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  1. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Given you've not written different I assume Leonard has settled in with your bunch of nutters and dusters rather well. I'm seriously pleased if it is the case. I'm faced with the possibility of introducing a new male to the field hens now Henry is dead. I've not had to do this in confined...
  2. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    You left out Tinkerbell.:p:lol:
  3. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Why not?
  4. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

  5. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Oh, I agree about the dogs. You may remember Ruffles go killed by two Huskies and they tried to kill a ewe. Further up the mountian the farmers were shooting any dog that wasn't on a lead on sight. It's not the cats and dogs, it's the people who keep them, or rather don't.
  6. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0m1g8p4yy0o
  7. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    I'm getting one egg a day currently. That's just about enough to cater for my recent baking interest.
  8. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    One should always questions ones sanity when keeping chickens.:jumpy
  9. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Well, honestly, I've never been so insulted in my life. :p Me catlike!:rant:lol:
  10. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Unfortunately Lozzy my dislike of cats hasn't meant I haven't met any and worse still, had to live with them at various points in my life. It sometimes seems they're like rats; you're never more than a metre from one.:p (I'll get thrown off this thread if I don't shut up :oops::D)
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

  12. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    This keeping chickens business, it's not as easy as some would have us believe. It takes time in my experience to get things right for them and us. Bear in mind there were five years of Catalonia for me before I started posting here and most of the horror stories and the deaths aren't recorded...
  13. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    More coops always helps. However, the amount of land the chickens can access needs to be considered. What I would suggest is you consider making/have made a maternity/isolation coop at this stage. It will give you much more felexibilty in how you deal with the broodies. They can be reasonably...
  14. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Sounds like you're getting tribes.:D Bantams and full size is an easy split and for those interested in creating a multi coop system with small free ranging tribes, this is the route to go. I've banged on about this very split often enough. I found that the full sized roosters would attempt to...
  15. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    I hope you have better luck than I'm having with Henry and Mow. It's turning into a full time job.
  16. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    He's a fine looking chap. His legs and feet need some attention much like Henry's.
  17. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    My preference is to let the senior hens sit and hatch and only on the eggs they laid if possible. Some hens are happy to take donations but ime the senior hens are less so and even roll the donated eggs out of their nests sometimes. I have had multiple broodies sit and hatch (you may remember...
  18. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Finding out who makes the best mums and more importantly what makes them best can be a traumatic learning experience for all. Yes it can be very disheartening when things don't go as we would wish. Our expectaions of hatch rates and mums abilities is very high I think.
  19. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    I can't stand the stuff. I'm not even sure it's that good for me.:sick Funny how all these different foodstuffs fall in and out of fashion.:confused:
  20. Shadrach

    Ribh's D'Coopage

    You're doing all right Ribh. Failure to hatch is something one gets used to. There are so many reasons why it happens, most of which one can't t much about. If you're going to range the birds from dawn to dusk then predation is something one must learn to deal with as well. Once you have a male...
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