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This year, I've decided to have a go at making wine from my fruit glut! plum wine has been started, and is bubbling away (very!) merrily, and I'm hoping to do an apple wine too. Shame you have to wait so long to taste the results, but fingers crossed! I've always wanted to try wine making! But...

Every year, the village has a Festival of Food. I've never gone, until this year. This year, I was determined to go. So yesterday morning (when the sun was shining, it was a lovely day.) I walked to the village. From home, to where the festival site was would I suppose be around 4 1/2 to 5km...

I've always had an interest (of necessity! :roll: :mrgreen: ) in living simple living, and trying always to live well with less. Actually, I've come to think that the less you can live with, the better you can live, if you follow. My late husband, in his head, felt the same, but definitely...

My new girls, when I got them just over a week ago, I had assumed were on pellets. TBH, over all the years I've got pullets from the su pplier, they've always been on pellets, so it never occurred to me to ask. However, after a few days, I noticed that the feed wasn't disappearing, and the hens...

Was hoping to show you the new girls out in their run. But we're having a storm here, with howling wind and an orange rainfall warning in place, for the next couple of days.So, here they are, just after they arrived, exploring their house. The hens are out, but they're hiding under the...

Seems everyone is busy, the forum is gone quiet! I've been running around like a headless youknowwhat! (shh! Don't want to frighten the feathered ones!) :D Dau & Son in law have finally moved into their new house! Yay! But, oh, dear! The moving process! :shock: They had bought a tiny 2 bed...

I'm down to four hens with this batch, and, at over two years old (they're brown girls), laying is getting a bit hit and miss. Getting an average of two eggs a day from the four, which is good, for their age, and considering they have been laying non stop. They've been an excellent batch (five...

One of my remaining four hens looked slightly "off" last evening, but nothing I could put my finger on. She appeared to be eating ok at bedtime. There was just something about her that drew my eye, but I couldn't say what! I put a strong dose of oregano oil in the water and decided to give her...

Last night, I thought I'd have a quick peep at Poultrykeeper before I went to bed. Rather than start up the laptop, I tried to log in through the browser on my phone, but I couldn't. I didn't get any "incorrect password" message or anything - I just couldn't log in, and could only browse around...

I've been sorting through a basket of photos that has sat on my kitchen floor for several years, and I'm putting them in albums. I've come across some wonderful ones, including one taken in 1999, about two weeks before my dad was diagnosed with leukaemia. He's standing at their front door with...

Seems like one of my girls just went to sleep, all cosy and tucked up in the "nest" she made for herself every night, on the floor in a corner of the henhouse (she took to floor sleeping during the heatwave, away from the others, and never broke the habit) and just never woke up. She was fine...

We had a lovely Recipes thread on pp forum, so I thought one on here would be good to have. I'm about to make this Relish for Christmas. It will keep several weeks, especially if you seal it in jars with vacuum lids. Spiced Cranberry & Orange Relish 340g cranberries (fresh or frozen) Large...

Gosh, isn't it hard to believe that only a couple of months ago, we were so desperate for rain?? :D :D Talk about a feast or a famine! We've had some quite stormy conditions here, and lakes ful of rain falling! The place is awash! One of my water barrells (an old one which has a slight leak...

Came across this online, if anyone has had poultry or other animals stolen. Might be worth a look. http://woldsweekly.co.uk/2018/10/police-locate-four-hundred-stolen-animals-in-north-yorkshire/

We got hit by Storm Callum on Friday night, but I see on the news that, although the West of Ireland got the worst of it here, it still wasn't nearly as badly hit as parts of the UK were when it reached you! Hope everyone on poultrykeeper is ok, and that no one has suffered too much damage. xx

And I've no idea why that posted twice! Consider yourself doubly welcomed to the forum! :D :D

Morning, MrsNuts! Welcome. It's early morning here now, and I suppose you are going to bed soon!

I've left my bike in for an overhaul. It's only about 4 years old, but has been sitting in a damp shed for most of that! I originally bought it for cycling to the village, thinking I wouldn't want to get the car out and drive to town if all I needed, say, was milk. The village is only about 2...

They have been together since they were tiny. Atticus is about four weeks older. He was in the vets (they have an in house rescue) looking for a home, and I was looking at him and had decided to take him, when a woman brought Toria in. She had been found in a garden, tiny, alone and extremely...

Going to try and upload a photo. Haven't quite figured out how to do it yet, but we'll see! This (hopefully) is Atticus (the tabby tom) and Toria (the tortie), both rescues, and both classed as "special needs" and so indoor only (that was not the plan when I got them! It was assumed they would...