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Where are you all? Tigger would like everyone to know that today she laid the most beautiful pale blue egg the world has ever seen (in her opinion at least)!!! Mind you, she said the same thing yesterday and the day before... 😉

I inherited some "real" creosote when we moved here, but couldn't buy any more when it ran out. But the Total Mite Kill works really well & smells much better too!!

Hi Touchstone. No, I've never heard of it, sorry. I've had excellent results from "Total Mite Kill" from Nettex https://www.nettexpoultry.com/products/mite-and-pest-control/total-mite-kill-ready-to-use-spray/ . I was sold my first (wooden tongue & groove) coop, 2nd hand, by a local poultry...

Oregano has got to be far better for them than nicotine!!! Clever chooks 😄

I bought my first coop second hand and it was riddled with red mite. I used an entire spray bottle of "Total Mite Kill", a pink opaque spray, on every surface & then left it to air for a couple of weeks before I collected my first flock of ex-batts. We didn't have any problem with red mite.

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I avoid using any herbicides or pesticides in the garden, because I never know what the girls will get their beaks into...

Surely a spray of 30% nicotine would kill the chickens, never mind the lice??? I suggest putting an FFP3 mask or respirator on yourself & dusting each hen with diatomaceous earth powder. Puff it under each wing, around the vent and under the hackle feathers. You can also make up a slurry of...

Hi Brewster. I've found the quail thread. So what do you feed your quail? Icemaiden

I think Josh has had to clamp down on the joining process because we've had a flurry of people/ bots signing up lately with nefarious intent. I missed a lot of them as I was away on holiday but I did see a few emails from a new member with an interest in the wrong kind of birds- call girls in...

Me neither. I loathe Facebook. On here you can choose what to read & you don't get shown some things 5 times & other stuff not at all. I'm from East Kent by the way, not far from Canterbury. Welcome 😃

Thanks Josh. Happily I was on holiday dealing with an invasion of horseflies instead. I've come home to find that my Cream Legbar hybrid has gone broody. What were the chances of that???

Oh, and provided that your coop is in a fox-proof run, there's no harm in having an automatic pop-hole opener to let them out into the run in the mornings. It'll only take a few evenings of training before they learn to put themselves to bed before the door closes again.

Hi Marius. If your flock are to free range, you or another responsible person need to be there while they're out, to defend them from predators. When I first started researching, as you're wisely doing, I mentioned on this forum that I planned to adopt some ex-battery hens. The last thing that I...

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