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  1. Grum P Oldamn

    Does incubation temperature determine gender of chicks?

    BBC reported that a university had patented the process as it was so valuable to the chicken industry...when I get around to incubating I will try temp change at 3 to 5 days and see results. You never know until you try :)
  2. Grum P Oldamn

    Lack of eggs

    Hi both, firstly Lauren, yes, I had the same, the girls looked healthy but there were more feathers lying around - I put it down to an over zealous rooster :), it was only when I looked under their existing feathers that I saw the new ones coming through....Next gmyers, it only lasts a little...
  3. Grum P Oldamn

    Lack of eggs

    The egg production has resumed so it looks like it was simply a case of the girls going through their first moult......happy chappy :)
  4. Grum P Oldamn

    Lack of eggs

    I go them in May, they were probably around 6 - 8 weeks old, their combs hadn't formed but they were pretty well full grown......checking them yesterday I saw that the layers were definitely in moult, so this exlplains it :) looking forward to production restarting :) Also took photo's so...
  5. Grum P Oldamn

    Lack of eggs

    It has been suggested to me that they are in moult and therefore will stop laying but, I'm not really seeing signs of that..... will take a good look around the house and see if I can find any nests.
  6. Grum P Oldamn

    Lack of eggs

    Will get round to taking a few pics of the offenders.....
  7. Grum P Oldamn

    Lack of eggs

    yeah, I would have thought that too..... but I have been keeping them in until after lunch time, and until the lack of eggs they were coming back to lay.... was considering putting a pepper corn up their bums to see where they run (apparently it works)
  8. Grum P Oldamn

    Lack of eggs

    I have 5 chickens wandering freely around the farm...I bought pairs of brreds (what I liked the look of rather than specific breeds) (I did have six, but, well there is another thread discussing the issue of predators) My rooster (a fine looking chap) has matured from when he first arrived and...
  9. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    Things have changed, no further losses to date :) but I am sure that I am still being visited at night. The live trap is failing, in that whatever it is digs under the trap and pulls out the bait, so version 4 will be built over the next few days. I've added a security light that covers the...
  10. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    It's been a while since my last loss, my remaining guineas are now housed with the rabbits, covered by a double covering of wire netting and the chickens only free range when I am in the area, otherwise they are moved into the goat pen which has a similar double covering. Barney, my dog is...
  11. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    Hi Nicole I've built up 'secure' fencing around my goat pen that is stone built up to 4 ft high and then logs to about 8ft..... so now I have a secure run for them, I still let them out in the early evening for a quick hour to peck around then they go to bed, I've also laid out a live trap and...
  12. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    Nothing yet..... another chicken was snatched outside my window last night, only to come back a few hours later as I was securing all the animals away. There were a bunch of feathers at the front of the house and a bunch at the back where I have a lilac bush (well about 10 mtrs by 4 mtrs of...
  13. Grum P Oldamn

    Mature Age?

    I've posted this a bit late (by a few years by the look of it!) I hope your guineas are doing well :) I brought some guineas back to my smallholding about a month ago, after three days in the coop I released them into the great wide world and had no problems with them disappearing off, apart...
  14. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    The bear isn't a major problem out here surprisingly..... I have seen the signs in the woodland and the local warden has confirmed that there is one that wanders around, being close to Estonia and Russia does mean that from time to time bears do cross the border into the area....that's Shengen...
  15. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    Following 'expert' advice I have been sitting out from 2100 - 0100 and 0430 to 0730... "the times when foxes hunt" and certainly all my birds were taken in the evening/night time (although there is a debate about the strength of a fox and its ability to throw 1 mtr long planks that were screwed...
  16. Grum P Oldamn

    Home made live trap,,pics

    Love it.... I've had a predator take 10 ducklings and 4 goslings in one go, 2 full grown geese in one go and a chicken and two guineafowl..... needless to say I am incredibly p*ssed at this situation and have been sat up all night for the last ten days only to have the bloody thing take a guinea...
  17. Grum P Oldamn

    Does incubation temperature determine gender of chicks?

    A few years late, but a university has proven that a drop in temp for three days during incubation result in females forming instead of male (male become female in the egg) they are fertile females and give birth to only sterile males....good for the food industry, good for the countless number...
  18. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    Thanks, no neither do I.... already lost too many to this animal....but there are those out there that think otherwise...... Looking forward to returning to normal duties....haven't done night sight patrols since 1987! LOL
  19. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    I would love to bro.....but that would leave me out here, in the middle of nowhere, all alone..... and I don't have an envelope big enough :) he's my buddy, and has been after I found him dumped, 4 yrs ago in -16 C weather.....however, if I find a girl for him and they have pups I will gladly...
  20. Grum P Oldamn

    Disappearing birds.....

    My untrained rescue dog never ceases to amaze me, he has tracked down and pointed to escaped rabbit kits, shown me where the free ranging goats are, he is totally at ease with my entire range of livestock, and today he took me tracking through the long grass to where I have found a pile of goose...
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