JJ was a good gosling and decided to help Mum cleaning out the brooder boxes!!!
In here Mum?
Ok here we go.........
Scrubby scrubby....
Splashy splashy..........
Thanks for your help Dizzy but I've finished now!!!
Hi all, we had a great weekend at the Fed despite the weather which sadly affected the number of attendees so quite a few empty pens. But here are our results
1st Silver Appenzeller Male
3rd AOC Appenzeller Male
3rd Silver Appenzeller Female
1st Long Crower, Best Long Crower, Best AOV Rare Breed...
Ok so, bit of a language difference, in the UK we call girls up to a year old pullets, then hens after a year and boys are cockerels up to a year then cocks, but you call the boys roosters so what do you call a young rooster, the equivalent to our cockerel, or is it still just a rooster???
This is Chubby.......
Take a good look.......................cute isn't she?????
She put me in hospital yesterday!!!!
I was feeding the geese and ducks yesterday morning before work and she came flying at me and grabbed me by the beak in the forearm then swung her wings forward at me and...
Thought you might like to see our farmyard girlie, Chubby, she came from a batch of Chinese Grey eggs Yeah right!!!
With her boyfriend Jack!
Sharing breakfast!
Ducks turn for brekkie!
Then bathtime!!!
Awwwwwwwwwww my Chinese Grey Gander, Jack, who is a house goose has just come up to me whilst I'm looking at the forum and wanted to come up on my lap.
Imagine a fully grown Chinese gander sat on your lap while you're trying to use the computer!!!
He had a look at what I was doing, decided that...
Does anyone know if geese have scent glands under their chins like rabbits do, our 4 month old chinese grey, Jack, seems to be rubbing hs head along the grass in the same manner that rabbits do when they're scenting an area???
We have a 12 week old Chinese grey which we have hand reared from 2 weeks old, he lives in the house but also has free access to our large garden and a pool of his own, he is very pampered, thinks he's human, he even comes to the pub with us but my other half is worried that when he is able to...
Hi guys, these chicks are from our 1st attempt at incubating we set 18 eggs, 2 broke, 6 didn't hatch but we did end up with these 10 little belters!!! Hope you like the piccies!!!
Ever since we had Jack, our Chinese gosling who is now 4 weeks old, (we had him at 2) he has been sneezing quite regularly, today his breathing seems a bit noisy should I be worried?
He's fit and healthy, eating, drinking, interacting, running about like a nutter:P.
It seems to be when he's...
She's sitting in the coop in one of the nesting boxes at the mo , I can move her to a broody coop, that'll give city boy something to do when he gets home!!!
Question is, I've got some eggs in the incy that went in on the 11/07/09 could I put these under her or is it not worth the risk and...
Hi from Shropshire, UK and the Fitz Chicks,
4 ex bats Baldilocks and the 3 Bares, Mummy, Daddy and Baby
5 pre bat rescues, Shadow, Chirpy, Steve McQueen, Sophie and Sylvia,
4 ex free range farm, Noisy, Tyson, Myfanwy, Floppy,
4 Cochins, Grandad, Emily, Tiny and Daz,
2 Appenzellers, Stan and...