Posts by Graham Lane

I've just been out a got a 10kg bag of conilatte primo faso.  They seem happy enough at the moment.  I'll be keeping a close eye on them over the next couple of days though.   Good advice on not putting them with the...

Excellent advice.  Thank you.  I think they are about three weeks old now.  They were suckling this morning but do eat a bit of apple peel and light greens now.  I think dampened first phase pellets would be the...

Over lunch-time today one of my mother rabbits just keeled over and died.   She has two off-spring which have just started coming out of the box two days ago.  The other half of the cage has the mother's fully-grown...

Where are you from?  Oh, I see, Florida, well I guess you'll only need a little bit of spit...

How do you clean your eggs?   I have a stainless steel scouring pad and give them a scrub under the tap in the utility room.  I then put them in a cardboard egg tray to dry and take the previous day's eggs out to put in...

Arrrgh!  I just realised I got those photos the wrong way round!  Sorry, it should be red to green.

I've tried to find advice on storing and rotating eggs here, but can't.  So, here is my method.  We have a separate fridge for drinks and eggs in our larder.  In fact it's a fridge-freezer along with two more freezers so...

There are simply three parts; a stainless steel dog or cat bowl, a plastic bottle with (or without cap, but better with), and a piece of plastic pipe, the sort usually used for toilet drains.   The pipe in this case has an...

I'm new here but have been keeping chickens, rabbits and ducks for about ten years.  I'd like to share some of my ideas and also gain some knowledge and ideas myself.   I'm English but live in Umbria, Italy.  We...