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posted by Neil, 23 May 2012, 5:00pm [more]
It looks like it's going to be another pretty day at hencam. The girls are out scratching around and the little birds are singing...slightly foggy down toward Bradford.
Red, I hope all your critter adjust to their new home surrounding quickly. I'm sure your boys did just fine for the one night they were alone. Kate's right..they probably had a big party.
I just hope you get your new rabbit soon, CC. I know you are a great rabbit owner and you take good care of all your animals. I just wish you knew how to post pictures of them.
My hens have never had a problem with the color of anything..it must just have been the size and shape of the tunnel that upset your girl. I'm glad that you got it all sorted out and she's happy again.
Sorry, I'm rather ancient and not au fait with the terminologies. Glad you sorted your bovine hen.
You're sure it's a hen, not a bull...?
What a transformation , Karen removed the play tunnel and within 5 minutes she was a happy little Hen . Yesterday she spent all day in the blazing hot sun panting running round the perimiter of the garden trying to get out, while all the other hens just chilled out and had dust baths. Today shes scratching in the dirt and interacting with the other Hens as a happy hen should be. RESULT
GF means Girlfriend, come on Ollie get with the program
What's a GF please?
Brill!! Look forward to hearing the reply ...!
Well, if they're going to be so jobsworth about it and not look further than their tick-box, you have to be creative!!! When Cats Protection do visits they have criteria but also know about giving some leaway. If someone is adopting an elderly, arthritic cat, then I'm sure the home is looked at differently to a home for a 6 month old kitten. Those rabbits will be so lucky ...
sorry I think there has been some confusion
I'm talking about Florrie she seems to have egg binding but she has NO lumps near her vent and she OCCASIONALLY has her tail pointed to the ground. Which as I read on Red's thread, is a sign of egg binding! Is it egg binding??????
Tawny is dead! I can be bothered thankyou!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone have experience of hens getting a bit freaked out about the colour red? Our light Sussex, Cherry, for the last few weeks has been desperately trying to get out of the garden. On a few occasions she has and we had to search the area for her, we think we've made the garden escape proof now. The reason I ask about the colour red is that Karen, Kit, has put a long 6ft x 24@diameter red nylon tunnel, the sort of thing kids can play, in the garden were not 100% sure when she started to try and escape but this article I found made me think "Not sure if it is the color red - or the thing that is red. My chickens love red - if it is very small and something they can eat, like meat or red flowers. But if it is a big red thing, like a ...
You *think* it might be Marek's? If you even suspect it could be, you need to get your hens tested at a good vets. It is a serious disease and cannot simply be ignored. You need more than a bath for that!!! This is another case of people not prepared to take their hens to the vets when they are obviously suffering. If you cannot or are not prepared to take care of your hens (and this may mean paying for treatments, taking them to the vets, whatever), then YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE CHICKENS. This isn't a dig at the original poster (actually I suppose it is), but it's more a moan in general. How many poor hens are going to die in horrendous pain because keeping chickens is suddenly trendy and owners can't be arsed taking them to vets w...
I've just sent them a snottagram while I'm still grumpy! :D
Kate, you are a wicked and unscrupulous woman with no conscience whatsoever. And that's a damn fine idea...
I think now that it was mareks that caused tawny's death poor her. Florrie is a warren and she does not have any lumps near her vent but she does tend to have her tail pointing towards the ground should I try the bath for her??????
Sorry guys it wasn't florrie it was my other hen tawny she definitely was a weird and wonderful hen.
When I have the time and the money Red! (I'm also just a tiny bit worried that I'll get him done and he'll decide I'm horrible so not come back!) That's terrible CC! I completely agree with 1. and 2. Maybe you should write to Mercedes and demand answers / compensation for the day you lost and work you had to cancel.
They probably invited all the wildies in and had a party!!! As long as a rat has food, water, and rat company it's happy. They'll be pleased to see you when you get there - absence makes the heart grow fonder after all!
I think you've shocked us all there CC! It's good to hear they are finally doing something right. Can you not put the hutch up, get the rabbits, then put the hutch in the back of the shed and bring yours back out?! Then, next time you want a rabbit, you just get it out again! Look forward to hearing all about your new additions when they arrive!
I hope the move goes well, look forward to you being back on line, and especially hope LYLE AND KASPER HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY!!!
A very happy day to you Lyle. face-smile: Also to one of my house guests that arrived yesterday. A real treat for me. Not had any one stay over for years now. I wonder if I am becoming too much of a grouse-bucket? I certainly wear the Grumple-Gran hat a lot of the time. Anyway, you have a lovely day Lyle and don't let That Woman work you too hard!
Wow..the RSPCA is going to do something nice??? Goodness..I may faint!
