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    RED MITE, THE ONLY WAY!

    I decided to try persistently using a blow torch every morning on the perch ends and under the roofing ridge were i saw the most evidence of red mites. Fry! you evil swine's, fry! harr har. dedication to a task always pays off, i told myself... Dam persistent things either had fireproof jackets...
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    How to stop hens sleeping in nest box

    Personally I find lobbing a hand grenade in 5 mins after they roost is the only true way to stop them. I did try super gluing them to their perches just before bed time but i managed to get myself stuck as well and had to spend a very uncomfortable night in the chicken shed until my wife...
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    Sudden Chicken Death Syndrome?

    yeah i remember that happing to our little bantam that we all love ( always the nicest one it gets) just dropped dead one night, worst of all when we decided to have a funeral with all my kids and cremate her on a bonfire My dad popped round cos he said he could smell the barbique from his house...
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    Surrogate Broody hen failed to hatch any bought fertilised eggs

    Our poor broody hen story with a happy ending. We felt so sad for our hybrid hen no 3 of 4 as she was always going broody and we had to keep taking her out of the coop for almost a week at a time to get her of broodiness. really felt sorry for her and decided that we would get so fertilized eggs...
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