Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[LuckysMum]

Thanks, sometimes I am so dim, I surprise myself LOL Of course you could put them in with the big girl eggs....

Beautiful silkies. I'd like silkies...

Our ISA's seem too do oops or fart eggs reasonably often. That's why I think about it. LOL

 

[satay]

How do they do quail eggs?  I don't think I'll bother trying to eat it.  I don't know how I could even crack it, there's not much of a "side" to crack into. 

I let the water come to the boil about 4 mins, take them off and under cold water seems to work for me.

 

[sjturner79]

I have checked on our councils website and I can't find how many we can have. I'm not going to ask then I don't have to worry about it. We have 10 ISA's, 9 young australorps, 5 young silkies. Our neighbours have chooks too. Not sure what will happen when they grow up and we find some roos in the mix. I've heard silkie roos are quiet. My granddaughters have told me we have to keep all of them. I want to hatch some more when it gets cooler. The ISA browns have always been very quiet except when they lay an egg. aussie and penguin blackie blackie brownie (not anymore more bluey) ducky midnight tiger my granddaughters named them, they are our babies. The german shepherd Bear like to keep an eye on things.

Nice silkies

 

[sjturner79]

Only 7 - I'm pretty sure I'd have been a nervous wreck being that far over the limit.  And also I might just have pushed my long suffering neighbours over the edge.

The local council says that 16 is the limit anywhere inside the council area. Our block is a large corner block and would run about 25 comfortably.
At the minute I have :
13 mature birds
12 dec hatch frizzles.
I thinks there's 16 from Jan hatch- I haven't been able to count them.
8 recently hatched chicks( was nine but one was dead in coop this morn)
And 7 developing eggs in incubator for Easter HAL.

 

[sjturner79]

The local council says that 16 is the limit anywhere inside the council area. Our block is a large corner block and would run about 25 comfortably.
At the minute I have :
13 mature birds
12 dec hatch frizzles.
I thinks there's 16 from Jan hatch- I haven't been able to count them.
8 recently hatched chicks( was nine but one was dead in coop this morn)
And 7 developing eggs in incubator for Easter HAL.

After the auction I will cull any mature Roos, and depending on egg production I might be giving some hens to my SIL

 

[sjturner79]

After the auction I will cull any mature Roos, and depending on egg production I might be giving some hens to my SIL

Oh and we were only going to have 6 originally.

 

[appps]

Poor Carl is back in isolation sigh. She was starting to just not look good, nothing specific just not well looking, and she seemed to be eating a lot of dirt still.

I seperated her back into the old bunny cage a couple days ago. First day she did one small solid poop that really just looked like dirt. Yesterday she did some watery stuff that looked really sandy and today again very watery but less sandy looking. She ate nothing much the first day, a bit yesterday and ate well today.

I'll keep her in there till she is pooping properly I think.

But why the dirt obsession? I know the crop is fine as she hasn't been allowed on grass yet, why is she still trying to move stuff by eating dirt?

I've been adding an electrolyte etc mix for birds to her water the last few days and she is still getting the probiotics added to her feed once a day.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Poor Carl is back in isolation sigh. She was starting to just not look good, nothing specific just not well looking, and she seemed to be eating a lot of dirt still.

I seperated her back into the old bunny cage a couple days ago. First day she did one small solid poop that really just looked like dirt. Yesterday she did some watery stuff that looked really sandy and today again very watery but less sandy looking. She ate nothing much the first day, a bit yesterday and ate well today.

I'll keep her in there till she is pooping properly I think.

But why the dirt obsession? I know the crop is fine as she hasn't been allowed on grass yet, why is she still trying to move stuff by eating dirt?

I've been adding an electrolyte etc mix for birds to her water the last few days and she is still getting the probiotics added to her feed once a day.

Oh that's not good. . She more than likely is suffering with a ' slow crop ' and that is likely to be a chronic condition for her now. The dirt eating is just her way of moving things along, a bit like us reaching for the laxatives . It might be therapeutic to sprinkle some magnesium sulphate ( Epsom salts ) over her feed .
Is she drinking lots of water ?

 

[appps]

Oh that's not good. . She more than likely is suffering with a ' slow crop ' and that is likely to be a chronic condition for her now. The dirt eating is just her way of moving things along, a bit like us reaching for the laxatives . It might be therapeutic to sprinkle some magnesium sulphate ( Epsom salts ) over her feed .
Is she drinking lots of water ?

She is going through about 500ml per day as that's how much I mixed up with the electrolyte solution and she drank most of it.

 

[satay]

Poor Carl is back in isolation sigh. She was starting to just not look good, nothing specific just not well looking, and she seemed to be eating a lot of dirt still.

I seperated her back into the old bunny cage a couple days ago. First day she did one small solid poop that really just looked like dirt. Yesterday she did some watery stuff that looked really sandy and today again very watery but less sandy looking. She ate nothing much the first day, a bit yesterday and ate well today.

I'll keep her in there till she is pooping properly I think.

But why the dirt obsession? I know the crop is fine as she hasn't been allowed on grass yet, why is she still trying to move stuff by eating dirt?

I've been adding an electrolyte etc mix for birds to her water the last few days and she is still getting the probiotics added to her feed once a day.

Oh no poor Carl. I hope she is better soon.