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Love the dotte - she's going to be beatiful when she grows up

Baby bunnies Free to good caring homes English x Dwarf Lop (will grow to medium size) Ready from 21st July from Grantham, Lincolnshire Contact Fiona 077790 309765

15x6 is a lovely sized run for 3 or 4 chickens and it is a good idea to have a walk in run, for cleaning and for spending time with them. Our chickens live in a converted summer house. In winter we insulated the inside with large sheets of cardboard and we have replaced the windows with polycarbonate. Our run is an odd shape but about 6 foot high and is now fully roofed, has various perches and we are in the process of adding a mezzanine level (very posh are our battery hens) as the seem to love to sit up high and the battery girls aren't very good at using the perches. We started off with the summer house, a couple of cat boxes for nesting, a shelf to store the various chicken paraphanalia and a run with a couple of logs in it for sitting on we've just added bits on over the years. We have never had a problem with red mite dispite having a felt roof and as long as the chickens have somewhere to snuggle up and arene't in a draft the cold doesn't bother them. Go on Fee - take the plunge

Some of my favourites to take to work are: Salad with mixed beans with a balsamic vinegar dressing. Salad with vege sausage and marmite croutons (well I like it ) Brown rice, courgettes and red onions with mayo What about a waldorf salad too?

We're using this. It's been fine apart from when we had a problem caller and it was rather difficult to contact aol and then get them to understand what we were talking about as those calls do go to the Indian call center.

We're just about to get our 3rd lot of rescue hens. None of ours have ever perched they all cuddled up in a nest box or cat box at night time. As exbatts generally have softer shelled eggs than "normal" chickens we crush and bake all of our egg shells to give them calcium back (you can buy special calcium supplements though) and we also always have a cabbage hanging in the run for extra vitamins and to help absorb the calcium. Sweetcorn and mealworms are our treats of choice at the moment. Our fences are only 4 foot 6 inches high and non of our hens have ever been next door - even the very good flyers that we hatched last year. Exbatts don't tend to have very strong bones so we find ours are the least likely to be found in high places. We have had 2 trips to the vet in 3 years, one hen had a chest infection that came on not long after release but it wasn’t terribly expensive, antibiotics, and a couple of injections and we currently have a hen that has reoccurring peritonitis from internally laying shell-less eggs. Our exbatt ladies are the friendliest and most companionable of all of our hens. We’ve found a huge difference between them and our other chickens, they are always available to "help" whatever you are doing and ours tend to follow us about and can be found in the kitchen sitting comfortably beside the cooker or watching tv in the lounge with our son

Wendy. I'm sure that Pudding will find a fantastic home very soon.

Thanks Madison - the book arrived this morning

Thank you Snow - my chickeny items arrived this morning and will take pride of place in my kitchen. I've also recieved my gnomes, many thanks to Helly's staff

The scary dvd arrived this morning - thank you very much katie92

My sweeties have just arrived too - another, soon to be, very happy son. Many thanks Helly

We were trying to adopt and were "quietly" informed that if we worked full time we were very unlikely to be approved by the panel. I don't know if that is the same case for fostering though

I am the proud winner of the Gnome Plant Markers Donated by Hawkins Bazaar - who do I need to contact with my details please?

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Aw that's lovely Fee Don't suppose you have any photos of your wedding day you'd like to share do you?

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I can't believe your hens like layer pellets, my lot only eat them as a last resort. We are now on a mixture of very coarse mash which they love and generous helpings of wheat both morning and night. I've never used Easibed or Hemcore I get wood shavings and shredded paper for their house free from work so will take advantage of that offer while it lasts although I've also heard that they are both very good. We've used Cider Vinegar for quite a while now, the ex-batts suffered with colds a lot when we first got them so I have just kept up the routine of adding it to their water one week in every 4. I add a garlic clove one week in every 4 too and the other 2 weeks are just plain water. The do sometimes eat the garlic though, it does whiff in the henhouse the next day How are your babies coming along, i'm so excited for you?