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Hi does anyone have any spring feeder designs you can show me please. I plan on making spring feeders for my chickens and pheasants and obviously the plastic barrel with open screw top is the easiest way of making one but I can get hold of these 25ltr barrels a lot cheaper, I guess one way of...

Currently I have a 100litre water butt raised up with about a 3mm diameter pipe running from the water to 3 bell drinkers with a larger pipe connecting to them. I find that the pipe is too narrow and any debris blocks the pipes easily. Leaving no water in the drinkers. I plan on getting a...

Personally I wouldn’t as she may reject them potentially killing them

It’s a yeast infection basically

It appears to me she has sour crop, to treat it put your chicken in a warm & quiet area holding her upside down and gently massage her crop in the direction of the head. Putting apple cider vinegar with yogurt or olive oil in the water is a great way.

I’ve been told to purchase a uv light to clean green water in the pond. The pond is 5000litres and it would cost £260 for one of these uv light kits from oase. Is there another reliable brand/product that will do the job but cheaper? Or is £260 what I’m going to have to pay to keep the water...

Thanks for your replies

Recently installed a new pump for the pond, however before I had put it in place the pond was a greenish colour, as they pump filters through a tank and trickles back down a stream I was hoping it was clean the water. So I decided to stir the bottom up and happened to find this in my net. We...

Thanks very much!

Anyone know the breed?

I don’t know, asking for a friend

Depends really on how secure your coop is, if they are likely to get attacked by any sort of predator including rats then I suggest you either move the hen and chicks to somewhere safer or you raise them yourself. Also comes down to what breed of chicken she is. Some are good mothers some aren’t.

Well it’s obvious, it’s a trio I was looking for the breed

Can anyone help?