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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Womble on January 01, 2012, 05:49:17 pm
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OK, so without wishing to divert the exciting discussion on chicken dandruff (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=20437.0) ;) on the other thread, I was a bit taken aback at the criticism directed at poor Knightquest for his lack of housekeeping.
So, I thought I'd be the first to admit that mine isn't much better:
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/Blutack/TAS2011/foxbait.jpg)
There's just as much poo underneath the perches in our coop, albeit mixed in with a bit of hemcore bedding. So, I'm going to admit that I only clean it out every two weeks, and have been known to top dress with hemcore and leave it a bit longer on occasion (and when I did, it filled an entire wheelbarrow!!). However, the ventilation is good, the coop isn't damp, and doesn't smell.
Likewise, the geese get done every two months whether they need it or not :o.
Am I really a bad person? Should Knightquest and I both be forced to spend a night on the naughty perch to for pay our sins?
Come on folks, 'fess up - it's theraputic! ;) In fact, I dare you to go out RIGHT NOW and take a pic of your coop in whatever state it's currently in.... anybody feeling brave?? :o
P.S. Thanks for posting your photo (http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h43/knightquest_photos/IMG00293-20111231-0744.jpg) Knightquest - it reminds me a lot of the bonnet of my landrover, which is where our hens hang out and poop on wet days. I do get some funny looks in the work carpark though, come to think of it! ;D
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I have only 2 chickens and 2 ducks at at the mo- I spot clean under perches/nest box most days and full clean and disinfect/mite treatment once a week.
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Cleaned my hens & quail out yesterday. (*smug!*)
but .... they were in a similar state - its been so wet, its a struggle to clean them out & keep them clean so they've been "topped up"
I confess to mucking out more often when it isn't winter.
one pen of three girls have chucked out a load of shavings into the previously spotless (almost!) outside paved area, so that is now all wet >:(
I've had words with them, and one presented me with an egg, so all is forgiven! They've not laid since about october!
Altogether we have 6 separate bird houses & runs, so it can take a while....
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For me it depends on what sort of coop it is, how many birds in it and what age they are. I'll fess up to not cleaning the growers solway plastic arch for a whole month and just throwing in a fresh layer of eco-flax once a week.
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We 'poo pick' clean our coops every day without fail, but they are built for accessibility to do it. The runs as well to save moving them onto new grass too often. This keeps them all healthy, us happy and satisfies Animal Health if they call unexpectedly -registration is compulsory if you have more than 50 chickens. The longest we ever went without cleaning out coops was 7 days 2 years ago, as we went on holiday. As soon as we came back they were all completely stripped and bedding replaced.
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I'm intrigued by the daily poo picking thing, mine are so messy that picking isn't really an option!
Womble, I'm with you - honesty is the best policy. I don't clean my hen house out as often as I should. God, chickens poo A LOT. The chickens are free range, well fed, snug and safe, if a little stinky from time to time. When I do clean it out they get the full works, and I throw hay in regularly, my conscience is almost clear. My hen house has a slidey-out floor which is a bloody nightmare. I didn't know any better when I bought it, now I would spend more time looking at the ease of cleaning when buying a house. A topic for another thread, I reckon.
On another note, there do seem to be random attacks of criticism on this (wonderful) forum which have caused at least two people that I'm aware of to leave, which is a great shame. I find it enormously useful, and have met Sandy, Northfifeduckling, Robert & Lillian, Taz, and you Womble, all in the interests of buying and selling amongst ourselves, which is one of the lovely things and great benefits about being part of a smallholding community. I dislike the sudden ganging up which occasionally happens when some poor unsuspecting soul posts a thread about something like wanting a micro pig...... BAM! I didn't see Knightquest's thread, so can't comment on that. Honesty is commendable, kindness is optional - but advisable. In my humble opinion.
