just been reading march issue of the Home farmer mag, on page 6 there is a picture of a battery farm full of white chickens, which breed are they,

littlefeat

Thanks for letting us know about the fruit trees. We have quite a few apple trees - eating and cooking - in the orchard, but my Uncle planted them when he moved here in 1958 - I found the receipt the other day from the nursery he got them from!!! last year we got no apples at all, and I was thinkin...

my two boys were really good eaters, in the last year my six year old has gone off lots of things he used to eat, if i insist he eats things he has previously eaten with no fuss he vomits within minutes while he is still sitting at the table, so now i just let him eat what he wants from the dishes o...

chickenchaser wrote:Flippin' 'eck, Littlefeat, you've bought a whole orchard

lol yes thats the plan
we have 5 fruit trees in the garden, very old and neglected, i pruned them very hard and not sure if they will survive.
hopefully in a couple of years we will be picking some fruit.

littlefeat

hi all just to let you know that lidl have lots of fruit trees at £3.99 each, i got three different apples, two plum trees two pear trees and a fruiting cherry tree, all nice size trees with a decent trunk, not thin and whippy. potted them up and put them in the unheated utility room till i can pla...

hi probably a silly question , we have a tree in the garden that has really nasty spikes all over it, the neighbour said its a yellow plum tree, as they have picked some and made jam, i must admit i didnt know plum trees had spikes on them,i googled it but cant find anything about plum trees with sp...

an update unfortunately we had to have megan pts as she had not improved, she could not get her balance and could not move to go to the toilet, she was eating a little and drinking although she has been living in the dining room for weeks in the warm. the vet said probably mareks, so its a waiting g...

hi an update, megan has had a full course of antibiotics, she is still not right, i bring her in in the morning, and give her scrambled egg, cheese and sweetcorn etc, then let her with the others, she eats a bit then sits all day under the rabbits hutch, back to the vet me thinks. the other three ar...

thanks for all the kind words

megan is still quiet, she is still on the antibiotics, i have spoken to another vet, he said if i lose another he will do the PM, he is more experienced with chooks, hope it does not come to that.

will keep you informed
thanks all

littlefeat

Littlefeat, big hugs coming your way. You must be gutted!! Well, hard to say what could be the problem. The hen with the prolapse, well these things sadly happen (I myself lost two within a fortnight and cried buckets over them). I would be concerned about the hen with the enlarged liver/spleen. Ho...

Oh, Littlefeat. I'm so sorry. What a terrible thing to be happening. I wish I could help. The only thing I can think of is a disease passing through your flock or could they have been poisoned? This is what I fear most, you must feel so helpless. Lots of love to you all thanks chickenchaser, the ve...

kate egg wrote:Ah really sorry to read that, cannot advise only send hugs

thanks Kate egg,

its just heartbreaking, i have read many posts on different sites and lots of folks seem to loose the odd one with no obvious cause but to loose four close together is horrible,

littlefeat

i have lost four girls in the last 9 weeks :-( one of the girls was limping and a bit quiet, although eating and drinking, was like this for two days, then died over night, another girl two weeks later also went quiet again was eating and drinking but also died, neither was unwell just quiet, normal...

mealworm tubs in home bargains are £1.99 a bargain,
i shake the tubs much to my hubbys horror and the ones that dont rattle are over filled so you get loads, the girl love them, if they see me with the tub they jump on me to get them lol


littlefeat

ive gone mad this year also, ive grown from seed

roma, cherry, tumbler, caspian pink, green zebra, brandywine, big rainbow, sub arctic plenty, gardeners delight

and a couple of others i cant remember the names lol

littlefeat