in Catalonia. I learn't what little I know from keepers in Catalonia who had semi feral...

Warm, dry with sunny spells. Guess what.:lol: Yep, Mow's gone broody. She's been watching Fret. She doesn't really know enough to sit and hatch yet. She was out most of the day and about an hour before roost time she headed for hte nest and sat all fluffed up and swearing at anyone who got...

I think she did it to make me do more exercise.:p

The yellow chick is big for it's hatch time so I think it may be Fret and Henry's. I think the other two may be from Mow's eggs.

Not really. Four new chicks of which three will will stay at the field. You've been reading that chicken math article where people cant count.:D Nope.:lol: If the person who took the chick had said no it would be dead now. If mums abandon chicks there is a problem. Sometimes the problem isn't...

Probably not. Remove the egg. Even if she's thinking of going broody there isn't any point in making her a nest and letting her sit if the eggs aren't fertille.

You would need to live a very long time if you were in the UK trying to get through that list.:lol:

Warm, dry with sunny spells. Fret had seven eggs and you may notice the sums dont add up. Fret hatched five out of the seven. Somehow an egg got added over the last two days.:confused: All the original eggs were marked and one in the nest box wasn't. It could be one of Mow's. Fret was in the...

The Muscovies got fed the same feed as the chickens but with the addition of a vitamin B complex. It's a problem that crops up over and over on most of the backyard type poultry sites. The assumption is often that the birds are contained and contained birds have different nutrient requirements...

It seems to me that a great many people do not have the ability to sit quietly and observe.

It sounds a lot but one is looking at an acre per tribe even if you supply additional feed.

The need to go broody point often gets overlooked.