Cilla photo

Just uploading this of Cilla, Black Silkie Bantam, for a friend

2 week old Cream Legbar females

Got 2 two-week old Crem Legbar girls but they're still a bit flighty!

Quail chicks...

Dorothy + chicks...

Meet Hagrid...

Meet Dr Chicken...

Thats mee! :P

I wrote a feature for the June edition of Your Chickens magazine and there is is!
Have had lots of tweets and messages saying people like it, so hope they do! :)

Obsessed with hatching...

Lewis has gone from broody to obsessed!

I thought about setting a few quail eggs in my incy at Uni, got a bit carried away and bought 40 eggs from a breeder and another 36 from the Organic shop on my street who said they are fertile - they're due on the 21st, Nat's birthday.
'Cos of that and already having 12 bantie eggs in my Octagon 10, I needed another incy so my friend Lee saved the day + lend me his! :)

Then, I was on eBay and saw an MS Broedmachine incy on there. They're the best you can buy, made in the Netherlands and so don't often come up for sale... so I kinda bought it!

Is in Nottingham so ma friend at Uni there has collected it for me and I'll go pick it up.
One of these:

Annie, ma pekin, was on 3 eggs due this weekend but only one has hatched so far - a Speckled Sussex x Araucana which if is a girl should lay green eggs. Not sure if the other 2 will hatch late or not at all.

 Have got ma brooder ready for the quail chicks too (if they hatch)!

Is a Hagen Vision bird cage (like eglu's for budgies!) which has a deeper tray than my indoor rabbit cages so should keep them warm. I've got a big double height one of the cages for ma Diamond Doves and really like them!

Buzz was not amused.

My favourite photo from our Animal Science social :')

To infinity, and beyond!

Casual night out in Aber dressed as Buzz Lightyear

Lewis is broody...

I was going to wait until after exams but me is broody, wants chicks and kind of have 4 hatches on the go...

The 2 broody sisters are in a couple of ma broody coops in Tub Trugs!

Annie on the left is on 3 developing eggs which are due to hatch next weekend
Dorothy (Red on right) is on 5 developers due the week after!

Got 6 Call duck eggs in my new Brinsea Mini incy I bought from Cotswold Chickens which are due to hatch in 3 weeks time.

Also have 12 eggs ready to go in my Octagon 10 incy in Aber - Frizzles, Booted Bantams and German Langshans!

May try and hatch some Organic quail eggs just to see if they're fertile, friend is after some more so be a bonus if they do hatch!

Broody: Hatch 8 with Dorothy

Its hatching time again! :)
Dorothy, the Red Pekin I bought at the National has gone broody so I got 6 hatching eggs for her from Tasha.
A Speckled Sussex x Araucana and 5 Pekins... 2 Lavender (from Quigleys girls!), 2 Mille Fleur and a Cuckoo.

Popped a TubTrug full of bedding and the 6 eggs into a broody coop and she jumped straight back on them!

Day 0 ... due to hatch the weekend of 4th May!

Edible Garden Show 2012

Had a really good 3 days at The Edible Garden Show this weekend!

Was there on the PoultryTalk stand so took 6 of my chickens with me, some for the show cages and others to go in an Ark on the stand.
Doris (newly named!) one of the pekins I bred last year sat on top of the ark for all 3 days being stroked and picked up by kids, was surprised at just how friendly + chilled she was tbh! :))

Never put all your eggs in one basket ...unless its just to show different colours at a show

I did a "Chicken Keeping for Beginners" talk in the Poultry Ring of the Smallholders Marquee ... got in the Daily Mirror because of it and everything too!
Think it went ok, felt more awkward being centre of attention with people all around me rather than just 1-2-1 like on the stand and at work but was fine! Hopefully people took bits away from it + encourages people to get chickens anyway.

Rupert Stevenson took some photos at the show and sent them to me (thanks!)... some sensible photos I actually like for once!

 And this one which is on the homepage of the Edible website and in their news roll ... feel famous :P

Couple more...

There were loads of photographers from the BBC, Daily Mirror etc there taking photos + videos so may have been on a few of those. Know it was on BBC news telly but I didn't see it.

I was dressed as a Chicken for most of the show (why not?!) and went to see The Chicken Vet for a check-up.

I had a bad case of Northern Fowl Mite but they cleared that up for me ;)

Was a great show... Everyone there was really friendly + looked like they were having a good time - credit to the organisers!

I wrote a Beginners Chicken Keeping factsheet to go with the talk, Jamie had 800 printed and they all went! There were 6 different care-sheets in total and think 2 or 3 of them went completely with a chunk of the other ones going too so there was a load of interest in chickens.

Piglets!

 Cute goat kid!

Looking forward to going next year! :)

Reading Bantam Show 2012

Waitrose: Love Life, You Count

Sainsbury's Customer Service

Just found this online

Legend!

Lewis (age 20 & 1/12)

Photo Wall

Revision was boring me so I made a photo wall...

Music: Madeon - Pop Culture

Sherlock: King of the Castle

Hughie Nomming a tomato

Hughie ma tortoise eating a tomato :)

That is all...

Dissection: Mare Reproductive Tract

Last semester we dissected a Mare's reproductive tract, which was interesting because she was on oestrus.
As with all the dissections, we had to write it up but this time we couldn't just use the photos, we had to draw what we saw in the dissections and put them in the assignment ... was actually quite hard to draw them so had to try + trace it, esp in the proper scientific style! Looking at them now I think they look quite good once they were scanned in, didn't think so at the time!

So we started off with the tract, cut away the fat and bits we didn't need and got:

Dissected the vulva and vagina distally to see the interior + the cervix which is a folded smooth muscle with an interior cervical canal down the middle!

Dissected Mare reproductive tract:

 Cervix:

Then, moving proximally (up!) we found the oviducts and the utero-tubal junction + infundibulum:

Then we get to the ovaries, there were 2, one in oestrus and one in anoestrus.

So first the outside of the ovary:

Then a cross section of an ovary in oestrus (reproductively active mare) - you can see the follicles and corpus luteum:

Music: Various Cruelties

Am liking these at the moment too, Various Cruelties :)

If it wasn't for you...


and
Don't want to waste your time...

Music: Kimbra

Also liking Kimbra atm, quite a few good songs so may have to download or purchase another album!

Settle Down:


Cameo Lover:

Chicken Car Sticker

... it had to be done! :P

Music: Karmin covers

Also loving Karmin music atm aswell, they do covers with a couple original tracks.

When I first watched one of their videos I couldn't tell if I was in love with her or wanted to murder her...
A bit of both, love her voice and she's really fit but her hand movements really annoy me!

Do a really wide range of covers too and most are really good!


Forget You:


Set Fire To The Rain:

Music: Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

I heard about these on Twitter the other day and have become obsessed with them.

Ordered 2 of their albums for the car which have arrived, have listened to Making Mirros and really like it :)

Sherlock Santa Suit

Video:

:')

New car - VW Polo

Bought a new car!  :))

 Was £700 and from my old road! Went to see it at 2, rushed to the bank to transfer money, get the insurance sorted and then picked it up at half 3.
Had to go and fill it up with petrol + get it taxed but was fine.

Spent £3000 today so bad times for ma bank account! :P

Sherlock Santa Suit

Just found Trevor's Santa Suit so put it on Sherlock.

Cutest thing ever! :P