Conscious of my New Years resolutions, I have had several of my five a day in the form of (rather a lot) of bloody mary, and washed down a multi vitamin pill as a nod to my 'must be healthier' resolution. So I'm well on my way to resolution excellence. HOWEVER I am close to contravening the rules about posting while under the affluence of incahol, which should be strictly adhered to, particularly concerning offyourfacebook. So I may get shot down for my post and regret it in the morning. In Vino Vertias. Or in my case, In Vodka Veritas.
Cheers!
:dunce:
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On another note, there do seem to be random attacks of criticism on this (wonderful) forum which have caused at least two people that I'm aware of to leave, which is a great shame. I find it enormously useful, and have met Sandy, Northfifeduckling, Robert & Lillian, Taz, and you Womble, all in the interests of buying and selling amongst ourselves, which is one of the lovely things and great benefits about being part of a smallholding community. I dislike the sudden ganging up which occasionally happens when some poor unsuspecting soul posts a thread about something like wanting a micro pig...... BAM! I didn't see Knightquest's thread, so can't comment on that. Honesty is commendable, kindness is optional - but advisable. In my humble opinion.
I didn't see the original post other than via Womble's link. I agree on the blend of honesty and kindness - the last thing we should want to do is put anyone off asking for information or advice for fear of being pilloried.
On hen house cleaning, we have two 8'x6' houses - I don't clean them routinely but I do clean them regularly and they get a good clean and dust with Diatom. I do the nestboxes every day though. Sometimes other things take priority. Such is life.
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I couldn't put a set time on how often I clean mine - its usually when I look at think "OK, they need doing now!" and I aim to do this every saturday. we have 2 coops and this time of year they get very muddy, fallen leaves and twigs get traipsed in and can very quickly get to looking like knightquests coop. The nest boxes are kept cleaner, I flick 'em out every day with a little spade (that I stole from the kidlets but its just the right size!)
I don't want to see Ian/knightquest feeling he is under attack - he is quite possibly one of the nicest people I've 'met' on here and I know from chatting with him that he cares for his animals a lot :bouquet:
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Pillioried. An excellent word which I never use. I shall steal it and use it on a regular basis from now on. Marvellous.
Try these on for size - a few of my favourites, all underused;
Horripilations
Formication
Aeolist
Batrachophagous
Slubberdegullion
Pass the wine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillory)
And although I've never met you, Plums, you're a star. :bouquet:
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Likewise Dizzycow!! Batrachophagous ?! I like that one. I
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I clean mine out once week - they've gone a fortnight with a top-up when I've been I'll. Each time I spray the perches and under with TotalMiteKill and sprinkle with diatom powder.
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You're a better chickenkeeper than me. We do our best....
As Rosemary said, sometimes things take priority. It's sod's law that on the one day that there is no work, kids are occupied and other jobs are done, it's lashing with rain! C'est la vie.
Plums, going to look that up. Sounds excellent. ;)
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Oh, it was mine! Ha ha ha! Pass more wine..... Sod it, it's NYD! Ha ha! xxx
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;D LOL it was yours!! I had to google it to find out what it meant. how many have you had dizzycow!! love it ;)
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Nothing whatsoever. Hic.
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I clean mine out thoroughly once a week but I am registered to sell eggs and they can call any time for an inspection! It is entirely dependant on weather , amount of chooks etc. Just be sensible , every chook house is different.
