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:icon_smile: Looks like tasty small yellow wild plums/greengages growing abundantly in fields. I had seen a family picking these whilst eating them a couple of weeks ago - the tree had tons of yellow ripe fruit all over. I tasted one - nice and sweet but small compared to greengages, bright yellow w...

:icon_smile: Mine will have a break for two weeks - one hens starts slowing down followed by the rest but then everything is back to normal routine once they have a nice holiday. They don't lose much feather (Warren) and they are very polite huge eggs layers with no clucking - just get on and contin...

:icon_smile: I had been using them a lot as my other half butchered my 14 yrs old nice variegated leylandii. With the muddy chook area, I just lay the clippings including branches - the chooks just ignores them but it did smell lovely and fresh all the time. They will take a long time to compost if ...

Ouch - some times we have strange bedfellows :icon_smile: but mostly unwanted ones! I have a huge bucket of leftover water kefir (sweet smelling) and had trapped a hundred (give & take) wasp, now dead. There were a few huge giant wasps with huge heads too. I went past a pub, they had lured wasp ...

:silent: I applied lots of malt vinegar all over - luckily I was not pickled but smelled like one for the few days. It was really painful. I had seen my little baby chicks eating the wasp recently - severed the head first, peck the body a few times to rid the stinger and eat it followed by the head!...

:pale: Nope, the scary bit was that one of the wasp was so angry that he came back for more - but got tangled in the end of my rolled cuff/sleeve. It tried to continue stinging me through the cloth. If I were not in pain, I would have laughed as it is comical to see it's body desperately poking the ...

Greetings and I hail from Middlesex, U.K. First time here and really enjoy being in this forum. I would like to be self sufficient but there is not enough knowledge and time on my hands - I have my other half, one daughter and a collection of colourful feathered birds, chickens (plus cockerals) plus...