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Is there anything that chickens can't or shouldn't eat? I know they are omnivorous and that they shouldn't be given raw or perhaps cooked meat but is there anything else that they shouldn't be given We want them to be as organic as possible and have access to organic pellets from a local farmer who ...

I was made redundant last August and as we had moved away from Cornwall for work in the first place 12 years ago we decided to use the payoff to get ourselves back down here where both our hearts and our kids all were. We have rented a lovely place that's ideal for us but the payoff has just about g...

Just been through this. Here's a couple of ssites I found useful and / or amusing.


http://www.freechickencoopplans.com/
http://www.backyardchickens.com/[/ur] [ ... /index.php

Pete

becks77 wrote:, love the run

so do I as it cost me a grand total of £2.49 for a load of screws. Everything else is off freecycle or recycled from something else including an old boat. Maybe not as pretty as some but as it is hidden in the trees and the hens couldn't care less does it matter?

Pete

P.S. It's taken5 hours to get our first egg Is this a record?

Pete

At last we collected the 3 hens from our friendly farmer neighbour today. http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s89/bodrighy/misellaneous/th_P5060679-1.jpg http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s89/bodrighy/misellaneous/th_P5060675-1.jpg http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s89/bodrighy/misellaneous/th_P506...

Nothing as exotic as that here in Cornwall. We do have a jay that has started coming in and collecting the seed that the tits are spilling onto the grass. Haven't seen one for years.

Pete

I did my bedroom like that when I was a teenager a few years ago ( ) I did it in orange with black stipres. Lasted about two weeks, drove me nuts. Glad to see that you have a better sense of colour.

Pete

Could it be this? Picture may be of some use

Pete

Looks like a living roo, it's so homely looking for a shop. Excelent work Both of you

Pete

Someone on another forum spotted one of these that I had made and asked me to make one for them. The just recieved it and were chuffed to bits with it. Lovely when people like your work isn't it http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s89/bodrighy/th_MP1.jpg It's a beech mortar & hazel pestle. Finish...

We lost all our courgettes the other day when our landlady's 'cute' little lambs got in the garden and bit off the rhubarb leaves and scoffed the courgettes. All SWMBO had to say was "They looked really cute skipping around the garden Mint sauce :angryfire: Mint sauce :angryfire: Mint sauce :an...

Managed to get 501 of chicken wire from Freecycle today so the hens will ahve a larger run than I expected. It will be about 20' x 10' and totally full of weeds, a few bushes and shrubs and part of an old rockery. I will be laying mesh down on the outside floor which will soon get grown through with...

I think I read somewhere that men's wee is better than women's for the soil. Don't know whyt. Also that tomatoes like it. Presumably on the ground not the fruit
Pete

They taste totally different. Slugs and snails love them as well. They'v had all ours already so we'll have to resow.

They also freeze well with a quick blanching.

Pete