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The trials and tribulations of putting up a electric poultry fencing when you’re not built like Pluto
We recently brought an electric poultry fence in order to be able to move the hens and keep them safe as their run needs some seasonal work and the ground needs resting for a few weeks. Never having seen electric fencing for poultry let alone source or use one, we had yet another learning curve to climb. Mark and I researched as much as we could and asked friends who have hens and our wonderful friends on our Facebook page for any advice they could give. So suitably educated (or so we thought) I was set the task of buying one. Not being terribly good at measurements … Continue reading
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Tagged Battery Hens, Caged Chickens, Chicken Health, Electric fence, Poultry, Rehoming
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It’s official: Chickens prefer Weetabix!
Yes it’s true. In a straw poll (of my 15 hens) when presented with the choice of weetabix, cornflakes or rice crispies the girls preferred the weetabix. Don’t panic I don’t usually pamper my girls by giving them branded breakfast cereals. Not even my kids get that! It happened because I found some very out of date cereal packets in the family caravan. As you know I hate waste and as the cereals weren’t too full of horrid sthings like sugar, salt and fats that can harm chickens I let the girls have them! :0)
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Tagged Battery Hens, Chickens, Feed, Pictures, Rehoming, Treats
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Watch Jane Howorth from BHWT and Jimmy from Jimmy’s farm examine hens behaviour
If you’d like to know a bit more about how your hens think and why they behave the way they do have a look at this. It’s a 4 part programme that features Jimmy from Jimmy’s farm and Jane Howorth the founder of the British Hen Welfare Trust formerly the Battery Hen Welfare Trust.
Product Review: Red Top Fly Traps
Chicken Flies! This month has been horrendous for flies around our chickens. It doesn’t seem to matter how much I scrub clean and generally disinfect, whatever I do they are there. They aren’t in the hen-house thankfully just in the hen run especially on the hens droppings. I hate killing anything without good reason, yes even flies. However something had to be done. My closest neighbour mentioned she was having a few fly issues. Whether attracted from my hen run or from the rubbish that hadn’t been collected for weeks due to industrial action locally I don’t know. Whatever the cause I had … Continue reading
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Tagged Battery Hens, Chickens, Flies, Poultry, Redtop Fly Traps, Rehoming
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Hens on the run…..
Liz has gone away for a few days… so I’ve been given the important task of looking after her girls….. So, things started OK this morning. I put the hens food in their enclosure, before opening their coop (much easier as I’ve learnt you don’t get mobbed) and let them out a 5am before I dropped Liz off to catch the coach. Later on, I went to replace their water when I momentarily left the enclosure door open…. only just for a few seconds and that was it, 4 of them were gone, out and free. So I resorted to all the … Continue reading
The hazards of letting your hens free range
As a treat I thought I’d let my girls free range around the garden for the last few days. I must admit this was mainly with the vain hope they would see my ever growing weed patch and clear it for me. Having let them out to roam, I disappeared into the shed to do some “bits”. A while later on leaving the shed, I found the girls had completely ignored the weed patch and instead were engrossed in searching for worms and “titbits” amongst my flower borders. So now not only do I have to still weed my weed … Continue reading
Fabulous news from the USA
NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! Fabulous news from the USA about barren caged hens. It looks as if they’re coming into line with the EU. Fingers crossed it won’t be long before all the worlds hens will be living as nature intended free to roam and scratch and enjoy life. Rant over! Follow this link:
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Tagged Battery Hens, Caged Chickens, Chicken News, Chickens, Legislation, Rehoming, USA
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The end is nigh, or the importance of observing your hens.
I thought I had another hen with a nasty disease earlier today….. Whilst standing and watching them eat and scratch around, I noticed one of my chooks had a large black mark on her back where she has a few feathers missing. Having lost one hen not long ago, I was convinced I had discovered something hideous that was about to wipe out my flock and possibly civilisation as we know it. OK, a slight exaggeration but I was very concerned. So whilst she had her head in the feed trough I went in and gently lifted her up. Parting … Continue reading
Product Review: Red Mite Powder
Do you regularly dust your hens? Once Hen Mites have set it, its too late so, we regularly use
Twitter question: To dust or not to dust, Battery Hens
Following on my from “Battery Hen Spa Day” post, I recieved the following twitter question from Val Darroch (
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Tagged Battery Hens, Chicken Health, Chickens, Lice, Mites, Powder, Rehoming
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