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WARNING this post started as a mucking out comparison and has so for been an education
now i don't want anybody falling out or over mucking out of any animal or bird can be a comparison of different ideas when cows were tethered up in byres some mucked them out twice or three times a day one it was warm inside in winter and a little often was a good idea others mucked out just once a day times moved on and cattle are housed loose in sheds and mucked out at best twice in the winter the deep bedding giving warmth to the animals poultry some go the Little and often route deep litter housing is not mucked out till the poultry leave the shed then it is deep cleaned our hens are cleaned out once a month
an education due to dizzycow and her words that she posted i did like them
now if advice is asked and given by different people it is up to the one that has asked what line of advice to take if any no question is stupid and no answer is stupid maybe out of kilter but maybe just right the most recent falling out was over the colour of a dog i don't take the cream puff so why do so many spit the dummie out
now if it was mucking out pigs that is one controversial subject and there housing the slurry will hit the fan
but anyway it is up to the individual what method how many days between mucking out what they bed them with what they do with it will it end up somebody comes on asks advice and everybody crapping themselves so much they wont acknowledge that there is a plea for assistance i hope the asking continues and the advice continues even if it does not suit everbody peace love and drink to everybody :farmer:
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Punctuation, darling, punctuation. Heh heh heh. Bite me. ;D
And quite right, perfect commentary. Just been reading the dog thread. I'm the first to take the cream puff, though, and I think that everyone should play nicely, Karma and all that guff.
Peace, love, drink, and EXCELLENT sausages. Right, Roberto, I have customers for you. But they can't be arsed to go all the way over to the lovely spot in the arse-end-of-nowhere. We need to get something sorted out.
Feel the loveeeeee, pass the winneeeeee...... :yum:
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what is the cream puff?!
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I must admit I clean out everyday (only two houses, 8 x 4 and 6 x 4 Sheds) I always turn their nest boxes out and shake up the straw. They have shavings under their perches so it's easy to pick up that poo (use thin rubber gloves) pick up poo in the runs (wood chips) and grass areas I find it stops the grass from getting burnt from the poo. (I use a coal shovel with a plastic tinned garden rake to hook it onto the shovel)
The do get to run free range after lunch (I work some mornings) so there's not so much in their runs etc.
I reckon it takes about 20mins to do both sheds/pens.
But then i muck out my sheep sheds everyday as well...but i only have 13 sheep.
Each to their own way of working and the time they have to to do it in. As long as the animals health is not jeopardised by cleaning out every day/week/month etc then it's up to that person to decide how they want to do it.
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Huff!
EVERY DAY? Lucky chickens. Or pookies, as we rather embarrassingly call them. See, they're loved! If neglected from time to time. I need to get me some of them shavings, darn it.
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Huff. Like some people on here do.
I'm with Womble. So long as the hens are healthy and bodily clean, and beastie free, can't see any harm in letting mucking out slip for a bit if there are more pressing things to be done I probably deep clean my henhouse every 2 to 3 weeks, with diatom and mitekill shooken and sprayed all about. I also have a gravel run which is hosed down and sprayed with jeyes regularly and that has to be done after dark when the chickies have gone to bed, so that it's dry and safe for them in the morning. Obviously that's easier to do in winter when it has a longer time to dissipate than in summer. I also throw in extra bedding on a sort of deep litter basis if I find time pressing, although that does make it more difficult to clean out when I do get round to it. Nobody's perfect. ::)
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I don't think Ian will take a huff at what was said - he's far too sensible :wave: But what would be the point of answering a question such as his if we all politely ignored the elephant in the room? The fact that his hen coop needed cleaning out is not shameful, it's just a fact, but it is relevant to the question he asked, because the scaley debris shown would perhaps not be noticeable in a freshly cleaned house, and if it is caused by a parasite leading to increased preening, a cleaner house might help.
I certainly hate to see people ganging up on others but in this instance I don't think anyone was ganging up on Ian - for me, I was simply trying to think through the possible causes.
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that ties in perfect dizzy the shaving supplier is in the arse end of nowhere as well you would get 10-15 in the back of the disco will pm you on the sausage side of things your couping the blood Marys i am on the fosters leave the brandy and vodka for another day
you are lucky i mastered the spell check have not progressed to :punctuation :farmer:
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Oh Robert, I feel another trip to the arse-end-of nowhere coming on.....! Shavings sound good, though. The hay gets stuck in the bloody pully-outy-base thing.
Bugger the punctuation. What's the odd full stop amongst mates? Loving your spell-checking action, though!
