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[Rudies Roost]

@Yorkshirecoop As large as my pen is, it looks smaller when all the 30 odd birds are out in it! It is absolutely soaked after all the rain we've had the last 72 hours. Cant wait for them to be able to range again, it's getting gross in their pen. Oh....I also forgot to turn the hose off whilst filling the duck's pond this morning...ooops! I was in a rush to do morning duties as I wanted to get out of the rain and on with the school run so I had an hour and a halfs worth of extra water overflowing on to already sodden ground It's only just starting to soak away now! What a numpty I am

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

I've been guilty of leaving taps on also so you are not alone!

Got a right roasting at the yard once where I keep Harry for leaving the tap on but they were on a water meter then so it was an expensive mistake, oops Never mind the flooded gate hole.

Fingers crossed for some drier weather soon I need to get the hose out in my runs as they are slopping about in wet poop right now that stinks rotten

 

[timon]

Fingers crossed for some drier weather soon I need to get the hose out in my runs as they are slopping about in wet poop right now that stinks rotten

So how do we go another 6 weeks till the end of the ban?

 

[PaulaMc]

Hi all

Back at work now after 2 months off sick with depression. Getting back in to teaching slowly so mangled poly tunnel is an ongoing process ha ha. As have mentioned, my lovely friend at work is on the case to re-establish. Hopefully can get it back up soon and get some veggies growing x

 

[rebrascora]

@PaulaMc

Well done for getting back to work. Hope it goes as smoothly as possible and everyone is supportive and the chucks don't get up to too much mischief whilst you are not there!

@timon

Is it really still another 6 weeks!! I will be bald by then (with tearing my hair out) and so will my chickens! Hopefully my poly tunnel will ease things a bit as soon as I get it finished but I'm having to spend most of my spare time trying to sort my car out as MOT is due by end of the month and I'm hitting glitch after glitch at the moment with a horn and airbag fault. Trying to save myself a couple of hundred quid by doing it myself but getting the correct part for my model is proving difficult, so lots of trawling the internet and making phone calls. Managed to save myself £75 on insurance though so that's something.
So sorry to hear about your fox attack. It's one of those things that you will almost certainly suffer at some point if you have chickens and can never be entirely safe from. I had one coming through the day, even when I was there, and snatching a chicken every other day. That was about 14 years ago when I first kept poultry. I've had a couple of attacks in the past few years but mostly when I didn't get them locked up at night in time. I'm also benefitting from a local shooting syndicate that goes out and shoots the foxes with telescopic night sights to protect their pheasants.

@Yorkshire Coop

Hi Kim

Sorry to hear you didn't make it out on Harry at the weekend, but can't criticise as I still haven't got any of mine out. Made no progress on the poly tunnel today either, as too busy trying to fix car. If I can track down the right part I can save myself a lot of money and should be able to fit it myself, but things are not going smoothly. You tube is a wonderful facility for tutorial videos on DIY repairs but things never quite come apart as easily as they do on film. Makes me think they took it apart before the video and greased everything up, put it back together and then shot the video. I don't want to see some smart arse mechanic sailing through the job, but a normal person hitting the same glitches as me and then telling me how to get around them. Spent the last 2 days trying to get a recessed bolt out of the steering column that had stripped...Arrgh!
Ian has already booked some space in my poly tunnel for grow bags and tomato plants... of course it will be me that has to feed and water them. Let's just hope the bird flu restrictions are over by the time that the tomato plants need to go in!

Think that's all my news and my midnight feast is over so it's past time for bed.
Night night

Barbara

 

[GGBEAR]

@ Yorkshire coop Aiyla is just 11 months old she says a few words like mumma dadda uh oh

she has quite a comical character cheeky but very loving ans clingy!!!!!!!
But she loves the chickens and ducks

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

@rebrascora
Oh Barbara that sounds a pain on the steering column
Wouldn't surprise if they did do that on the you tube! I watched some plumbing videos, just a plug hole replacement but mine didn't go as smoothly as the vid either. They make it all look so easy on there. Hope it's going better today both for the car and the tunnel
I'm just going to see what Mrs May has to say then I'm going to shovel wet sloppy chicken poop out of my runs! Oh what joys keeping animals brings

@GGBEAR

Can't believe Aiyla is 11 months already! It only seems two minutes ago that you were posting about being fit to burst when you were having her.
I can imagine her character just from the pics you have posted of her, she sure has an infectious smile

 

[Rudies Roost]

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@rebrascora
Oh Barbara that sounds a pain on the steering column
Wouldn't surprise if they did do that on the you tube! I watched some plumbing videos, just a plug hole replacement but mine didn't go as smoothly as the vid either. They make it all look so easy on there. Hope it's going better today both for the car and the tunnel
I'm just going to see what Mrs May has to say then I'm going to shovel wet sloppy chicken poop out of my runs! Oh what joys keeping animals brings

I too have that lovely task to deal with but I can't bring myself to do it today! My pen is starting to honk a bit too, I just wish that the birds would stop scratching around in it and sending it flying all over the place....roll on Spring...

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

I have forced myself to do it as it was really bugging me, I'm weird like that

Did some other tidying up too and found a rat hole! Bait boxes are back out and some shoved down the hole for them to feast on so fingers crossed they croak it down the hole or come out a bit wobbly so they can be shot

 

[DancingWthDucks]

I have forced myself to do it as it was really bugging me, I'm weird like that

Did some other tidying up too and found a rat hole! Bait boxes are back out and some shoved down the hole for them to feast on so fingers crossed they croak it down the hole or come out a bit wobbly so they can be shot

I've been told that blocking the holes with steal wool works well- when the rat try's to chew through, it ingests some of the steal and dies pretty quick.