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Not sure about heat mats as to my mind the heat source will be in a fixed point where the egg touches to mat.. where as a hen or incubator heat the whole egg?

Ok.. so, let me say, im 25, just left the army 2 yrs ago. SO, i live in my friends house as i ant afford my own place, (council wont help me cos im a dog owner) so im here while shes in the army, i dont pay any bills, just the eletric. i dont have a Job(im looking) i closed my own pet shop, as i go...

gosh this appeals to me.... if only it was in the UK

Mick

Big Al - I fell off the bangwaggon.. so now back.. Have been on course for the last week now - no sugar, no white flour, no spuds, no tea. Going well as lost 5lbs in the two weeks to date. Current weight is 17st 5lbs. Targe of 13s 6lbs by mid winter (Dec 21st 2011).. a goal I really want to work to....

River Cottage Meat Book shows the process of dispacting a bird and dressing it up for the table as per say.

have marked all those with something inside them last night with an x on it :D - so will check them again at day 15 come wednesday/thursday to see how things are going (will leave the "empty" ones in too and like you lot saying you never know) I am hoping for no "screammed" yolks...

dark shadow on welsummer eggs is now 80% of the egg. Some eggs are sooooo dark I can't see anything! and I got a high Dest egg candler!!!

Still out of the 24 in the incudbator.. 15 have something inside it :)

Right need some advice, its coming up to 10day candle this evening - I did a quick candle on 3-4 eggs out of the 24 2 days ago and I know I got some chicks coming :claphigh: (as I can see the big spot with veins coming all over the place - thats the buff's eggs which are light brown and easy to see)...

Hello there fellow yellowbelly

hehe.. thanks :) Today for about an hour we (uncle popped down) decided to sink a "hole" down into one of the beds (one nearest to the coop) to find water so I can install a waterbutt well in. As where these plots are we have no running water at all and 3/4 weeks of no rain the ground is d...

I found this out too, chicken wire - cr*p - mine also lasted a year before it started to rust away too. - that horrid brown colour

This time for their new enclosure I invested in new steel welded stuff that is not galvanised at all

Wow, looks fantastic - I think I managed to count 15 raised beds, really like the wee mini greenhouse / cloche /cold frame you've got on one of them! I'm into year 4 of my garden this year so hoping it really starts to take off too. lol - it came to 23 beds in all now its done. Have planted out my ...

Snap... same problem here - so what I did was popped to the local garden centre. Got 2.5m of 1 1/2" Black pond piping. Made a slit on one side of the pipe and then slide it over the gutter exit (and cable tie it in place). Tested with a watering can and works well and draining into a IBC tank.

Hard to believe that its year 3 now (well second proper full year on allotments). Yr2 I invested in a Mantis Tiller and Year 1 was the caravan [shed]. Yr3 has been the most expensive for me: New Beds gone,in, brand new chicken coop/run and alot of "hard" work going in... http://i204.photob...

can we have some here please - in this part of Lincolnshire we ain't had any rain since Jan - and my soil is starting to look like a beach lol.