Aubichick, hatchling of Aubiose.....

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Has anybody else discovered this marvellous bedding? Tried to order Aubiose online, and this came up, "in for a penny" as they say.................

What an absolute delight soft, absorbent - unlike its mummy, and nice to handle.

Sorry, folks but I have never found Aubiose particularly absorbent, just a good bedding and good in nest boxes. As it is specifically for horses it must be absorbent I suppose.

Sun is shining here, Spring is sprung I suspect if only for a few hours, but the sunshine is lovely. Waiting for a call from Currys who are delivering a new washing machine.
 
What is it like for dustiness Val?. I looked it up and it says it is chopped finer and I find normal aubiose dusty enough as it is.
 
Hello Dino,

I do not think it is any dustier than Aubiose, just softer, smaller, pleasanter to handle, I really like it more than the big A, chickens do get a rough deal
when it comes to bedding for them, don't they?

I've tried just about everything on the market, and apart from Aubiose, do not really like any of them, chopped straw, woodchips, wood shavings, etc., but I do like both big A, and even better, small A.

I actually found a slither of Aubiose about an inch long, embedded in the foot of one of my hens when looking at her feet, (as you do) felt something and managed to get it out with tweezers. It was in the foot of of one of my Anconas, who are very busy hens, I did wonder what else I would find!

Hope all well with you, I do miss the chat on the forum and wondered if it was coming to a grinding halt. Even though the girls
are still in lock down, I still spoil mine silly and am lucky to be able to see them from the house, to entertain me of course!
 
I think all forums are seeing a decline in activity, people all seem to do Facebook and other social media nowadays. The same thing is happening on Practical Poultry forum, which used to be huge. A few years ago, in Spring especially, we used to get many questions from people newly setting up with their first chickens, and there aren't so many of these now. Also I think on here we are to some extent a subset of the interactivity Tim promotes on the main Poultrykeeper website, which he puts a lot of time and effort into developing. I know he's been wondering whether it was worthwhile keeping the forum going because of the high cost of hosting the server in relation to the amount of traffic on it, so keep posting, folks!
At least lately we're not getting posts from you about the latest fox outrage, Val. Did you have any more trouble after last year's fox was shot? I hope not.
 
Marigold,

There is a fox around, but a strictly night time predator I think, not one that comes to dine on my sandwich, or snatch a chicken a few feet from me.

keeping my finger crossed that long may it remain so.
 
Keeping on keeping on Val, thanks for asking, hope you are well. I'm constantly spearing my own feet on bits of aubiose, normally I realise I have a bit in my welly half way up to the chickens on a rainy windy day when I can't do anything about it.

Our leghorn crossbreed has gone broody again, we have chickens laying all over the place (including down the side of the compost heap) so it's a daily egg hunt and one of our Silver Sussex has been hovering at deaths door for over a week but hasn't walked through it yet. The Thuringians are still doing the 100m dash to meet us every day and follow us around like puppies wherever we go out of pure curiosity. In future I think they will be the breed we concentrate on. It's so nice to see all the birds out of their runs again and foraging, they're so much happier than they were cooped up. Mind you they were kept in yesterday as I spent an age mowing the grass, one big downside of not having the Alpacas.

I think Avian flu combined with people feeling the pinch has seriously reduced the amount of people taking up chicken keeping. When I go into Wycombe it's like a ghost town more often than not and it's meant to be the centre for an affluent area. You also aren't getting the same sort of lifestyle programs that Fearnley Whittingstall and Jamie Olivers mate did which promoted chicken keeping so that is probably a factor given how faddy people are. Without new keepers there isn't really going to be that much activity as experienced keepers tend to already know the answers to the questions or at least know where to find them. It's a shame though, this is one of the more sensible forums out there, some of them are full of idiots getting advice from even bigger idiots.
 
Well I don't post very often as I no longer have chooks as I travel too much, but one day I hope to go back to the hobby, I do miss my birds :D I will make more of an effort in future, it would be a shame if the forum folded. I really dislike some of the Facebook pages, I often cringe on the odd occasion I browse, social media can bring out the worst in people, and/or posts are extremely superficial.

aAnyway, I am interested to hear about this new bedding, i wasn't aware of it. I used to use aubiose and found it perfectly good, although rather coincidentally I tipped a box of it down my wellies last weekend (as you do!) and it was very sharp, so I can see it might get stuck in a bird's foot. Having kept orpingtons, a bird not known for its activity, it wasn't an issue :D

Nice to hear about the thuringians as well, I still harbour designs on them!
 
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