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I home ed my two 5 and 3 bit of an old thread but I've not been on for a while :)

do you use that works?
We have used Barrier organic powder for red mite and saw that they do a louse one as well, anyone recommend it?

After hours of googling and probably searching for the wrong thing it looks like chicken lice
I've never had chickens with lice before, not sure if she'll make it through the night she's looking very poorly.

When they start pulling at the tabs on the velcro/aplix ones add a nippa :)

She's been a bit 'off' for a couple of days, now this morning her comb is a bit floppy with dark patches on it. I had a quick look at her and the only thing I can see is that she has some grey balls clumped together at the base of the feathers (six ish) near the vent. I've googled and TBH am just mo...

We're just thinking about doing this with my almost 4 year old, not brave enough yet though, will watch thread for good tips!

It's definately variety, the spuds we planted this year (name escapes me) are rubbish for roasties

That looks brilliant, we're hoping to do something similar for next year.

I shall have to ask them what theirs are, we always seem to get it!

Hi, we're also in Cornwall :)

Looks good :)

Brilliant, we need something like that the flies are driving me crazy.

I think we've got it on ours but the neighbours don't have it on theirs ?

I've got a Jacob and Blue Faced Leicester to do :) Once people know you'll take them they seem to appear :) Which is OK by me! Just got to practice the spinning.

When we wanted to change to a smaller breed than our Wiltshires, we went through a similar process, including the gulp at some of the prices for breeds like the Ousssants. We eventually selected Shetlands - reasonable price, friendly, easy lamb and easy to bucket train. If you would like to come an...