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missnu01, sorry to hear your suffering like you are. It is a terrible thing to have. Meds do help, I think, but speaking to people helps more I think. The problem is though, who do you speak to. I have had several shrinks and they all start off with the same thing, asking about your childhood...

Yes, that's likely the case, they do eat lots of grass and weeds. It's funny to see them when I am doing some digging, I end up with a spade full of soil with a chicken stood on top. All six have their faces to the ground right next to where I am about to dig to see who can get any worm that...

Hi, yes I am still OK, and thank you for asking. I have just been really busy, which has in itself been helpful in lifting my spirits. The weather has been rubbish here, with what looks like being the coldest March in 50 years. We are deep in snow at the moment, and the poor chooks dont like...

Quote: I don't know how, I did read an article after we had the first one (5 so far), and "2 yolks become 'backed up' in the system and end up being released at the same time and in the same egg. You can even get three or more yolks in one egg - the record is a nine-yolker". It then went on to...

Quote: The pain you must have gone through for all those year, it sounds though like you did a great job of bringing up your son considering you have suffered like you have. I too have been amazed by just how many people have suffered and continue to suffer. I have to say, I find it hard...

Well I am so happy with my chooks. Over the last week we have been getting between 5 or 6 eggs a day from the 6 of them, and some are double yolkers.They never stop eating. They eat anything that moves, and if it doesnt move, they push it till it does, so they can eat it. And I am sure they...

I have been saying this for years. Horse meat AND meats other than what you would expect have been used by most big companies for many many years, and smaller companies are even worse. In my early years I was an apprentice butcher, and I couldn’t believe what meat went into products or was being...

Thanks, it is something we are thinking about, as it would be great to have chicks running around. I thought I would show you this picture I took of them today. It was so funny, and don't worry, all that was in the bucket was cooked potato peelings and the KFC gravy. They went crazy for it...

Oh they are smart alright. I can't believe how smart they are. I really hate leaving them now. We were away for two nights and one day and were back this morning. That did the trick for Anne Frank, she was the only one who would go up the ladder to bed, but wouldnt come down on her own. So the...

Peel, and John Peel are really quite old family names, I don't know about the book by John Peel you mention, but there is a popular book out by Radio DJ John Peel, and Im thinking you may be talking about that one, although I could be wrong because like I say, it is quite a popular name. Whe...

Quote: I am sorry to hear you are going through that with your parents divorce. I try to imagine what my teenage daughters must have been going through and what they are still going through. But you know what, without doubt, your parents love you to bits and will always be there for you, just...

Hi, Im still here, just been really busy back and to doing viewings on other house, not sold yet. The ladder seems to work fine when they all go to bed at 5.15pm in single file, which is really funny. But just one of them doesnt like coming down them. She can go up no problem, but I have to...

A funny thing happened today. I phoned my eldest daughter (I phone them both on a Sunday) and she was at her boyfriends house. She is 19, and she told me today that she passed her trial period at work. I told her that I was so proud of her for getting an apprenticeship at 16 as a hairdresser...

I too agree that living in the moment sounds great, its just that at the moment I am pretty down, and I dont like living in this moment. Thats not to say that I would ever think about doing anything silly like ending it, but its just that this moment in not my best moment. I do like the idea and...

You lot are great, thanks. I will do my best to keep a clear head and not drift. We collected a load of shells and I dropped them in our little stream in a small pool. The water runs steady so by morning the shells should be salt free and I will crush them and add them to their grit hopper...

Thank you, and I truely am sorry if I am adding to anyone elses already poor mental health, I dont mean to. When I asked my doctor a week ago about the delay in getting further help, he asked me if I was Bypolar. I mean, what a thing to ask me. He really is rubbish and I once my new referal...

Well done for reading this thread, I am sure that took some doing, with me babbling on like I do. Depression is a terrible thing, and I really feel for anyone with it. The ups and downs are no fun at all. Just last night my partner and I decided to sell the house and go our seperate ways. We...

Thank you, it has taken a lot of work, and the chooks seem impressed, 4 eggs yesterday. Im glad I didnt clip their wings before I let them freerange. Yesterday I sat on my bench and called them. I make a call, dont laugh, but it goes kind of like this ((BRRR BRRR)) and kind of chicken like, and...

This one chicken is thinner than the others. The ladder is a flat board with wood screwed to it for grip, and it is all solid so nothing can fall through it. I have watched her at night as they all go up to bed, she takes the ladder really slowely, then when she is near the top, she jumps up the...

I made a 25kg mix of mealworms, sunflower seeds, other mixed seeds and corn, and I throw a scoop into the small pen in the morning when I let them in there. In the evening I do it again. They still eat their layers pellets though. There is one chook that still wont go down the ladder to the run...