My rant: my 1 year old car broke down on Saturday. Turns out it's a drive belt, a common fault in the batch of cars mine was in. I had to wait an extra day for them to get the belt in. 1. Why didn't they recall all the cars affected? 2 If it's a common problem, why not keep a spare poxy belt on the shelf in case? You're not telling me a Merc main dealer can't afford a spare drive belt!!!
They're desperate to rehome rabbits, see. We're going to have to have the hutch in a different place if it's longer, though, as we have a huuuuuuge honeysuckle trunk in the way there.
Happy Birthday, Lyle!!
How long since you can get him snipped?!
Woah it was BOILING at 10am walking the dog this morning - been inside packing since, glad I'm not the one shifting the heavy furniture!
Wow, I can't believe they tried to help you out - that's not like them!!
It's cool that you did this a little early so we got to see it before we moved ^__^ Lyle says thank you very much and he shall be sure to report back what his day was like as soon as we have internet I'm glad we're moving today and tomorrow is a chill out only day for Lyle and Kasper's birthdays! I can't believe the weather has picked up for the move / birthdays, if it's nice I think my dad's bringing us a £10 bbq over and we shall have a birthday bbq on the patio
We have a hunting dog (so very high prey drive) and loads of animals...Ron used to live in the living room on the floor, and in the early days Kasper would paw, scratch and jump on his cage, and he weighs 20kg! If the rat cage is on the floor he still gets very excited, but the rats put up with him and usually we keep them up high. I felt so guilty leaving them alone at the new house last night!!
oh that sounds more like it CC, good luck and glad to hear of your imminen arivals.
Development; they will give me a bigger hutch if I reroof it, then I can have 2 buns.
Seconded! Have a good one...
Happy birthday Lyle, have a really great day!
Eww!!! I know a few people that have rats and cats (I did!) and provided they were kept an eye on everything was OK. My two cats were 'mature' so not that interested in prey anyway. When the rats are in a cage the cat comes off worst - they stick a nose or paw on the cage and the rat bites. Rat 1 - Cat 0!
He's driving me mad because he won't leave Kitten alone! I put food out for her and if he's around he keeps jumping on her (literally!) to get a grip of her neck. Then I shout at him and it scares her! I'm trying to make sure he's in the house when I feed her now. But he's so sweet too - he came in today while I was cleaning the bathrooms and insisted on having fuss, rubbed and purred round me, and kept me company while I cleaned! Such a handsome (if frustrated!) boy!
I"m sure the pet shop will let you buy one for less than the re-homing fee. Some of these charities just don't look further than their tick-boxes. There must be another charity in your area doing bunnies - or what about gumtree or whatever it's called?
Borris is lovely! We've been rain-free too, but it hasn't been warm so still isn't a nice spring/summer day.
Thanks Lynn!! We saw Bella the dalmation again on our second walk!! Kasper initiated play this time and oh it was SO lovely! They were playing proper rough and tumble chase type games, really barrelling each other over and jumping at each other, Kasper never gets to play like that! They were playing around the water hole too which turned into a mudhole. Kasper was okay because he was brown but Bella as she was mostly white just turned the same shade as Kasper Her owner was brilliant and said it was really good that Bella was getting to play like this, and that it didn't matter she got dirty as long as she was having fun - hurray! I was stupidly sitting on the ground and got coated with mud by both of them, and Kasper spattered th...
Thanks Lynn! It looks a lot better than before Good luck with your chores! We have had a mysteriously rain-free day here :P
Red, you certainly have Kasper trained well, I'm really proud of you!
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history:I first had the idea for a live streaming online webcam in our chicken coop sometime around the summer of 2005. I did a bit of research and after some failed attempts with a USB webcam (too many wires in the chicken pen!) I saved up and bought an indoor wireless IP cam from ebay for around £100. It was cheap and quite basic, but it did more or less what I wanted, and formed the basis of the early days of the webcam. Unfortunately, as it was an indoor camera, it started playing up after a few weeks outside - I couldn't really complain as it had been out in wind rain and snow! With the help of my wonderful new henpals I was able to purchase a whole new cam system - a proper outdoor CCD camera which was even submersible in water! The upgrade was originally suggested by the Vasalini (of Vasalini's chickens fame) and took place on 12/03/06
The new camera provides a much clearer picture, and the new images are extremely high quality. The system is also running much faster and is a lot closer to the true streaming that I originally envisaged. Of course if you want faster streaming, you have to sacrifice picture size and quality, but hopefully I have struck a happy medium.
The original hencam was an IP cam which connected wirelessly to my wifi network which gave it access via ftp to the webserver serving these pages via my adsl connection. Thankfully the new camera is much more stable and gives a much nicer view.
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The first upgrade I was able to carry out was a large IR lamp in the coop, so you can still see the hens even in pitch blackness! You can watch them sleep, it's amazing how they seem to grab the odd forty winks in little naps through the night.
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