Hello, been suffering with a bad cold (haven't had one for years) and this one seems really nasty anyway two things to report about the peachicks, well three I suppose.
First they are all growing nicely.
Second I had a chick who looked really poorly recently and I was so worried about it...
Three peachicks got themselves out of their shells very nicely. The 4th I had to help and then treat its splayed legs but they went back to normal in a couple of days. However this evening the poor little thing died. The other 3 look OK. With chicken eggs it is fairly well known that if they...
I admit I am being lazy and I expect this is already on this site somewhere but can't look through all the posts for it, but when I got my 3 lads the seller said worm them by putting the wormer in the water. She did not say how much! If anyone knows of an easy way to worm them I would really...
I know one is a Spalding (written on the egg) and that is the one I had to help out. It had dreadful splayed legs but used a narrow strip of Equiwrap to correct that and a couple of days of treatment
sorted that out
Today is the 27th day of an incubation which has been fraught with problems 8 peahen eggs in an incubator which didn't seem to be keeping the right temperature and humidity...well could have been anything. Add to that I found when I candled them that all but one had the air sac at the wrong...
I have been looking at this very useful site for some time and thought I would get registered. Doubt I will have anything useful to say but will have some questions. I'm sure you are busy people so skip all this and go to the last sentence.
I live on our farm in Wales (which is the lump on the...