there we go we've got the first um first two young birds they're happy they've been flying around
and the nine young birds from charlie are all out and flapping about we've got another couple
coming from charlie uh at the weekend to add to these and then uh the birds
from dave will be a couple of weeks after that so i'll have a fair few in the team
i've put this little ramp um just hop up before them outside the avery because some
of the younger ones struggled a little bit to to land and then get back up so
they drop onto that and then onto the floor and that seems to work quite well for them
so another thing i've done is i bought two drinkers um and i take one out
and leave it out give it a clean leave it out to dry and then i put some apple cider vinegar it's
something that a lot of people do i used to do it with the chickens when we kept chickens um so
i think it's like five uh it's ten mil per liter of apple cider vinegar and that's just to
hopefully keep the worms off them i'm not sure how long i need to do that for but um they're still
quite young and not had any real treatment so at some point i'm going to treat them for everything
i've got some hawkers four in one but you can't use that until they're eight weeks old so
so the plan today is i'm gonna sort this floor out the problem i've got is this is a
osb board and if you try and scrape it you end up picking up the flakes of timber out of the
glue together uh it slowly lifts up and it's i knew it wasn't ideal when i did it but
it was uh i had it to hand i could cover it in plywood and continue to scrape but a lot
of people say scraping isn't a great thing to do with young birds so um
now that they're starting to use the purchase a little bit more they're still in the corner with
the straw but more of them are getting on the perches i'm going to put some loft white down
and some easy bed so uh that's today's job and get some of that and see how they like
it i think it will make it feel a bit warmer in here because it does feel a bit cold um
it's still getting fully aren't you it's because you're white isn't it
i've given them a bath anyway so if they can enjoy that while i go and run these errands
so i've got the easy bed and the loft white uh calcium carbonate which i think is the same thing
and that's what i asked for um my white and this is what they gave me so um this is uh
what tony suggested from the pigeon club uh so he suggested i do this with a floor and while i was
there i picked up some more grit and also this uh the matrix which i've been reading about i can't
exactly remember there so i've used about a third of a bag a quarter i've heard something like that
um and now i'll probably put some more in but we'll see how we get on with that
and see how it affects the uh water i imagine they're gonna
imagine that's gonna get all inside the drinker um so i might have to
raise that off the ground a little bit especially now they're used to drinking from it might make
sense and um well we'll see how they go but it looks a lot more comfortable i can always add to
it if i need to this bit might be quite difficult because some of these have got mites i noticed
when i first got them and i bought some parker's four in one but unfortunately you can't use that
until they're eight weeks old and um these aren't eight weeks old the first two are getting there
why not bring mush mushmosh but the rest of them aren't so uh i want to get on top of that before
it becomes too bad in the infestation so i've got this uh antiparasite drops by vet schroeder
tollerson uh new 200 i think it was cold well sort of sold as you can actually say that on it so um
that broke the um i broke my clip okay well anyway i've got this um this v200 stuff so this should um
a drop of this on the back of the neck and that should stop the the infestation of lice
and some internal parasites as well so we'll give this a go i've got to try and catch them
now so that's gonna be really difficult who wants to uh be first ryan not brian and you
have one of you guys yeah right not brain you're one that's got the most life so
i'm gonna freak you all out too much but i'll try to
all right okay let's go for you smaller guys first okay
white tips okay so this is white tip
and uh white tips the smallest i think of the lot but not the youngest second oldest actually
all right i've got to somehow get a drop of this onto lucky or neck haven't i
all right
how do i do this thing
let's do
i think that was one drop yeah okay so that's 1982
two lives on me
i'll show you i'll show you what they look like when i get the next one
so that'll have more of me shortly um 82 86
nobody all flying off there i'm still gonna get
if you can see
these are the lights
you see i'm moving
so this is what the lights look like
it's on my t-shirt i've squashed a load of them
these little buggers
all on them apparently they don't do too much damage but it makes them really uncomfortable
so they can't get any rest so i shall be uh boiling this t-shirt
and hoping the dog doesn't get them and i don't get them more importantly