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thats brill, lets hope the girls keep it up. my hens slowed down a bit on the laying with the frost last week but are coming on again.

Good Luck. jessie

Hi i have 6 tayberry bushs and they do grow quite fast, they do have lovely mouth watering fruit, i was putting manure around all my fruit bushs today will have to collect more for the fruit trees, i think it the weather that has us all out working the garden.

jessie

:geek: Hi i know a woman in the west of ireland , who soaks news papers first she rips the paper up and then soaks and stuffs it into the tetra pack and leaves it to dry totally out and put them in the stove and uses them for fueling the stove. great way for recycling paper and tetra packs. jessica ...

Hi i am new too only joined a few days ago, it sounds like you have a great set up. and i agree it a great site, i think i spent a lot of time on animal rescue sites.

jessica

Hi another thing thats works for hens that peck eggs is if you put some golf balls in the laying nest and try to collect the hens eggs as often as you can, that way they can peck the golf balls all they like and will not be able to break the golf balls they will such soon give up. i hope this is som...

:flower: Hi boots, its the nettles and blackberry thorns they don't like they like the blackberries , i did not get to clean it back last year so i dug them up before they start to get growing again, do you have any poultry? Is it warm down under , always wanted to go aus, i worked in uk, usa, holla...

Hi i have 2 , 1 small pony sandy and 15.3 rolo, up at my parents house , they just eat grass all day.only used for there manure.
I still do night foaling at a stud farm, will be over in a month or 2 , hoping
to buy sleeper for raised beds with the foaling money.

jessica

Thanks boots. my hands are full of thorns as i was cleaning a little plot, that over grew to let the hens out on as there run is getting a bit mucky
it was a beautyful day.

jessica

I know the feeling i went into a country market one sunday i only popped in for a min' and my side window was smashed in my kangoo and my bag with all the keys for gates, sheds, and houses that i pet sit and just calling in to feed animals while people are are way was stole. such a job i had sorting...

SORRY THIS WAS MENT TO GO INTO POST BELOW :flower: Hi i have my hens, and poly tunnel in which i hope to have infull swing with veg, and just a question/ is the money maker the best type of tomatoes to grow or is there a better type i allways grow the money maker maybe because they are good croppers...

:flower: Hi i have 3 little pugs cussy, wilson, and poppins, and 2 boxers billy and charlie, charlie is the newest one i took him out of the pound about a year ago and billy is a white boxer, no kids so i do foster a few dogs for animal rescues, last summer i had 16 little puppys that were born in t...

Hi to all, we have eating/ cooking apple , plum, pear, cherry.

jessica.

Hi, Once a hen has tasted an egg, she will probably appreciate the flavor so much that afterwards she will peck at every freshly laid egg , preventing this behavior is better than having to remedy it, if you gather the eggs every day. Sometimes though unfortunately not always help to cure them. For ...

:flower: Hi i am jessica from ireland and i think this site is fab, i try to be as selfsufficient as we can. we have hens and new tunnel 12 ft by 32 ft and have a lot of seeds ready to go in, i am use to growing my own veg has my parents always did. we also have 5 dogs :mrgreen: and they are notthin...