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I have 4 chicks, 1 red 1 black and 2 white. the red is still quite small but the others all look like little chickens now and are trying to escape every 5 minutes. They are curently in a stable which is where they can stay and we were going to give them free rein of the yard and garden. How do I go ...

Thanks for the offer but I am in surrey. we are ok at the moment but I am on the hunt for a run of some sort so that I can kepe them contained within the stable otherwise they will escape through the cracks

Oh please dont jump on the nursery school, they had made arrangements with a farm to have them before they took them on but they have been let down so they contacted me and it was all ery last minute as they were about to break up for the holidays. They looked after them really well, they had a heat...

Cripes, is it really gonna be 6 months before I can let them outside. I am not sure I can keep them in for that long. They are in a box on my sideboard at the moment. How d you normally keep them contained when they are bigger but not yet able to go out. I have stables that I can put them in but the...

I have put a fleece horse boot in there for them and right now they are making a racket. eating, drinking, pecking and stuff. I assume they also huddle together to sleep as it certainly isnt cold in here at the moment as the heating is on. The one that died was also the smallest of the lot. How old ...

ok thanks for that. I have brought the box indoors but we dont have central heating just a log burner which goes out over night so it can be a little chilly in the morning but not bad enough to stop my kids running around in the PJ's. I have got a cat but I have put the firegaurd over the top of the...

Hi all I got given some chicks (chikens of the egg laying variety) today by a nursery school who hatched them for the children and didnt know what to do with them. they are 1 week old and I have them in a large plastic box with a chicken feeder and waterer and feeding them chick crumb. I have out sh...

My husband wants to get some geese to fatten for christmas but I am not sure if our paddock is suitable. It is 2 acres on a very steep hill with average quality grass. we have a shed and water trough and the feild is part stock fenced and part post and rail with thick gorse bushes. it is bordered on...

Well you are pretty much in the same place as me but I think my hubby might take umbridge at going for a pint with a fella I met online.

Thanks for the offer though

would depend how far SW you are. I am in Surrey nr London

Dont mind travelling a bit if the price is right?

Thanks for the offer of help

ok now youve confused me. an earlier reply said buy them at two months old having been born between February and April. and then killed at the end of the summer.

also can anyone advise on which breeds are meat breeds and where I can find information about sheep sales.

Thanks That would work perfectly for me as we are getting a stables with 10 acres in March. How often do orphans need feeding, can I buy a lamb feeder which you fill with milk with teats on and they take it when they want it like calves? How much milk do they get through, is it a false economy buyin...

Oh well.

exactly when should I be planning on buying my stock lambs?? and I will try and find someone who is selling some.
How old will the lambs be, if they arent to be bottle fed by me

Ok thanks Store lambs it is then... We take them to a licensed abbatoir and then my butcher does the rest. I just turn up and get handed the carrier bags full of meat. VSS - whereabouts are you. I dont mind travelling to get them if I dont have to pay too much. The ones I got were surplas from a pet...

Hi Yes alpacas and sheep are great together. Alpacas are actually kept as fox guards in australia as they will stand and attack them if they feel the sheep are part of the herd. I have 3 young males for sale if anyone needed cheap to keep field guards with luxury fibre to boot. You need to have at l...