Oh and another one;
My cousin was looking after the chickens whilst we were away on our yacht for the weekend. Being a pretty capable 20 year old who has seen all the chooks, cats and such before, we assumed he would be alright.
He also works for our neighbour down the road, so when he came...
Awesome thread!
So I was selling free range eggs, and talking to some people about the benefits. They eventually plucked up the courage to ask me how the hens in the battery cages lay eggs with no rooster around...the wife was under the impression that they had one roo per cage...
Also me and...
Please help first time any of my girls have gotten injured, not sure what is wrong. Se was limping badly when I went out to feed her, and when I checked her leg she didnt seem bothered, despite me looking at the underside of her foot which usually ticks all of them off.
I was holding my chook...
Well a year ago I was handed the job of egg seller at a market. Being a teen, me and my little bros had to come up with the best buisness plan in THE WORLD! so we got down to buisness and started drafting
About a week later, Mum had left for a tiki tour of the US, so it was just me, my brothers...
I cant imagine silkie meat being different from any other chicken.
As for different meats being eaten, here in nz some extreme city peoples question me why I have chickens yet still eat chicken...I freaked them out by saying if cat was on the market, I would eat that too, despite having two of...
From my inexperienced NZ perspective, I'd go with the insulation; generally when people are trying to keep a (people) house warm they either go overboard with heaters, (which I would suspect are the equivalent of heat lamps?) or they go for insulation...we recently insulated the house which has...
Falconry! sounds cool!!!
Im pretty sure they wouldnt allow it here in nz---I spose they would target all the kereru, tuis and piwakawakas...
(but would be a great way to get rid of the rabbits in the paddock )
I have to agree with you on the sparrow front...we have so many of them, and they have...
I am so sorry that I dont know how to help, but hopefully someone more experienced will post here...but I would just check that she isnt bleeding, that the wound is clean and not infected, that she gets plenty of water, is warm, and get on the case of that hospital. Mabe they have a website with...
I have six chooks--- its always been that three of them love being handled, but the other three are horrified to be picked up. Otherwise, they're all really friendly
I clipped my chooks' wings...on both sides! I think theres an article in the learning centre about clipping their wings, but the thing I do is grip the corner of one of their wings, then chop off all the flight feathers about 5cms up. If they dont like having their wings handled, wrap them in a...
How...well, he is a silkie
It makes my hen's doings look completely normal; during the summer she would jump the two metre fence (with clipped wings) walk to the other side of the garden, past the swimming pool and over a pot then behind a wooden statue in the far corner of the garden to lay...