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Too darn right! Fits in with the comment to my daughter this morning when we woke to realise we'd run out of heating oil overnight - "how do you think we lived before central heating?". Oh those halcyon days of the icicles dragging down the bedroom curtains and sticking your nose out of th...

I contacted Interhatch this morning, and the chap on the phone was very friendly and helpful. The Mareks vaccine costs a little over £18 + VAT at the moment. If you need it posting out, it costs another £7.00 for despatch as it has to be kept refrigerated so needs special packing. They are based in ...

Thanks Red - I never thought about the time stamp being in my profile - a long time since I looked at that part of the login. Corabella - good point. Though my initial thought is that since my neighbour keeps chickens, (though they are hybrids) would I be putting theirs at extended risk by not vacci...

Ah, someone else is up on the site in the middle of the night! What you appear to be saying backs up what she said but adds more to it. I will keep that in consideration. I'm also curious about It is inactivated rapidly when frozen and thawed. as I'm not sure entirely how to translate that. Does it ...

Hi there Corabella I'm so sorry that you've shared the same fate with your chickens. It's so disappointing, especially when you (like us) find out the hard way when setting up with chickens for the first time. my understanding is that survivors will still shed the lurgy in their dander etc.. so any ...

GOOD NEWS!!!! We culled the majority of the flock last night - which is disappointing - though I handled every single one and checked them in the best way I could with my limited knowledge before doing so. Went through all the Jersey Giants, and when it came to my single cock & hen pair for the ...

My neighbour keeps hybrid hens, no cockerels. I have L.Sussex, Derbyshire Redcaps et el, all with cockerels to breed. My neighbour constantly witters at me that I'm illegal if I sell the eggs for eating whilst ever there's cockerels running with the hens. She's a member of a Smallholders group and I...

Thomzo wrote Can you move your run to a different part of the garden? I dug out 6 inches of soil from my run before I put the new hens it. I allowed my chooks to roam over the whole of the land and only contained them in the pen when necessary, - so chances are the Mareks will be everywhere. I appre...

Thank you for your kind words. They are much appreciated. I've had an email from someone else who is a breeder in Scotland and advertises as selling the Scots Grey birds that I'd like to get my hands on. She has said that most breeders do not vaccinate, and that they certainly don't as they do not h...

Hello everyone I've been away from the forum for quite a while and I've been having problems with my flock throughout the summer. It all started when I got 5 new girls from the breeder I got my original flock from last year. The new girls were from the same batch of hatch as my original flock. I was...

Ahem, did you miss my posting then? I'm just 12 - 14 miles from Gainsborough - is that not close enough?

We are 35 miles from Nottingham centre, and would bring you 12 miles off Gainsborough, and about 24 miles south off Scunthorpe. If that's close enough for that particular leg, then we've a reasonably comfy sofa bed for a stop-over. If your legs are giving out by then, if you want to stay a couple of...

Hmmmm, mum suggested we put the 'fake' eggs in - though I considered that this might encourage them as sometimes they may get the fake and others the normal eggs? I take on board the other suggestions, and particularly like the idea of giving them pepper and chilli - strange SOH that I have .....! R...

Help please! I recently added 5 new POL to my brood. They've integrated into the main flock absolutely fine - which we considered ultra lucky with no real fighting occurring. Horrors, the little devils are breaking eggs and eating them, so I'm running up and down the garden all day trying to bring i...

You could have a whole new supplementary income idea there ..... will they be fairisle, argyle or arran? They do it for ferrets, so why not for chickens? You could have themes for halloween, christmas, and an especially large range for EASTER!

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