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Suze
Number of posts: 784
Age: 37
Location: Fife
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 | | Subject: Re: Chickens Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:08 pm | |
| Thanks Debbie... I looked for ex-battery hens but i gave up couldn't find anything now i know where to go... |
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Sandra
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Number of posts: 18595
Age: 48
Location: Ammanford
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Registration date: 2008-12-28
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:07 am | |
| Thanks girls for your input  Just wondering how often you clean them out? and does it get really eucky from their poop  3 shouldn't be to bad should it? The house behind us has chickens and a cock their place looks a bit messy, but I would say they have about 8 or maybe more and rabbits running around the garden and a few ducks All very helpful info you posted  |
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Suze
Number of posts: 784
Age: 37
Location: Fife
Rep: 7
Points: 1705
Registration date: 2009-11-01
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:35 am | |
| I clean poop out every morning when i collect my eggs. Then once a week i give it a good gut and a clean with cleaner....
Great thing about chicken poop is its fab for compost heaps...
I use wood shavings and throw it all in my brown bin or my compost heap... |
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Sandra
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Number of posts: 18595
Age: 48
Location: Ammanford
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Registration date: 2008-12-28
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:05 am | |
| Once a week for a big clean is good and poop top and tail every morning sounds easy enough. What cleaner do you use Suze? |
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fredsmum
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Age: 37
Location: posh part of derby
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Registration date: 2008-12-28
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:21 am | |
| this is all very interesting stuff :san50: _________________   ~The dog is a gentleman! I hope to go to his heaven, not man's~ |
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debbie
Number of posts: 243
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Points: 1126
Registration date: 2009-10-23
| | Subject: ckns Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:35 pm | |
| they can certainly turn your garden into a mess,but if you fence an area off its not so bad,if you clean them out every day they dont smell n its only a five minute job,but if you leave them there poop does smell,we clear out about every4months,depends on egg production?the next1 will be prob april or may because if you take them out in the winter months they will die coz not used to the cold,we have to buy them off the farmer, n we sell them for 2pounds each,they are usually 14months old and they are normally rhode island reds |
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Suze
Number of posts: 784
Age: 37
Location: Fife
Rep: 7
Points: 1705
Registration date: 2009-11-01
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:14 pm | |
| I just use Zoflora and make sure i wash it well and let it completely dry before letting them back in to the run...
That or the animal health bubble gum stuff..................it smells good enough to drink... i ran out ages ago though and ive ot got around to replacing it... |
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liverbird
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Location: posh part of scouseland :)
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Registration date: 2009-01-08
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:21 pm | |
| sage and onion stuffing  yummy i love chicken _________________  "My sunshine doesn't come from the skies, it comes from the love in my dogs eyes."  R.I.P Scouse xx Saffron xx and Roxanne xx I will Never Walk Alone..Still Miss you all. I am a Volunteer for UK-German Shepherd Rescue.http://www.ukgermanshepherdrescue.co.uk/ |
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SUMMER
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Number of posts: 6612
Age: 55
Location: Fife Scotland
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Registration date: 2009-01-13
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:22 pm | |
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Suze
Number of posts: 784
Age: 37
Location: Fife
Rep: 7
Points: 1705
Registration date: 2009-11-01
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:35 pm | |
| We can't agree on which one to eat so they are all still here.. I want to eat blondie but erin wont let me. Its funny every time we have chicken the kids ask if its one of ours.... lol |
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liverbird
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Number of posts: 15510
Age: 55
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| | Subject: Re: Chickens Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:38 pm | |
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fredsmum
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Suze
Number of posts: 784
Age: 37
Location: Fife
Rep: 7
Points: 1705
Registration date: 2009-11-01
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:37 am | |
| Their no pets their xmas dinner....... |
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Sandra
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Number of posts: 18595
Age: 48
Location: Ammanford
Rep: 22
Points: 16491
Registration date: 2008-12-28
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:36 pm | |
|  poor mites  Mine will die here we will grow old together  |
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Steffie
Number of posts: 1049
Age: 25
Location: Kent
Rep: 4
Points: 2199
Registration date: 2009-06-16
| | Subject: Re: Chickens Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:25 am | |
| My mum might be having about 5 chickens delivered on saturday  She wanted to get them last year and even got a fenced off area and hutch thing ready but never got round to actaully getting them, but apparantly a friend of a friend has died so his chickens need a home and mum was more than happy to say yes. Only problem i dont like birds and guess who will be looking after them nearly every weekend over the summer when mum and dad are away.  Im worried about what Viva will be like with them, they will be fenced off but knowing Viva she'll find a way to get them  |
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