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Posted: Wednesday 16 April, 2008
Seven hours later, the first two chicks are in the brooder, a further three have hatched successfully and are drying off in the incubator and one is pipping. Only one is showing no activity yet.
I'd take some photos but Dan's taken the camera to London. Now what can there be in London that justifies a camera more than my cheeps?
Just off to move the three to the brooder!
Poultry hybrids tend to be specialist strains developed for the commercial market to produce either eggs or meat.
Older chickens tend to suffer with scaly leg mites more often than young birds. This mite burrows deep underneath the sc
Whether you want to produce your own eggs, raise birds for the table, breed poultry for showing or simply keep them as o
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Hello, I'm Rosemary Champion, aka the Accidental Smallholder. I'm a smallholder in the east of Scotland and started this website to help other people who are interested in smallholding to find their way, and to share my experiences.
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