I did worm them and have done a few times since...tie it in with horse worming etc.they all had some berocca when I had the first sick girl and ive put calcium powder in their water a cple of times...
I cant start a new thread on my phone. But need help....this is getting upsetting...ive just jellied all the girls and put the splint and bandaged up the broken leg and now ive got a girl who is sitting down using her wings to balance her andstruggling to walk...we had this with another girl...
Awesome thread, thanks all for the tips.
I noticed one of my girls limping the other day and that her feet looked really knarly....and to make it worse i think shes broken her leg too (over enthusiastic rooster while shes been limping i reckon).
Looking at pictures she has scaly mites :(...
Got 3 littlies last week, 2 duroc boys @ 7wks and a large white girl @ 8/9wks.
Plan is to raise the boys for Christmas and to keep Charlotte the girl and hopefully breed her next year....will see how it goes...
One step closer...we got 3 piglets last week, 2 duroc boys @ 7weeks (Chuck & Norris) and a large white girl @ 8 weeks (Charlotte).
Weve built a 'baby' enclosure to start with which is going to be my vege garden area when they move into the planned orchard area.
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Still after some tips please......
Lil girlie is still with us, been in and out of the house, had 2.5 beroccas and tlc.....she is eating although her breastbone is sticking out.
She was struggling to get on her perch in the coop so popped her on to it for a cple of nights, we had left her cage...
Hi, I've read through lots of the posts and am pretty sure one of my girls has egg peritonitis :(
I first noticed runny poo's last week but i'd just changed their food so put it down to that so missed the 'early' signs, then 3 days ago she looked rather plump...Sunday night I did the warm bath...
No seriously all the snakes here in south Australia are dangerous. ...brown snakes and red bellied blacks where I live and the brownies are known to chase people.....eewwww
This is the one thing thats freaking me.....all our snakes are deadly...horrid things.
The 'palace' area and coop are being built to be completely pest (fox/snake/raptor) proof but you cant guarantee it and i really dont want to bump into a snake.
So happy i found this site.
We've just gone 'energy self sufficient' on solar, only have rain water so have lots of water tanks and plan on buying more.
Got our first chooks, sooner than expected so had to knock up a quick area for them whilst we work on the palace area that is 200ms plus their...
Hello, just joined and read through alot of the thread but boy no way i can read it all....
I'm down south in SA, just got my acreage and some rescue chooks....planning on much much more :)
Top pic is Mr Love with my nephew, bottom pic is of the girlies :)
Thank you for the welcome, i've been reading lots as a guest and since i joined, so much info. Thank you.
Hi there, just wanted to say Hi, i'm in South Australia.
We recently bought 28 acres and were building our chook area when a friend asked us to take on her 7 girlies as she had rescued them from the RSPCA, so quickly knocked up a smaller predator safe area and took on our 7 girlies who i reckon...