Fosters? Really? I'll bring you a bottle of my sloe gin when I next trek into the back of beyond.
Seriously now, the sausages....... No wonder Lillian has all those awards hanging from the wall. She's a demon sausaggggieeerrre. MMMMM. :yum:
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Doganjo, Charlie T owns the sire of our cocker spaniel pup. He (Charlie, not the dog) was at school with my sister, He's fantastic with the dogs, and a great guy. Anyone looking for help with their dogs would be well advised to go to him. He took my in law's sprocker while they were on hols, and turned her from an unruly pup to being well on her way being a good gun dog. We'll be breeding from our bitch in a couple of years, and as it stands have all the pups bagsed already, however I may be posting an advert on this at some stage for any pups not sold....!
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Phew
I thought I was bad for not doing it once a week. Longest mine have gone is 12 days, but I am very fussy and need it spotless before putting in fresh bedding. As long as they're healthy and happy,that's the main thing!! :)
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what is the cream puff?!
Taking the cream puff - taking the huff. Does that help? Spitting oot the dummie?
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Now, confusingly, in West Fife, there's an expression, which is ' in ma puff'. Not to be confused with 'in a puff'. Tricky business.
12 days? My chickens should be so lucky. Report me to the SSPCA immediately.
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well in central Scotland a poke is a bag in northern ireland a poke is an ice cream in Geordie land it is sex just imagine the confusion in bridge of Allen when the Geordie's came up to renew the water pipes going into the bakers and being asked if they wanted a poke to go with there pie :D :farmer:
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Now we digress. A good few years ago I was walking through the park in South Queensferry. I walked past a group of young people, and one of them called out to me 'Hey! Missus! Yer cat's deed!' So I went on my way to college in Dunfy and relayed the encounter. They all looked at my ankles and laughed, and said 'Aye, yer cat's deed.' Now, I'm from South West Scotland, where dead cats and ankles have no business being in the same sentence. In Central Scotland, however, it means that your trousers are too short. They were. They're not now. They are, however, encrusted with chicken s**t. So there.
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south west Scotland will have its own colloquial terminology so you were walking in south quensferry and made your way to dunfermline hope you were not walking esp on water ;)
ps you were lucky you were not walking in the park in toryglen (glasgow)
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I GOT THE TRAIN!! Doh!
Anyway, in SW Scotland there are loads of colloquialisms. CAE. Plural for cow. There are loads, but the Vino Collapso kicked in a while ago, as you know, so the memory is long gone. But it's the cadence of speech which makes every region of Scotland particular.
I'm sure I could walk on water right now, or even fly.......!
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Simples when they need cleaned out & when Ive got time, cheers gin going down well tonight. wahoo.
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Hear hear. Chin chin. ;D
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Doganjo, Charlie T owns the sire of our cocker spaniel pup. He (Charlie, not the dog) was at school with my sister, He's fantastic with the dogs, and a great guy. Anyone looking for help with their dogs would be well advised to go to him. He took my in law's sprocker while they were on hols, and turned her from an unruly pup to being well on her way being a good gun dog. We'll be breeding from our bitch in a couple of years, and as it stands have all the pups bagsed already, however I may be posting an advert on this at some stage for any pups not sold....!
I think he's great! His Mum lives in Culross and is friends with my pal. y pups are usually all bagsed before matings too - well done! Put photies up of yer we girlie. Do you work her?
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Mine get cleaned out, errr, not very often. It's only a 4x5, only 5 + cockerel, but it's the fact it's only about 4.6ft high and I have to go in on my knees that puts me off. They are out in the fields all day, and its dry in there, but now I feel guilty so that's tomorrows job (if it's not raining and a swamp down there).
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Lucky chickens. Or pookies, as we rather embarrassingly call them.
Me and my family: Bok-box. (And I call them, "Bok bok. Bok bok.")
BH: choox. (He calls them, "Chook-chook-chook")
It did take BH's hens a while to learn that they are now bokbox and should come when called thus, it means corn!
