Pictures of archery, to do it justice, are always a bit of a procedural issue - especially if published to the web - due to safeguarding of young club members and you cant really draw a bow except at a club. I'd actually quite like some pictures of myself on the shooting line but it only happens at ...

Not pretending to be anything other than a novice with birds but have taken some pictures lately where there have been juveniles that have been an education. Anyway, looking around for resources this evening came across this: http://www.babybirdid.com/WHObabybirdID2.php?BBIntroResponse=Yes Waaggh!!!...

I don't much go in for a style of any sort really icemaiden but I suppose a leather arm guard and a Tilly hat (and toting a longbow and wooden arrows does the trick :) The long bow is great, by the way - slower than my field bow (which broke) - much more tactile and alive though. Got a clout competi...

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Ive just been to water the public tulip tree planting at the end of our street. Its been in the ground for 2 years but got off to a bad start establishing itself in the planting pit and died back so to lose its leader. Bounced back this spring and then got hit by drought conditions. 10 liters just h...

Hmmm.. They are clearly sensitive, often aggressively so, to hens of a different breed/colour. They say that chickens can remember the pecking order of 100 individuals when we would struggle to tell them apart. But did you mean siblings particularly Hen-Gen? That within a breed hatched/raised togeth...

That's really interesting (I haven't got a clue!) The familiarity and almost un-noticable pecking order that I saw between my brown hybrids I put down to familiarity right from chicks. There was, of course, no reason that they should have the same parents when drawn from a commercial batch though no...

Wild musings from me - as usual! Chickens do seem to like the highest perch available. I think this comes from their natural preference for the highest, and safest, branch of a tree that they can get to. Inside a coop there is no perspective to the ground, other than the floor of the coop, so even i...

It's similar to using geotextile under a bark mulch path. If laid flat on well prepared firm ground and kept covered it should be good for 20 years.
Sunlight degrades it if left exposed for too long.

I like this
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A proper use of technology! Actually solves a real problem, not a problem that the marketer is telling you you didn't know you had or a must have function you didn't know you wanted.
Technosceptic!