Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Chicken House Bedding - best and worst
What is the best material for chicken house bedding? A very common question.
We recommend a product called easibed for chicken house bedding as it is super asorbant, smells nice and chickens love to turn it over. It is clean and free from dust and light making house cleaning so easy.
I will add a link as […]
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
P&T Poultry - The Experts
Thank you all for your emails about the blog they are appreciated, although I do believe you can add comments here if it is easier for you. I am glad we are helping.
It has come to my attention we are experts thank you but we are not, we have experience in our field but please […]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Spring Time
Wow here we go chicks running everywhere again, I am afraid due to time pressures this year our chicks are naturally reared. Acres of grass seem to be growing again, glad it is lighter and lighter I need it :). The good news my brother will be taking over breeding for me from 2009 so we […]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
RCOM Bird Pavilion
The ultimate bird brooder is here and we have distribution rights :0) the RCOM Bird Pavilion like other RCOM incubators is trully leaps and bounds ahead of others in the market. The Bird Pavilion has full humidity and temperature control, it also has a dimmer light so night can come slowly with no panacking in […]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
RCOM Incubators 2008 models
From the 25th April 2008 the new range of rcom incubators will be back in stock. These are the incubators with the new humidity system. We will also be getting new stock of the RCOM Pet pavilion and RCOM Bird Pavilion range.
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
No More Felt Roofs Please
Of course we make money selling red mite sprays and powders but we prefer healthy chickens for our customers. Red Mite will live and breed under felt and you will never be able to kill them off, you will spend £10’s to £100’s on treatments that will never kill the safe eggs under the felt […]
No Comments » - Posted in Chicken Health, Chicken Housing, red mite control by trevor
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Chicken Wormer Parastie Control
Chickens do need to be wormed on a regular basis. I am saddened to hear recently of chickens dying from worms and secondary infections. Treating your birds every 3 to 6 months will be ideal and hopefully keep them heatly pets and good egg layers, not worming your chickens may and often does lead to […]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I am new to keeping chickens what is the best breed to choose?
Easy - Light Sussex Chickens :)
They are pretty birds and very calm, they are an old English breed, they lay lots of eggs and of course they are very very hardy chickens.
They are very pretty birds with a white body with black tail, black necks trully stunning birds running around the garden but for novices they […]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
How do control Red Mite?
If you have a chicken house with felt on the roof and are struggling with red mite, please please get rid of the felt, mite will live under there and you can not get to them. If you have felt roofing strip it off and try a product called onduline similar to corragated sheeting. Now […]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
RCOM or Octagon 20
I am biased so please try to balance my comments:-
Both Brinsea and RCOM have upgraded their incubators this year, both are supposed to be improvements :-
Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance, the new octagon 20 incubator. This has been rebuilt with a new heating system and therefore easier to see inside the incubator, also with a new […]
