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My first egg, some 12 years ago!

I clean mine immediately under a cold tap and scrub with a stainless steel pan scourer. The I leave them to dry in a cardboard egg tray and then put them in a refridgerator. In the bottom of the fridge are two plastic boxes for vegetables. In the front of one is a piece of green coated pipe...

5 - one black, two brown and two white. Castello delle Forme, Umbria, Italy 5885 + 5 = 5890

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 other mother. She must be adjusted to feeding nine and these bigger ones must...

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 answer. I'm popping out to get some now.

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 offspring with nine one-week old babies of her own. Can I safely remove the...

Fantastic resource of ideas. Mine is made out of concrete blocks on a reinforced concrete base. I don't see any made like that. The big advantage is...no rot! I can wash out the house and run with a hose and it all runs away down a ditch. I can also shovel or rake the sh...manure out into an...

Does it also keep rats and mice out of the feed. Small birds, obviously.

Even after 10 years of keeping chickens I learned a lot and will be changing my methods! Thanks a lot!

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

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 the fridge.

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 plenty of space for chicken and rabbit meat too. In the bottom of the...

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 inside diameter of 10cm (4"). The hole in the neck of the bottle is...

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 bought an old villa about twelve years ago and have restored it to create a B&B with...