Well there’s a thought, what could we do to him or her. Maybe a take on the ghoulish ‘Two pints and a packet of crisps’ horror special, headless corpses everywhere.
We’ve put a load of eggs into the incubator today as my brother has requested chicks. He shall have them. My sister’s chicks are growing on well and have been moved into a bigger chicken coop with a lamp as their heads were hitting the roof of the brooder. They are getting lots of feathers and the heat has been turned down a notch. The young cockbirds from our first hatch are growing up. They keep trying to snatch a bonk when the big cock bird is elsewhere. They are also trying to crow and come out with this strangulated version, sounds very painful.
We spent hours poo sucking the birth field. Getting the stockman to do it is very, very hard. He goes into his ‘I don’t understand’ mode, oh yes, you do, and then claims the machine isn’t working properly, it was. If he could grasp the idea that if you just do 15 minutes a day, the job is very easy, all would be well. It is just the same with clearing up hay round the hay mangers, easy if you do it often, a complete pain if you leave it a week
william –
Thanks, hope lots hatch.
Elaine –
Glad to hear my chicks are thriving.Please let there be more hens than cockbirds.
jo –
Certainly need to keep on top of the ‘poovering’ we have lost it with the girls field, but still manage the boys, and babes, extremely difficult with so much rain and wind.