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I call 'em chooks too :D
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Hello Chaps and chapesses :wave:
I took absolutely NO umbridge at the comments whatsoever. I am impossible to offend and I won't stop asking questions ;D
I have put an explanation on the other thread as to how often they are cleaned out etc so I think I'm doing ok anyway.
On a final note, thanks for the kind thoughts plums :) and Dizzycow - can I have some of what you are drinking??? ;D ;D
Keep smiling folks.
Ian
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my lot get the dropping board scraped every cou[ple of days, depending on the amount on it....and the nest boxes (where a couple of them sleep, please stop that girls!) everyday. the floor gets done on a need to basis.
the goose run i sweep every morning, it has a rubber mat, but their house only gets done in the spring, i check it everyday, but they don't poo in it! nice clean birdies, geese!
the ducks...oh my word they are dirty little blighters....i do them about once a week, they just have to put up with it, its their own fault!
thye all free range all day long anyway,
and, i am incredibly jealous that you lot where on here having drinkies and chats whilst i was at work, damn you!
who got the pig in a poke yesterday then? lol!
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oh dizzycow, you did give me some giggles last night! I'm so glad that a conversation about chicken sheds and poo can turn into a friendly chat with us all and Ian I was worried about your feelings so I'm glad you are fine about it all - because it seems apparant to me that we all clean our coops out about as often as each other and yes, they get pretty minging very quickly!
I do lean heavily on my children to help, they did ask for a hen of their own so I shout "right chicken owners ...this way..." and they all do their bit. Milli the eldest has to do goat duties because she is keeping a new kid in March but the other 3 shovell chook poo.
and thank you for explaining "cream puff" - you'd think i'd have a fair guess at these things being from a cockney family but no, I was trying to keep up with dizzycow (but on the plum wine) so was a bit slow ;)
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Plum wine sounds goooood. Or bad, bad for me, that is. More drunken ramblings may occur. I bought wine making thingies last year, but haven't made anything yet. Now, if I could become self sufficient in wine I'd be loaded! ;D
Doganjo, we should be working our cocker, she's very bright, however she was intended as a family pet who can go out on a shoot and she's just had her first day. She shook with excitement the entire time and just wanted to play with the other dogs. Unfortunately she has a nasty habit of buggering off, and taking our matronly lab with her. I'm so worried about the roads and them causing an accident. So we can't let the pair of them out together, they have to go separately, it's a nightmare. When we first got her and she was about three months she disappeared. We searched for 24 hours, dug up every rabbit hole for miles, cried and cried, friends came with their dogs to help look, so traumatic. There's an infrequently used railway line nearby, she had crossed it and jumped down into a drain hole and couldn't get out. We couldn't hear her bark because the railway line is built up and she was below the ground. We were lucky that it didn't rain that night, she could well have drowned. Oh, the joys.
So we should be working harder with her is the answer. BUT she does retrieve eggs which my cream legbars lay behind the hay bales, comes in (through the cat flap) with such joy when she finds one, it's adorable. Very soft mouthed.
We're looking forward to breeding from her, it's not something I've done before. I've been trying to attach a photo of her (she's very beautiful) but my files are all too large. Drat.
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Wow what I have missed in one night :o
Chickens here, yes well, the girls in the ebay coop get about weekly clearouts - the slide out tray doesn't because the wood warped very slightly and I have to reach in through popholes and the nextboxes so it's a bit of a faff on my back ::)
Sadly the new gang have yet to be cleaned out after 2 weeks - the coop I bought with them was hand made and the back comes off but is sitting against the fence so again requires contortions or a complete lift away. With George the way he is right now, I'm avoiding it and just taking a couple handfuls out when I reach in for eggs :(
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"Quote" from Wombles first post.....
Come on folks, 'fess up - it's theraputic! In fact, I dare you to go out RIGHT NOW and take a pic of your coop in whatever state it's currently in.... anybody feeling brave??
