What has made you Angry Today???????

[Cuppa]

Small heat wave over here. Lost 3 chickens. They weren't the problem

Dealing with the wife that gets attached to every bloody living thing is the issue.

Sounds familiar. If it lives it gets a name! We had a cock pheasant turn up in our garden a while back, only hung around for a few days, but was christened ‘Phillip’ on day 1. I still don’t think I’ve been truly forgiven for taking Lucy the pig to the abattoir all those years ago, & putting Shaun the lamb on the spit didn’t go down too well either (even though she ate both).

[93patrol]

Yeah these girls were called chocolate, licorice and moe. Cupcake is still alive but only just.

Our little girl could pick them up and pay them as they were more like pets than our dog that runs the first sign of an open door.

I am going to miss the double yolkers every couple of days.

[threedogs]

you need to talk Janderson about crazy farm animals he has a
sheep that thinks it a guard dog or such very finicky animal, thats for sure
@ Cuppa what happened to "GLORIA"

Double yolker there's a term you don't hear every day

[macca]

I have double yolks most mornings, they just come in their own shell.

My theory is a chook has so many eggs, get a double yolker you get 1 less.

In 3.5 years of having chooks normally 4 or 5 at any one time we have only ever got one double, thought we would get a few more than that!

5 chooks, 4 eggs today... This has been going on for a while, we have a slacker.

Oh yeah they all have names.

[93patrol]

It got to 40+ outside yesterday and we thought they would be fine. 2 black and a brown died, our white survived. Just.


Oh well, my daughter (3) took it better than my wife did which is hilarious. Haha.

[growler2058]

Double yolker there's a term you don't hear every day

I bought a doz eggs from the shops the other week ALL DOUBLE YOKERS! Happy thread I got 2doz for the price of 1

[AB]

Spending time helping a new member to manually set up her registration who ended up spamming the forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[macca]

It got to 40+ outside yesterday and we thought they would be fine. 2 black and a brown died, our white survived. Just.


Oh well, my daughter (3) took it better than my wife did which is hilarious. Haha.

Its been hot here but not like your place, cant get over how much water they drink though. Keeping a keen eye on the supplies for sure

[93patrol]

Put a mist spray up on super hot days over 35 apparently helps them stay cool. I set one up today

[Cuppa]

It got to 40+ outside yesterday and we thought they would be fine. 2 black and a brown died, our white survived. Just.

I read that it helps a lot to have some method of misting water over them in those sort of conditions. Failing that lots of bowls of water around.Apparently they can get a degree of cooling just sitting close to but between the bowls. Haven’t tested it though.

TD,Gloria was inherited but the folk who bought our farm (along with the rest of the goats, all the sheep, the cattle & chooks) but they decided she was a bully to the to Sloobie, Nibbles, Hazel & Bluebell (she was a bit bossy) & offloaded her to a friend of theirs who also have goats. I was a bit p*ssed off about that, she’d lived her whole life on the farm. I’m going down there to stay at our ex neighbours for the next few days & I’ll miss her being there.