I start worming the girls

I worm the flock twice a year and it is now time to do this again. I find the easiest way is to divide some fish into little dishes with the flubenvet powder mixed in and make sure each girl gets a share. It needs to be given for seven consecutive days.

I wondered how to give Pebbles a chance to get her fair share and came up with a simple solution which worked like a dream. I put four little dishes on the patio and kept one smaller dish for Pebbles. I lifted her on to the top of one of the nest boxes, put her dish in front of her and stood guard to make sure none of the other girls got in her way.

She tucked in straight away and I have now discovered that she likes fish. I wanted to take some photos but I couldn’t get the camera to work. After a few minutes I took the card out and put it back in again and it worked once more, phew, thank goodness for that. This meant I missed catching the whole flock tucking in as by this time Speckles and Toffee had wandered off but they did all get a share before this photo.

The girls have fish laced with flubenvet

Pebbles has her own dish

Throughout the day Sophie and her serama breeder, Rebecca, have been trying to find me some seramas within a distance that we can manage. It’s been an up and down day of disappointment followed by success and excitement.

A big thank you to both of them for being so determined on my behalf and such a help to me. We now have a breeder less than an hour away who has seramas and we are going at half eleven tomorrow to choose two. I am so excited!!

I will separate the run as before and the integration process will begin again. There will be lots more posts to come with new girls once more. I can’t wait!