..........(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae26/thomsett_bucket/P1026891.jpg)
scraped out regular --- dry clean chooks are happy ones!
Tilly
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Come on folks, 'fess up - it's theraputic! ;) In fact, I dare you to go out RIGHT NOW and take a pic of your coop in whatever state it's currently in.... anybody feeling brave?? :o
This is one of several coops we have, I've taken a pic of this one because it's the most awkward one to clean and wooden. It's supposed to sleep 9 hens but it's anyones guess as to how many sleep in it. Day after it was last cleaned out, 3 slept in it, this morning I counted 15. Last time it was cleared out was 26th Dec, Boxing day. Scrapped it out, threw in a dusting of diatom, some eco-flax, more diatom, fresh perch. It gets hosed out, steamed & done with jeyes after 6 months, then set aside. We try not to use the wooden coops all year, give them a break, help kill off the redmite.
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Womble what breed is the one at the bottom right, next to the very end one? I have a cockerel of that breed, bought in a mixed bag, well box, of chicks. He is so lovely I'm reluctant to eat him and so friendly.
As to cleaning them out. At this time of year and in this weather I just throw in fresh shavings and straw when it looks a bit horrible. They have plenty of ventilation, doors are always open, and they seem happy and healthy. In more clement weather when flies are about they are cleaned out at least once a week.
Dizzycow, your posts made me laugh so much ;D ;D I too am sorry not to have joined in the New Year booze and chat but work called and had to be answered ::)
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Hi Sylvia, Do you mean the silver and black one that's had its head cut off? The honest answer is i really don't know. He's offspring of one of the 'indigenous' black hens here, but with a Welsummer Dad. So, I have no idea what's in his ancestry, but the girls are great layers, and really hardy, whilst the cockerels seem to come out in all sorts of colours.
The big chicken in the middle is a refugee from Christmas, and may get to live a little longer, since she's still small, and frankly I'm fed up of plucking and gutting for now!! ;D
Tilly - love the Silkies, but I know I could never keep them clean - we've just got too much mud about! ;D
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Relieved you found me amusing, and not obnoxious! I should know better than to scoff wine while on the computer. Very bad idea! (Although I rather like the idea of all of us getting merry en masse and gassing away throughout the evening!)
I am also very impressed with how clean the silkies look. I can't be bothered to go and photograph my coop, but although I cleaned it out on New Year's Eve I know that it's poopy and pongy and would impress nobody. C'est la vie.
Womble, have you been posting photographs of headless chooks again?
We're hatching as I type. Four down, four to go. So they'll be POL by summertime and I can sell them. I'll be RICH, I tell you! Hahaha! :chook:
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DC - The headless chook thing is perhaps an omen, as he is destined to become Tikka at some point this week anyway!!
Also, don't count your hens before they've hatched. They'll probably all be cockerels anyway - mine always are!! ;D
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Most definitely not obnoxious dizzycow - on the contrary, it was one of the best 'nights at the pub' I've had in ages!! It seriously felt like that and was lovely. Being as I live so very far away from nearly everyone on here its the closest I'll get to clinking glasses with the friends I've made on here.
Now I WAS going to photograph my coops today but I've been out so by tomorrow it will be dirtier :-\ i might have to clean it and that would defeat the object!
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Mine are cleaned out every day, the ducks and turkeys every two/three days, although I do poo pick. I had a criticism about them being too clean once! ???
