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My Orpingtons developed really bad scaly leg while I was unwell. Think it has been going on for some months ! I have been treating with olive oil for 15 days now and seem to be getting on top of it. But I am a bit worried as some birds seem to have very few scales left their legs are smooth like...

Hi I keep my 4 angora goat on about 3rd of an acrea. They are smallish goats but they do stay in the barn a bit as angoras cant get wet. They eat about 1 bale of hay between them per week plus 1 sack goat mix lasts about a month (about 2 handfulls each per day) I also give them veg each day and...

Hi I also have a really bad problem with grass taking over rose bed vegtable garden and other flower beds. I have tried adding borders of stones,nothing stops it for long. I think it is one of those terrible jobs like ironing that never end. The worst is around the fruit bushes where it acts as...

Hi nice to know that some other people on the sight are interested in goats. We have 4 angora goats. They are very friendly to people but we have had a lot of problems with bullying and our smallest goat became really ill. I have learned 2 main things about goats they are fussy about what they...

Dear neon its not crazy to cry for something you have loved and lost. I am always distressed when one of my birds goes, but as Baygirl says they are fragile things. What you have to try to think is that you gave her the best life she could have by caring for her so well. If she died in your...

Thanks for your input sumi It does have some visible damage to its beak. but seems to be drinking ok and eating a bit. I think I might keep it under the heat lamp I don't want the others to peck its face. As it is the children's summer holidays they are enjoying caring for it, I think it might...

I cant believe I have two hens that are such bad mothers. I thought orpingtons were supposed to be good. Only my dear little grey hen seems to be any good, And all my little white pekins< who have had 5 clutches this year ( only 2 eggs per clutch but they are very small.) Perhaps grey hens...

Update good grey chicken and black chicken sat happy and hatched 10 chicks. Then nightmare black chicken began attacking chicks. This happened while I was at work but lucky for chicks my daughter (15) saw what was going on and shut black chicken out of the hen house. I have now removed good grey...

Those were her eggs grey like her. All the chickens in that pen are orpingtons. But one black two grey and one buff cock coo hen.cockerel is grey cock coo. but he is a split g so throws up buff off spring.

Thank you for your input. I think you are right George the cockerel has never been aggressive ( my children hand feed him grapes ) Last night I performed a sneak attack to save the last egg. I removed it and gave her one from the supermarket. Put her last egg under my best hen who is also...

My broody hen was sitting on three eggs 2 must have hatched in the night they had both been pecked and were dead The cockerel had been in the hen house on a previous hatch but he never touched the chicks This was not the same hen She is in a box he sometimes sleeps in Do you think he killed...

Hi Could you tell me; How old is Oscar ? He looks about the same as the younger mail I am feeding Ie still spotted tummy and no eyes on tail. The other one has blue front and a short tail, just a few eyes so I think hes older? Glade Oscar is going in his run when you want him to, it must be...

I think it was young veg they were eating. People have just started planting out broccoli and spinach seedlings here which my chickens love. Or as you say perhaps they where just trying to dust bath if the soil was newly dug. Trouble is they are not near the house most of the time but down by...

I seem to have inadvertently trained two peacocks to live on my property. They came from about a mile away the lady there penned them for eight weeks then let them go. I think her dogs scared them, they flew straight to our Farm. Her son saw them in our yard and asked me to feed them as he did...

Hi Coralee They look really sweet That's just how my girls huddle at night. I wonder if its because bantams are small they feel safer / warmer together ? Mother hen