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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 It happened because I found some very out of date cereal packets in the family caravan.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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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
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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Spa day for Ex Battery Hens!
Well, it was time for our Ex Battery Hens to suffer their regular red mite dusting regime again. With 18 hens it’s never a 2 minute job. So donning the old clothes (I get as much a dusting as they do) I set off down the garden to sort them out. First I took their coop apart and gave it a thorough clean and dusting. This meant any lurking beasties hopefully were cleaned out too. So far we haven’t seen any sign of red mites and I’d like to keep it that way too, nasty little critters. Ok hutch cleaned … Continue reading
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Tagged Battery Hens, Chicken Health, Chickens, Lice, Mites, Powder, Red, Rehoming, Relaxation, Spa
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How to scramble eggs: the Rosemary dilema
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Tagged Battery Hens, Chickens, Cooking with Eggs, Rehoming, Scrambled Egg
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So what do you do with your chicken poo?
Not the sort of question you’d have at the dinner table but still an important one. Many people get so wrapped up in the excitement of getting their hens they forget about the more basic practicalities. Anyone that has been following our Facebook page will know I asked this question earlier in the week. Most of our followers suggest the compost heap is king. I agree it makes magic compost I have 3 compost bins and a veggie patch. However most of mine is bagged up (not the most pleasant of jobs) and taken to a local nursery that supports … Continue reading