Erm, I'd like a micro pig :pig: ;D ;D
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chink chink
our turkeys were on deep litter after they vacated there lodgings the pigs moved in they soften the litter and make it easier to muck out once they are out it will be steam cleaned and become the isolation facility :farmer:
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chink chink
our turkeys were on deep litter after they vacated there lodgings the pigs moved in they soften the litter and make it easier to muck out once they are out it will be steam cleaned and become the isolation facility :farmer:
That'll be lillian's job then, eh? ;) ;D ;D ;D
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chink chink
our turkeys were on deep litter after they vacated there lodgings the pigs moved in they soften the litter and make it easier to muck out once they are out it will be steam cleaned and become the isolation facility :farmer:
That'll be lillian's job then, eh? ;) ;D ;D ;D
:D :D :D :D :D
Black Raven - if you want a micro pig, get yourself at least 2 (do as much research as possible beforehand) but don't expect them to stay really small and PLEASE don't keep 'em in a house. If you want any advice just pm me. Me, I much prefer my Kune Kunes...
but that's a whole different topic and not one I'm wanting to start off again ::) :D
Karen :wave:
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Annie we work as a team
forgot about the micro spit spit spit pigs i think black raven was at the wind up just to get us going but if they are daft enough to believe in micros £700 gets you the small Hampshire piglet :farmer:
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MICRO PIGS? WHAT? WHO SAID MICRO PIGS? DID YOU KNOW THAT.....etc etc, blah blah blah.
It's like pulling the pin on a grenade and chucking it into a group of obstreperous smallholders. Duck for cover.....!
I agree, HH, Kune Kunes are fabulous, although the pair I know are ginormous and really need to see a dentist. :pig:
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i am a dentist :farmer:
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A man once said that to me in a pub. 'Show me your teeth, I'm a dentist.' he said. Stupidly, drunkenly, I opened my mouth. Which he zoomed in on with his. He's not a dentist. He's a perv. One has to learn from one's mistakes, doncha know.
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I want one to cuddle ;D That guy who breeds them lives quite near to me :pig: :pig: Seriously though I love Kune Kune, my friend had two until recently, but my heart is with the GOS and I really like the Saddlebacks.
There are many pervs around, one wanted to take me badger watching. ::)
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this is not the pub and is an open forum and lechery would be rounded on
anyway if it is the tusks that has to be cut i have just the tools
only seen badgers once two boars fitting over a sow oh you mean the other badger
black raven the Hampshire's are better than saddelbacks and other than the hams and the pricked ears are there double ;) :farmer:
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Bring on the lechery, I say. And it feels like a pub from here! Hee hee! Badger? ROBERT ARE YOU BEING RUDE? Behave. The Kune Kunes with the tusk issues are up at Glenelg. Which is closer to Dunfermline than Avonbridge........!
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I used to do a bit of badger watching what does that make me ;D ;D
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i'm too much of a laydeeeee to say.
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He was in his forties at least and I was only in my late teens, and he had a beard with things lurking in it. ;D ;D ;D
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He was in his forties at least and I was only in my late teens, and he had a beard with things lurking in it. ;D ;D ;D
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! ;D
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I clean mine out on a Sunday every week, but......
only because I put straw in the chickens run to stop the little preciousess feathery feet getting muddy. I hate mud!!
I take all the straw bedding out of their caravan, and chuck it on the floor of the run then put fresh inside.
Mine are know by name sort of.
Ichabod (sleepy hollow anyone?) the pekin cockerel and his ladies.
Henry and his ladies aka 'the council' (make loads of noise and do bugger all!) the wyandottes ;D
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dizzycow are you on the swallie the night again :farmer:
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I clean mine out on a Sunday every week, but......
Sorry colliewoman, I thought you were referring to a beard :D after my last post was on about beards and I'd forgotten what the topic was originally about ::) ;D ;D I think I better lay off the drink!!!
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I was thinking the same Daaaaaa ;D
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I want one to cuddle ;D That guy who breeds them lives quite near to me :pig: :pig: Seriously though I love Kune Kune, my friend had two until recently, but my heart is with the GOS and I really like the Saddlebacks.
There are many pervs around, one wanted to take me badger watching. ::)
A boy I fancied when I was a girl offered to take me badger watching. I thought he meant "badger watching" and was quite excited ;D Guess what! We watched badgers ::)
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I clean mine out on a Sunday every week, but......
