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  1. gnipper
    I use matrix grit, the rollers loved it. Give them the minerals now and again in their own pot and leave a pot of grit in with them.
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    As they start to moult out young cocks will get a black tash just above the beak before the blaze has come through. The feathers on their shoulders are blacker in cocks too and like a greeny brown in hens.
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    Good luck
  4. gnipper
    I've never kept note before but I would say 3 to 4 months by the time the head moults out red, its the last thing to moult. Give em plenty of dark greens like dandelion leaves and broccoli etc and they will go red enough. You will need a sulfur drug to stop them going light through the moult, ive found baycox the best and they need a 2 days a month until they finish moulting. Feed them on a decent quality british finch mix.
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    Its the feathers around the shoulders that they use, the bit under your thumb on the picture. Personally I prefer going off the blaze and whiskers around the beak.
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    The parents are in my aviary but I'm using fosters in the shed. I'm pretty sure the hen would nest in a breeder though.
  7. gnipper
    No that's the raza that's reared them mate.
  8. gnipper
    Mixed nest of 2 mules and 2 goldies.
  9. gnipper
    They are too full and content. Cut the food back a bit, once a day when they come in from a fly and flag the little buggers up with summat like a landing net.
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    My first round of goldies, this was when they first jumped and they are fully weaned and eating now. I've used feeders to try and boost my numbers but I'm letting the hen sit them herself this time and she's back on 5 eggs now. I've not bred as many mules this year but still got a few to hatch and then I'm done for the year.
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    Wasn't there pictures of them on here before? I think they called them ferret dogs or summat?
  12. gnipper
    Bang em on straight wheat.
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    We have lots of 100 yard, 15 -20ft high alder hedges at work as windbreaks to shelter our crops, easier to cut than neat privet and beech etc but still not fun with a petrol hedge cutter. Some of ours are birch and hornbeam which are hard to cut. They get cut every year in autumn when birds have finished nesting.
  14. gnipper
    Hedge cutting at this time of year boys ? tut tut tut.
  15. gnipper
    Are they kitting together yet or bombing around all over the place?
  16. gnipper
    Definitely the most accurate description for the mental b*****d.
  17. gnipper
    There's loads of places doing stuff like that now, shouldn't be too hard to find one locally that helps folk breed their bullies etc that only cares what your cash looks like not the dog.
  18. gnipper

    65 today

    gnipper replied to Astanley's topic in General Talk

    Happy birthday Stan
  19. gnipper
    I forgot to ask what all their names are?
  20. gnipper
    If you get one then hopefully its of sound temperament for you. The one I had was physically sound but mentally unstable.
  21. gnipper
    You've done the right thing mate.
  22. gnipper
    Looks like there's plenty of other interesting reviews on their channel too.
  23. gnipper
    How much would amputation be?
  24. gnipper
    Birds and plants were later than normal this year so the horrible stripey b*****ds are probably the same.
  25. gnipper
    10 litres of water and a couple of bulbs of garlic?
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