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A big well done to Darren i hope some youngster takes him up on his offer

I made mine 4ft x4ft and 1ft deep put 6ins of cardboard in them ,and filled them with soil, i just topped them up with compost /grass cuttings over the next two years, and now i have 12ins of great topsoil.

SUPER PICTURES !!!!! i love a good dog and a wee ferret in my pocket, the best recipe for a wee walk on a morning.

Can you not find any mates that can lay there hands on the big plastic water bottles (about 5 gallon )? the ones that fit on the drinkers . thats what i use .

Hi , i once bought 12 ducks 4 weeks old my idea was to fatten them for the freezer, i started feeding them bruised barley as i had plenty feed for my pig everything was fine until an"expert" told me to soak the barley for 24hrs i did this and after a couple of days i noticed the ducks were...

The big problem now would be trying to get people to do the hard graft, walking behind a pair of horse turning over the new sod , ahh ! sounds great , but the reality is that it is hard graft, 11miles a day, with your back bent, trying to coax, threaten, cajole, two horses to work as one unit, tryin...

Plenty food for thought ,will give things a try,it seems a shame to rear them to now and not get the beifits .

Thanks for the help ,i'll try and see what i can do to darken the nest box , if they had been using the nest box i had thought on making a sloped bottom /roll away , but that means i cant put shavings/hay in the bottom, diet? i think they are well fed ,wheat,layers pellets,rolled oats, + a handfull ...

I have 3 bantam pullets, who have just started to lay , they are kept in a run 6ft x4ft with a 4ft by 2ft6ins house with a nest box on the side ,they only used the nest box once despite me leaving dummy eggs in the nest box , now as i guessed they have started eating the eggs ,despite my best effort...

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How long do these burn, though? I would think that a paper log would burn down to ash much quicker than a wood log. I guess if you have enough supplies, you could make plenty of logs, but it seems like you'd be doing a lot of work to keep your fire going. Or am I just missing something? you are cor...

i bought mine on e-bay, i also use 1pint milk cartons with the top cut of and a couple of slots cut in it to let the water squeeze out , i use a g cramp to squeeze them , the more you can squeeze them the better they are , a wee tip is when you are soaking the paper which i do in a fifty gallon drum...

as commercial egg producers certainly use artificial light They most certainly do - that's the only way to continue to supply stores throughout the winter. A former colleague once worked for an egg producer and he was tasked with altering lighting and feeding systems to kid the hens on that there w...

All this talk of flying tunnels is unnerving me!!!! LOL
Whereabouts are you?......we are near Markinch. :)[/quote]

Aye but where is the tunnel ???

I'm getting 3 bantam pullets on monday, 2 wyndotes and a frizzel x 10 weeks old, so i am looking forward to some fresh eggs next year.