Now that’s what you call fluffy butts! I’m sorry I never got a tag. I just stumbled across this thread now. Gorgeous pics and paintings and gardens!! Thanks for the invite.
The nails are fairly easy to do, just kinda pretend you are cutting your own!
When your nail gets long, you only clip off the white part of your nail, getting too close to the pink fleshy bits gets painful and cut it too short it can bleed.
I always hold my chickens still between my legs when I sit down. Look for the quick running through the nail and never cut right up to it. Clip it about halfway in between the end of the nail and the quick then file it down a bit if you want to take it closer to the quick without risking it bleeding.
You can always use a torch to see where the quick is in the nail.
If you do catch it, don’t worry just pop on something to stop the bleeding
Thank you!
Your place is absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!Hello and welcome to my chat thread
I’m making another one of these because the last one Went a bit silent and I was starting to talk to myself... Am I really that boring??
Allow me to introduce myself.
I live in Ireland.
I have 30 chickens, 27 Brahmas, blue buff columbian, golden partridge, blue partridge and lemon Pyle are their colours, I could go through them all individually but I wouldn’t want to bore you..,1 RIR, 1 buff Orpington and 1 buff Orpington mix.
only had around 10 chickens at the beginning of last year but I became a bit of a Hatchaholic.. it was around 50 at one stage...
The plan was to breed them but they ended up getting a respiratory illness so now I’ve decided to keep them as a closed flock. Which is kinda what I was going to do anyways because no one was buying the roosters and I just had so many.
15 ducks, the colours are magpie, Rouen, khaki and a few mixed. 10 Guineas, 2 cocker dogs, 2 rabbits 2 cats View attachment 2041209
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some of my favourite hobbies other then caring for animals are garden design, interior design, painting and sculpting...
My cottage garden.
the garden consists of plants that attract butterflies and bees such as butterfly bush/ buddleia , sedum, delphinium, Ligularia dentata, red and yellow broom, sunflowers, petunias, bleeding hearts, montbretia and a few others
that I forget the names of..
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there are also around 30 roses in there and there’s a few trees such as blue spruce, blue cedar, holly and junipers.
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this next one is the patio.
it consists of different types of exotic plants like windmill palm, canary island date palm, musa basjoo the hardy banana... yes I grow bananas and palm trees here in Ireland.. bamboo, different types of hosta’s, Japanese maples, phormiums, cordylines, musella lasiocarpa, calla lily, ligularia, gunnera, fatsia japonica,Miscanthus sinensis Zebrinus, passion vine, silver spear, canna lily and different types of coleus
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More photos of the cottage garden
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I like to grow sunflowers every year because they are beautiful plants, they’re great for wildlife and they put a smile on everyone’s face.
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these are some of my oil paintings..
I just recently started using oil paints..
cow
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Our golden partridge Brahma rooster that goes by the name Prince
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two rabbits enjoying their breakfast
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Maltese dog
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so... I’ve introduced myself.
now it’s your turn
Hopefully she sits okay, please keep us updated!Thankyou I hope so too she’s a good sitter
I’ll candle on Thursday night before I go away for the weekend but I’m not very hopeful they are fertile but fingers crossed
Both gorgeous! ❤One of our new-ish no name chickens
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Also, I’ve put eggs under Fizz on Sunday, today and I will tomorrow as well. She currently got 7 under her so there should be 9-10 under her tomorrow.
Please at least one be fertile or I’ll cry
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