Yes i know its my own fault as i went to a bike festerval. And yes i knew its still possable to contract covid after having the shots. But hey I'm superman! It cant catch me!. Well it can and has. Im pretty sure the jabs have helped as today i just feel used , abused and only a little poorly...
Is it just me or is my neighbours tree look like an angry chicken?
So it got me thinking others must see things that somehow remind us of chickens in a bizarre way? Well take a snap and post it here and let's see how bizarre it get?😆😛😜🤪
8 weeks ago i had my ee hatch a french copper. Only 1 chick but she seemed to get fed up pretty quick and since about week 4 the onlg real interaction has been snuggling on perch at night and competing for food. Yesterday was 8 weeks and today she laid an egg, qiut normal you may think? Hmmm...
Hi im mulling over adding these quirky little birds to my flock, but i need to know if i can or am willing to give them the environment they need? I have a pen i can use for them and food wise they will be spoilt! However we do have other chickens and like our chickens to free roam on our land...
My very poor attempt at a haiku regarding chickens. And no its not a rare breed lol. Hopefully you will be able to do better.
These rules apply to writing haiku:
There are no more than 17 syllables.Haiku is composed of only 3 lines.Typically, every first line of Haiku has 5 syllables, the...
I bought a young cock with 3 hens for him . 2 around an equal age and 1 a bit older. Unfortunatly after a day or 2 i noticed he had wry tail , well i didnt know what it was but my aunt told me when i as,ed her about it. Other than that he is very healthy! I dont know if he came with the issue as...
I have just made a big mistake of driving 100 miles buying some cemani eggs and didnt check the eggs before i left . I have got home and seen the eggs and dont beleive they are cemani eggs. There is no white- creme tint or blue tint. They are all some shade of brown, green and even pinkish. You...
I had a egg pip around 4pm bst. Since then i noticed another little pip close to the other about 11am but since then nothing we are now around 28 hours it has not made a peep that i can tell, i have had another chick hatch and another pip . But nothing really from the first to pip should i step...
Day 18 yesterday(well last night really) iv removed turner pumped up the humidity to 68 to 73 % and officially in lockdown, my first lockdown and its been scorching here (we for the uk any way 30oc) i didnt candle before lockdown (i did at day 11) as i didnt want any more dissapointment only 5...
Tomorrow im going to the great Yorkshire show . My nephew is there with some cows , he usually takes his own sheep and has won the championship with them but hes getting payed to show cows this year and with covid restrictions it would have been a real hastle to show both. I of course am going...
Ok so yesterday i inadvertently started a polarised debate that started off by my making bread from scratch and saying i had made an egg bap (bap?muffin uk? Bread roll?) And put a spot of ketchup on it😋 it was delicious! However some believed this to be sacrilege others that this may be ok or...
Ok so i have a r-com 2 with auto turning and the egg-turning tray i am curently at day 11. I put 6 ayam cemani eggs in aswell as 4 derbyshire red caps (i live in derbyshire and they are rarer than the cemanis) however only 3 red caps have taken and only 2 ayam, now im happy with the red caps but...
Sorry im technically challenged so just trying out posting vids of my little velociraptors . Sharing the love 🥰😍💖. Hopefully iv managed it but may have added twice or not at all lol🤯
Today i taught my ayams to eat watermelon. Yes a small thing i know but they trusted me enough to try it and although they were unsure at first the still tryed and then enjoyed it. The satisfaction & sense of achievement i got from this was immeasurable! Ridiculous really but true nevertheless...
I have had a problem rat ingress problem in my ayam coop. even with wire mesh laid inside and out they have gnawed through wood and pushed through where the mesh overlaps. Today i think i may have solved it! Aswell as the problem of what to do with all my aunts wine bottles lol. Yes i know its a...
This morning i noticed my 5-6 week old copper maran chick ( my first chick iv hatched since getting back into chickens) lay down on the floor in my coop and her head shaking- twitching a bit like she's trying to dislodge something but not, she we roosting last night on her purch under her...
Hi I'm looking for ways to enrich the lives of my chickens. Don't get me wrong they have a good life having both a large enclosure and free range of out smallholding (14 acres) including muck heaps,fields and wooded areas. I've ordered some catnip as there are supposed to be good or at,east OK...