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

[CB and CG]

We don't have many other predators here. I always see hawks but they take one look at my lorps and they run lol. My Australorps will chase large birds but will let wild pigeons and bandicoots eat with them. It is like they know who is a potential threat and who is there purely for the food!

 

[appps]

Down here in the suburbs and the city (Vic) there are tonnes of foxes... 

X2. We lost our last chooks to foxes and we are literally a two minute drive to our town/city centre.

Foxes are moving into the suburbs because of the food rubbish people create.

 

[satay]

Foxes and neighbours dogs have been the main ones here. Did have a hawk try to take a bantam but it dropped it in the end.

 

[chickarooo]

Yay good hawk dropping your bantam

 

[Fancychooklady]

My daughter jumped on her horse and chased a hawk down. She threw a stick at it and it dropped my little bantam. Our equine vet was here at the time and she was impressed with my daughter 's " can do " attitude. She was only 14 at the time. My little bantam lost an eye but she is still with us 2 years later.

 

[chickarooo]

Wow

 

[satay]

My daughter jumped on her horse and chased a hawk down. She threw a stick at it and it dropped my little bantam. Our equine vet was here at the time and she was impressed with my daughter 's " can do " attitude. She was only 14 at the time. My little bantam lost an eye but she is still with us 2 years later.

Great work by your daughter. Thankfully mine was uninjured. The peewees attacked the hawk and it dropped the bantam.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Quote: Oh, bugger. I was hoping you'd make me one hahah.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Well Mr Goanna is back. We saw him yesterday.

 

[Redoliveberry]

Baby quail hatching is done I have 11 babies in the brooder, 9 healthy and strong, one small and weak, but I think it will be fine, and one cannot stand on his feet.
What can I do to help it?



I had 20 good eggs in the bator after candling. Today is day 20. I did a float test on the remaining eggs and then opened them, They all had dead chicks in them, some nearly fully developed, some small.

I had to assist the last two (on the photo) as they could not hatch out. One was in the shell the wrong way and the other just weak, proboably because it was tired from trying for so long.

I will be setting some of my quail's eggs tonight to test fertility, hope they hatch