Sorry colliewoman, I thought you were referring to a beard :D after my last post was on about beards and I'd forgotten what the topic was originally about ::) ;D ;D I think I better lay off the drink!!!
;D ;D
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A boy I fancied when I was a girl offered to take me badger watching. I thought he meant "badger watching" and was quite excited ;D Guess what! We watched badgers ::)
Fantastic!! I'd love to go badger watching, but I don't know where there are any sets locally (good job really, because much as I like them, we don't really want them here). Did you know we now have our first home-bred beaver for many years up in Argyll? Now THERE'S an innuendo if you ever wanted one! ;D
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So when we bought our smallholding and the neighbours said they used to "film badgerwatch" in our orchard, I thought they meant a BBC show - have I misunderstood what she meant? ;)
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Plums, were they talking about dogs in the same context??? ;D ;D
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Womble, we had Coypu around here for years. I often caught a glimpse of them and those who knew about them kept it quiet. So much building going on now and they have disappeared :(
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A boy I fancied when I was a girl offered to take me badger watching. I thought he meant "badger watching" and was quite excited ;D Guess what! We watched badgers ::)
Fantastic!! I'd love to go badger watching, but I don't know where there are any sets locally (good job really, because much as I like them, we don't really want them here). Did you know we now have our first home-bred beaver for many years up in Argyll? Now THERE'S an innuendo if you ever wanted one! ;D
Ooooh naughty ;D ;D ha ha haSo when we bought our smallholding and the neighbours said they used to "film badgerwatch" in our orchard, I thought they meant a BBC show - have I misunderstood what she meant? ;)
;D ;D Well this guy looked a bit like the Oddie ;D
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Dear God, I'm appalled. I'm a convent girl, you know. Quite shocked. I'm giving my girls a good start in life by forcing them to watch St Trinian's, I hope some of the excellent morals and principles from this fine film will wash off on them. Dogs, badgers, beavers..... whatever next? Tut tut. Wash your mouths out, you foul beasties.
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Convent girl - they are the worst kind ;D :-*
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OK, it was my thread, so I'll digress if I want to ;D
Click if you dare! ;) www.scottishbeavers.org.uk (http://www.scottishbeavers.org.uk)
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I prefer the men in kilts site myself ;D
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Ummm, is it just me or should that read Beaver Trail rather than Beaver Trial? I haven't looked too closely, but are they trailing the beavers or trialling them?
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Oh, I see. Trialling the release. How disappointing. I thought it might be like horse trials where the beavers would have to canter around a ring and jump hurdles.
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Oh, I see. Trialling the release. How disappointing. I thought it might be like horse trials where the beavers would have to canter around a ring and jump hurdles.
;D ;D
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:o
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I thought beavers were baby boy scouts? ;D
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Oh, I see. Trialling the release. How disappointing. I thought it might be like horse trials where the beavers would have to canter around a ring and jump hurdles.
Don't be ridiculous DC.
Beavers would have to dismantle the hurdles and build a dam across the water jump, silly. ::) ;) :D
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Hmm. So they would, Sally. An excellent point, well made.
However, the beaver dam building / jump dismantling would only delay the event, but not render it a pointless exercise at all, on the contrary, people who find collies rounding up Indian Runners interesting would surely find this riveting. I shall write to my local MP immediately insisting that The West Fife Beaver Trials are instigated forthwith, and if I see children wearing blue jumpers and neckies there will be a Letter Of Complaint. Willie Rennie, watch this space.
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Will it be like the Frogging championships that Mark and Lard used to do the commentary on? If so count me in :thumbsup:
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I hadn't heard that before, just listened on youtube, and I will insist to the MP that Mark & Lard do the commentary for The West Fife Beaver Trials. The adjectives are quite magnificent.
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It's marvellous and I do hope that they can get competitors with wonderful colourful names as they had in the frogging championships. It was the highlight of my day when it was on Radio 1 years ago. Off to listen to it now :wave: