We try to remember to weigh our cria once a week to make sure the curve on the graph on the farm laptop is going up nicely. This week two of the cria are slowing up in their weight gain. One was very small when it was born but seems perfectly well and its mother has loads of milk. The other is four months old and is just over 21 kilos when it should be 24 but again seems fine. So watch and weight.
Pandora has put on two kilos this week and has now moved from the birth field back with a couple of her mates as I think she is out of danger. The lopsided cria looks slightly better holding its head straight for some of the time and I think it is less unsteady. It is still on the antibiotics so we’ll see what she is like on Monday and talk to the vet.
Our incubator has 19 eggs in it and is whirring away in the office, very exciting.
Alex A –
19. That’s a load of chickens!
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Elaine –
Put me down for a couple of nice hens when they are old enough to leave home, please.
Tom A –
Can we have one in our little London flat?!