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Good day

Im new to BYC and a bit of an introvert hence why I have not introduced myself yet.
My name is Jean, I live in Sunny South Africa and I am rather new to Urban farming :)
I am loving it, I have a veggie patch coming along, quail coop on one end and in the other far end
Ill have the chicken coop.

Ive read up a lot on the whole Coryza and quail killing it does, I will have a closed chicken flock which
I will take to the vet to get vaccinated. Im hoping this will keep my Quail safe.
*What will be the distance be that I need to keep these birds apart?
*Any other diseases or ailments that can cross over?

Then, my local law states that I can only keep 5 hens, as long as they free range. I was hoping to keep
Bantams like the Dutch Bantam, Pekin and maybe a Silkie if I can. Then I discovered the Aracauna, though
rare here, I can get my hands on a few. So I was thinking of keeping 3-4 Bantams and 1-2 Aracauna.
*Can I keep them all in the same coop?
*Can I create two Coops and keep the Bantam and Aracaunas apart?
*What will the min size be for a coop that will keep all these birds? 4 Bantams & 1 Aracauna or 3 Bantams and 2 Aracaunas.

Kind regards
Jean :)
 
Hi Jean, welcome to BYC
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It's great to see another fellow South African on the BYC posts
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Allears said:
Hi Jean, welcome to BYC
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It's great to see another fellow South African on the BYC posts
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Hi, Jean, Welcome, as a child, we had bantams and large fowl (both mixed breeds) that free ranged together and shared a large coop/barn. I knowother people who also keep both kinds together. So far ours are separate. We just added the bantams this spring and they seem so tiny. I think part of it depends on the personalities of the larger fowl and how docile they are.
Allears, what a gorgeous Siamese cat. We have a nine year old sealpoint, but she does not have the contrast between her colors the way yours does.
 
Thank you, she the hooligan among my children
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I adore cats, but Siamese are a breed all to themselves. This is Gracie aka Amazing Grace. You can see from her eyes that she is not quite "normal".



She's about 14 and has brain damage. My Siamese darling Jeanie went missing 4 years ago. I put ads in the paper, pictures on lamp posts and visited all the neighbours and veterinary practices to try find her. I found Gracie instead. She was found floating down a stream, beaten to within an inch of her life. Both her back legs had previously broken and the tendons can't be fixed (she walks like a ballerina I say, other say Charlie Chaplin
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Her head was completely twisted to a 90 degree angle to her body and she looked totally weird. But she was alive and where there's life, there is hope, so I kept going back to visit. I got her to eat, which the vets thought was a miracle all on its own and the rest as they say is history.

Her world for the first year was a sandbox and my cupboard. She is terrified of a broom and vaccuum cleaner, so I put her in her cupboard safe place when I clean. She is scared of loud noises but has no issue with thunder and lightning. She can't jump, but pulls herself up onto things with her front legs, she plays with string like any normal cat and eats like there's no tomorrow, if allowed. She is so loving and purrs like a little outboard motor. I often find her staring off into the distance and wonder what she is thinking about, but on the whole I think she is pain free and quite content. The most amazing thing is that all my other pets know that she is special and are so gentle and patient with her.

Toto, my gentle giant and of course

Kiko. The expression says it all!
 

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