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Well Andy after having a few halves of Hugh F-W's nettle ale the other night, I think I could get a good few barrels of the stuff on the go lol :wink: :drunken: I could use it as payment for my friends hard work, maybe then I could rope them in with all the other big jobs that will need doing... Alc...

Oooooh cuy!

lol, no I definately couldnt eat little squinny pigs!

Weve got a little colony of them and I just couldnt do it, though the OH is always joking that they are going to end up as sunday lunch...

Me! *puts hand up*

Born and bred in Waterlooville, moved to Alton for a wee while, back to 'looville, now residing in Cowplain, digging and generally playing with mud in Catherington.

Gradually moving further north...

Since coxoid isnt ment for chickens, only pigeons, you cant get an official answer from the makers.

Ive asked the OH who is the fountain of chicken knowledge and was reliably told a week for egg withdrawal.

Hope this helps!

Wow thats amazing,you learn something new everyday!

Oooo sounds like what we've just taken on. Especially the brambles, not looking forward to hacking and hauling through them :( We beat a couple of paths through it yesterday with the trusty machetes and today it feels like my thumbs going to drop off. And we only managed about 30ft of clearance! Its...

Hallo, I'm new too!

Your place sounds great btw

Maybe if you pulled alot of it up by hand and then left it by the side of the pond, all the 'tenants' of the weed have a chance to work their way out of it and (hopefully) back into the pond. If you did this late in the day the pond life would have more of a chance to get back during the cool of the...

Haha ah well its just part of the latin name of the plant coltsfoot (tussilago farfara). Coltsfoot was the name of the road I grew up on. Tussilago is also the kennel affix for my dogs.

So there ya have it!

It depends. If yours are 'typical' laying hens and you live in an area where the fox is likely to make a day visit then go for a six foot enclosure. This should deter most foxes and keep the chooks in. You could add a mesh top too if you wanted. If foxes arnt an issue then a four footer should be ok...

Im in Cowplain, about 8miles north of Portsmouth.

You?

Hallo After years of wanting a piece of scrub to call my own I've finally tracked one down. However its about an acre of 6ft high brambles, nettles, various tumbledown flint outbuildings and its going to be a very long time before I'm planting any veg! The OH and me already keep chooks (and waaay to...