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...
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...
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...
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.
So I hatched out 17 Indian runners and now their are 4 weeks old. They are in a small outdoor enclosure about 9ft x 6ft that I made out of mesh within the main pen it’s self. I have put string lines on the top to prevent foxes and buzzards getting in. Every night I run them up the ramp into...
From the UK so we only have foxes not raccoons and all the other things from the states. The gap is about 1-2 inches in which the predator must of got through so either rats mink stoat weasels. Just curious to know if someone can give me a definite answer with this?
3 ducklings have been attacked. 1 missing and no trail and the other 2 have had the head and neck pulled off. I’m pretty certain one was attacked by rats. But this one was locked up in the house at night found dead in the morning. From the UK so raccoons are out the question. What is it killing...
In the hatcher I’d lay all the eggs out on their side. Temp and humidity is different in the hatching period. However if your hatching just one batch you can use the incubator as a hatcher changing the humidity and temp accordingly and turning the cradle off prior to hatching, this enables the...