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a point to be aware of when keeping chickens with turkeys is blackhead. It's a protozoan parasite of both. Chickens are fairly resistant to it, the turkeys are much more susceptible. If you worm your flock regularly you can keep a check on it though and it shouldn't cause you any problems. link here...

I add cider apple vinager at 2% solution every other week as a general tonic. I found that it removes the galvanised coating quite quickly.

The only down side to glavanised drinkers is, if you intend to use Cider Apple Vinager as a vitamin/mineral suppliment it corrodes the metal drinkers.

I wouldn't let the threat of potential avain flu put me off keeping chickens. It was a media frenzy on slow news days last winter, but it all came to nothing. If you do decide to keep your own birds however make plans to have covered runs and some basic biosecurity measures as required by DEFRA shou...

I always liked Rogers Mushrooms for trying to identify anything I found while 'shrooming - and now it's free to access. If anything it offers to many choices

Thanks for the welcomes. Today has been a good day, the chickens I picked up at the weekend have laid for the first time and the eggs in the incubator have started to hatch :cheers: It's definitely a good day here's the latest picture of my Brahma chick http://www.randoms-lair.co.uk/netpics/Brahma-5...

Hello, Newbie here.
Just moved from the UK to a 2 hectare smallholding in Skäne, Southern Sweden. The dream has become reality.