I've never had a problem- I check every day, sometimes twice a day if I can. They don't overheat the eggs and cook them or anything.
Then you won't worry.
Ah that's ok then, will probably be under a patio anyway and I'll wood paint it as well.
But then eventually when I got motivated to finish it it's actually reasonably decent for the price.
LolAh that's ok then, will probably be under a patio anyway and I'll wood paint it as well.
That little aviary thing in the picture with the babies I got for $220 and was thinking maybe I should have got something like that instead again because it's not too bad but **** me putting the stupid thing together. Halfway through trying to assemble it I just cracked the shits and it just sat there half completed for almost a year laying out in the open backyard
Making your own isn't the worst idea. Need a little brother doing their yr 12 woodwork class for their final project to knock us up something, could actually make it out of quality wood you would just need to buy the materials but free labour!Lol
You could probably buy a few bits of 4b2 from Bunnings and some MDF or plywood, some chickenwire, nails and a hammer and knock up your own design.
I reckon you could probably just google it, Kram- buy what the site says you need and have a go. It might be very therapeutic and maybe one of the old blokes down the road will come along and give you some tips. A lot of them are dying to do stuff like that but they never do it cos they don't need to build anything.Making your own isn't the worst idea. Need a little brother doing their yr 12 woodwork class for their final project to knock us up something, could actually make it out of quality wood you would just need to buy the materials but free labour!
I couldn't bloody do either woodwork or metalwork in the last couple of years because of going to such a small crappy school the TEE maths class I needed to do (was thinking about surveying) was on at the same time. Which sucked because eventually doing a trade it would have been useful and even just in general for handyman stuff around the house, instead I had to do a ****ing lame art class
What sort of rooster is it?
Did you manage to offload little Roo, Mattrox?
Yes. Gone. No more utensil-a-doodle-doing.
) can't keep living in and messing up my laundry!
Get a stick and tape it to its leg if it's struggling. I used something like duct tape and a strong stick on the leg of one of my big hens when the dog broke its leg. It healed with a bit of a lump but I didn't cut the tape off for about a month.
Nah it's back to normal already after 2 days, knew it would almost certainly get better but not quite this quick. Just must have been really sore.
That's really good. Might've been bruised, the poor little thing.
Very weird chickens
Was that the old lady who gave you fruit or whatever it was when your chook escaped?Locking the birds up last night after almost couple of months without seeing one I found a ****ing tick crawling across the back of the pen trying to get at the chooks. Didn't seem to have any blood in it when I squashed it so at least don't think it was successful. Guess I'll have to keep painting the ends of the perches with oil/poison for at least only another year or so at least until they eventually stave and die off
The lady that owned the currently vacant house next door was nice and she sadly died of cancer but bringing those things in has caused us no end of work and trouble!
The very first thing I noticed Teriyakicat when I pulled the Silkies out of the box up at Hammersley is that the breed appears to have an extra digit on their feet
Nah she lived there about a couple years ago and was only about in her 50s. I reckon it might have been a year or so after she left with her chooks until they eventually crawled across from her yard and found new hosts in my ones, just pure bad luck. That's why I couldn't work out where they came from due to the time difference. That's the problem with them, they can survive up to 3-4 years without feeding on a chook so you pretty much can't ever tell 100% if they have gone..
