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I meant I add corn to there main feed in winter!! Not on its own! I breed and exhibit long tailed fowl (Phoenix & Yokohama) and the pellets don't have enough protein for their feathers. I have found a japan diet recipe for Onagadori that I am going to try.

I've bought some new chooks and they only eat grain mash, not pellets. I will grind the grains and make a wet mash, I will also let them free range as much as I can, (we have a very bad fox and hawk problem) I only feed Corn in cool weather, and they don't like it as much as wheat or oats so...

Is it possible to buy grain in CARDBOARD or PAPER bags? I have made a feed plan for my flock but I'm having trouble with the grains. I need Whole Wheat, Whole oats, and cracked/whole corn. My local-ish produce store sells all the grains, Hard Wheat 25kg $.22.50 whole oat 25kg $.23.50 cracked...

I will have to find the box, it was bought at a garage sale 4 years ago. It is a hexagon shape. I have checked the temperature and it was up to 39C, I have turned it down now and put more water in the base. I have lost 4 phoenix chicks and the rest of the phoenix eggs look like they have stopped...

Hello! Its been a while since I have posted. I woke up this morning with 3 chicks hatched in the incubator. 1 normal, 1 a little weak (Better now) and one dead. When I left for school there were 2 others that had pecked holes, and when I got back home they were dead in their shell. They are all...

Hello! I haven't been on here for a while. Update on Phoenix: I have found 2 pairs! a Black/Red pair and a Blue/Red pair. I have already hatched 2 chicks from them (both boys). It was an adventure to get these Four. On June 25 I took one of my Hamburg pullets to the Essedon Poultry Show in...

It has been pouring rain nonstop for the past few weeks and I couldn't get to my grandparents farm (where I keep my chocks) to see them. It was a bright sunny day yesterday and I managed to get down there. I had a look at all my chocks to see how they went in the rain and I noticed one of my...

Today was Nowra Poultry club sale day. I wasn't going to get anything but I saw this cuty. She is a ringneck pheasant, but she looks alittle lighter than the photos of pheasant hens I see on the Internet. She is 3 months old. Should I cut her wings so she doesn't break her neck trying to fly...

I just wrote 3 full pages on what a Hamburg looks like for my TAFE assessment..... my assessment is about nutrition for poultry... I have to take care of a pet for 2 weeks so I chose my Hamburg cockerel.

I came home from school today and found Choko couldn't move her right leg. I don't know if it is from the paralysis tick or if she DOES have mareks but i will be taking my dog to the vet in half an hour and will ask them about what i should do to her. She looked like she was getting better...

How do you know if she is shifting her crop?? I haven't had a problem like that before so i don't know how to check for it. Yes she is drinking some water but only when you put her beak into the water.

Thanks for the help! My welsummer hen is doing a little better today. She is opening her right eye now when she is walking, but her puple is a greyish colour. She keeps trying to climb up onto my lap. Her poop is clear and watery. I've bought a feed replacement called 'Avi-vital', its a liquid...

Yesterday morning 1 of my welsummer hens was looking a little down, she had been a little wobbly the day before but i just thought it was from the heat, so i had a look at her and found a small paralysis tick about 4mm big. I put her in a separate cage with food and water but then found she...

I have a Light Sussex hen and all her white feathers have been stained brown. Nowra show is in a week and luckily she isn't one I'm taking but she will be going to a show in July. Does anyone know what I can use? I saw someone using a purple shampoo on their white leghorns and after they looked...

After my Welsummer rooster killed my Hamburg rooster I have been looking for a new rooster, but I couldn't find any. I remembered that you can still hatch eggs 2 weeks without a rooster so I put some of the hens eggs under a broody chock and they all successfully hatched!! 5 little hamburgs...

Finally convinced my Mum to build a chook coop in the backyard. All my chooks are a my Grandparents (which is a 40 min drive away ). Bought an old aviary that I've fixed up, now building the run. Anyone going to the Nowra show next February? I'm putting in 6 Light Sussex pullets, maybe 2...

My Welsummer rooster attacked my light Sussex rooster and now he has just killed my Hamburg rooster! We will be having a lovely welsummer sized Christmas lunch. Light Sussex after attack A couple weeks after

I just counted all my chocks.....all 51 of them! 11 Lil' pullets i hatched in the incubator. They are so big now Can't wait for a show! Also I have found some Phoenix! But all my pens are full (the struggle...) I am buying an old aviary to fix up on the weekend for when I get them...

I've got some cockerels I need gone! From my show birds. All from the same father who I bought off of John Graveur. Mothers, older brothers and sisters have been in local shows and placed mostly 1st and 2nd. Hatched on the 23 September. I would like for them to go to another breeder to possibly...

1st chick hatched!! Little light Sussex! All the other eggs are peeping too!! ALSO! is it possible to post videos on here? I've got a video of her coming out of the egg