MrsBFT Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Hi! Can anyone help by selling me some bumper bits and circlip pliers - urgently needed in Alton Hampshire as 2 Pepperpots received yesterday have brutally pecked the vent and surrounding area on one of my Gingernuts (also received yesterday). I realise the pecking order is being established but my poor Gingernut girl is really in a mess and being bank holiday nowhere will be open I will travel to collect, and pay cash. Im a new chicken keeper and this is really upsetting/not going quite according to plan!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimnpaula Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 If you're really desperate I have some somewhere - I'm in Kent. I can't help with the pliers though as I've never (so far) needed to actually put the things on. Paula Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBFT Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Oh thank you so much for replying, but I have now sourced some. Sorry I should have updated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekymonkey68 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Is all ok with your girls?? I know how that feels it happened to mine last year when I first got them!! I have both bumpa bits and pliers if you are ever in need, and just down the road ish!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBFT Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Is all ok with your girls?? I know how that feels it happened to mine last year when I first got them!! I have both bumpa bits and pliers if you are ever in need, and just down the road ish!! Hi. Thanks for your kind offer, and asking after them but unfortunately not. I had 4 delivered on Friday (my first ever ones) and a Gingernut was pecked so badly it died earlier today. Who knew I could get this upset about a chicken I hardly knew! The perpetrators were Pepperpots which have been temporarily rehomed with a friend as I needed to separate them but just dont have the 'facilities'. Tonight I have one lonely Gingernut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekymonkey68 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Oh no poor you! Thats really awful to happen just as you got your chooks. Did they all come from Omlet or a local supplier? My gingernut is the one that gets picked on by my two bluebells and a speckledy as she is bottom of the pecking order when I first got them within a week poor popcorn got a hole the size of 2p above her tail,(if it wasnt for the postman who separated them I think she would have died) and ended up living in the kitchen for 2weeks whilst it healed. It did settle with help of antipeck spray and bumpa bits. Thinking I might even up the numbers soon and get some ex batt/barns. I hope you'll be ok, as this clearly wasnt what you had in mind for your first week Let me know if theres anything I can do to help. Marion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBFT Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Thanks Marion, very kind. It has kind of dampened my enthusiasm. Clare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
