What kind of eggs have you got in? and sorry about you losing your birds :( had a similar thing happen with mine, had so many birds of prey this year which has never really been a problem before.
I've been telling myself that this will be the last time I hatch for the year the last 2 hatches, but i'm weak and i set 30 eggs a few days ago due the 1st of August, 12 RIR, 6 light brahma, 6 mixed silkie and 6 silver partridge sablepoot! Given most the eggs to broodys due to awful luck with...
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actually i have a couple girls that are millefluer (feathers have darkened allot after first moult) and a couple citrus, and some that seem to be stuck somewhere inbetween :L
Took some pictures of my eldest 3 sablepoots, there really only a year and a half though
The cockerel, Pootle is a poreclin sablepoot, The 2 girls, Choo Choo and Stumble are noth millefluer
I thought this was a nice one of Pootle's tail, as a side note i got him for free when he was 3 months...
Thanks all yeah i like having lots of differant types, but im trying to focus on breeding my sablepoots, which would be easier if they hadn't stopped laying a year ago lol
and yeah the araucanas are a lot more commen over here, i know lots of places where they have eggs for sale, and lavender...
I've spent the whole week at school and its been dark when i left and dark when i got back, so finally today iv had a chance to see the chickens, so i decided to take pictures
Starting with the chickens i keep round the front of the house
C the lavender aracauna cockerel
One of the 3 girls...
Sadly yesterday after my mum had picked me up from the station she decided to fill the grain bins up. carries the 20 kilo bag over, sadly it seems little Sheep decided to crawl under it the second before she put it down, he was still warm when my mum got me Sheep was a porcelin Sablepoot and he...
Hi, we have a serious problem in that a really bad eye infection is spreading throughout all are chickens, The first to get sick was a sablepoot girl who's face had swollen so badly she couldn' open wither bad, owever we removed massive amounts of pus from the eye, gve her eyedrops and...
thanks, now its been in there for a while and some yolk has absorbed into the towel it apears it might be an organ of some point or maybye a very fleshy umbilical cord in there, i really don't kno, i supposeonly time will tell. sadly i can't keep the humidity down due to the towels