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The chooks were isolated in a cage before being transfarred to general populace but maybe they had some bleeding from a bad lay or something, two attacks were witnessed and stopped but the chickens were too injurred and died later?

Any ending is just a new adventure waiting to begin

Good luck Muddywitch

I built this out of pallets and plastic from market gardeners greenhouse. unfortunately he had to sell up.

I'm going to try building turf walls as wind breaks around my more vunerable veg but never done this before, any advice or how to websites out there?

Has any one had this happen or something like it? Recently we brought 12 chickens from a free commercial operation, we split it with my mother and her partner, 7 for us and 5 for them. Our 7 are in with our others and producing eggs a rapid rate while two of mums have killed the other three, there w...

Croeso Fforddol and welcome to ish, if your project ever finds you in New Zealand you are welcome to visit us.

Found this on-line while doing research, sometimes the old ways are best or just plain fun

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_librar ... ices5.html

I don't know much about Britain but in New Zealand Freeview just getting started and its a pain, and its not free if you have to buy the dam thing in the first place, personally I just rent a good River cottage DVD or read a good book But don't replace what you don't need to just get set top box, ot...

Fashion, as in they have to have the things the media says, big screen TV's fancy cars, the right clothes, all the gadgets.

I built my first tunnel out of plumbing pipe and then brought the film separate, worked well saw a photo of door done with plastic and velcro zips

Thanks for the welcome, its nice to know there are like minds out their, most of my friends think self-suffiency is a dirty word and bow to the great god of debt and fashion

There are other options besides brick, I live in a high wind area and built my green house out of heavy grade freight pallets (Popped a disc lifting the :lol: things), Check out this website for some ideas http://summerville-novascotia.com/PalletWoodShed/ Also you could use unwanted tires ramed with...

Is this a world-wide thing or just here in NZ, each weekend we put a trailer stall up at our gate, with free range eggs, Veg, and Seedlings for sale, Most weekends its gone well but this weekend someone stole a dozen eggs right of the stand. It's not that its a lot of money but when your trying to l...

Polystyrene and corflute vege boxes from local fruit and vege shop, he just chucks them into landfill, I now plant seeds in them and display my seedlings at gate (in hrecycled pallet stall) and farmers markets

Greetings from the deep south, my wife, three boys, my self and anever growing population of poultry and animals live on 8 acres in rural canterbury NZ, we grow our own veg, eat and sell free range eggs, will slaughter our first pig this year and have two future lambe dinners arriving shortly. my bu...