Well, unfortunately our Seabright offer has come to a close. So we have a new exciting offer available on our Dorking Chicken house - now only £124.99!

The Dorking house is made from 12mm thick timber - so will last. It also has a slide out tray which has a metal insert so when cleaning the bedding does not stick, making cleaning as easy as possible. The house is complete with Nest Box and Perches and is ideal for those looking to house a few chickens in their back garden or small holding.

We offer pictures and dimesnsions on the website however if you are looking for a poultry house and really don’t know what to go for then you can always give us a call and we can see if we can help you in making that important decision.

As promised I’m blogging to let you know that our fantastic free feeder offer has been extended until the end of the Month (31st October 2011). So if you purchase any chicken house between now and then you will receive a free 6kg outdoor feeder worth £19.99

I was discussing with Glyn today how to eradicate red mite on the chicken housing and he showed me a house with red mite and said he can not get rid of it. I looked at the house and it was obvious to me the problem but not to him because I personally have not shown him how to kill red mite in our housing.

Glyn has done every thing but 1 thing to kill the mite, when you have an infestion in our houses they are easy to kill but you must remember to UNSCREW the top cap, remove it, treat it and replace this. Do this 2-3 times and you will kill the mites. If you imagine the top cap is like felt and mites will breed like crazy there, so remove this and treat (at least twice in your treatment cycle) you will find your treatment works, without treating under the top cap you may find and issue with mites always comming back.

The top cap is needed to stop leaking but a wooden one is easily removed for treating where as felt is not.

In the next month or two I will start to do more videos for you and I can guarantee I will do a red mite treatment one for you.

Well the weathr over the past couple of days has changed, very much for the worse. Upon hearing the news and traffic reports as I drive home, I can tell that it has not only affected us here is the middle of Wales, it is nationwide
The birds don’t seem to mind too much though, the ones in the fields seem to locate a little sheltered spot and sit there quite happily, waiting for one of us to go to the feeders and top them up.

The one thing worthy of investment (especially in this weather) is the automatic door opener - trust me right now I would not want to be walking through the field to the large chicken house we have to shut the birds away at night, or have to do this again in the morning. The door opener is one of lifes little luxuries which, once you have, you will not know what you did without it! We have some new timers in stock now also. They are similar to the older design however are now digital so the time is displayed on the screen as well as the on-off interval.

When it gets windy and rainy then cleaning is a little more laborious also, so chicken houses which are easy to clean are always a brill idea. I suppose we are lucky here as we have a some breeding stock which are in Jersey Giants, Brahmas, Cochins and also a few Seabrights and the houses do not take too long to clean. But if you are looking at your house thinking about cleaning it in the poor weather which is bound to happen in the next few months (I know I sound depressing, and I secretly hope for an Indian Summer ) then take a look at the houses on offer and see if they could be your next chicken house.

All the Chicken Houses are now in stock. We received the Jersey Giants yesterday and the Brahmas also came in this week so they are both back available on 24hr delivery, which is brilliant news. I know that there are quite a few of our customers who were waiting for the stock to come in before placing your order, so thought that this is the best place to let you know, so you can get your new chicken house on its way.

The not-so-little Rheas are doing well . They are growing at an amazing rate and can single handidly eat a whole lettuce in about 1 minute. I give them some food and go and fetch the water and by the time I am back with them all the best bits have already been scoffed! Their wing feathers are coming on a treat and they fluff them out to try and be all big and brave - but they still come running cheaping mind, so they just look the part, lol.
If you recall a few months ago I incubated quite a bit. Well the first of the eggs from my little hens has been laid. Trevor found the egg and it was quite a distance from the chicken coop, actually near the new chicken houses which had just been delivered, so she was a little away from home! I’m sure she will get used to it all soon though, and it will become second nature to her

Firstly, can you believe it’s August already?! Soon people will be talking about that certain celebration held in December (notice I didn’t say the name…don’t want to be wishing the year away, lol).

To try and extend the Summer feeling we have a couple of top offers on for August.

Firstly the lovely little Rhode Island Red (RIR) House and Run, has come down in price to £159.99, which is, I’m sure you will agree, a brilliant price for a combined chicken house and run which features 15mm thick timber. A lot of people ask if the houses are treated at all and they are - they are treated with an oil based preservative so you don’t have to think about doing this before putting them together, making the constructon even easier. At this price it really isn’t too pricey to start out and have a couple of chickens in your back garden, and you could soon be enjoying your own fresh eggs every day.

The second offer is the P&T 48 egg incubator which is now also £159.99. This incubator offers space to incubate 48 chicken eggs, and features auto-turn, automatic temperature control and also has a built in sensor for the humidity, so it takes the guess work out of controlling the humidity. When you see that fully automatic Incubators are over double this price for the same capacity, you can see how good this offer is.

Combine these prices with the possible £150 you could win from Your Chickens Magazine - what a steal

As you are aware I have many many incubators on the go at the moment and I really want to free range the young birds when old enough to be let out however we have a fox problem, so I have after a year or two of umming and erring taken the splash - and we will soon be the proud owner of 3 llamas as chicken guards.

Hopefully Tali will take over the guard duties early on and the other two yonger boys will watch and learn as they grow.

Talisman

Peter Peter ‘pumpkin eater’

And finally Tyger

Hello peeps

Yay, our new stocks of the Large Seabright Chicken houses are in, and after seeing one constructed here I think we might actually do ourselves out of the Standard Seabright houses!!  They offer additional run space and when you are looking for something to keep the chickens in if they can’t free range then I’m sure you’ll agree, cleverly thought out run space is definatley a good idea.

My little chicks are no longer little!  They have started to venture out, enjoying the amazing weather we are having and it’s quite comical the way the venture together in their group, going so far then running back home, just in case… 

I have not yet succumbed to having chickens at home, being lucky enough to have them here at work, but I can definitely see why so many people have these brilliant additions to their family.

I think the snow may have gone to Trevor’s head a little as for our Christmas specials he has slashed the prices on chicken houses and incubators, namely the Leghorn Chicken House, RIR chicken house and Run and also on the Maru 500 Cabinet incubator.

The Leghorn House is now only £149.99, which is an amazing price.  The price only came into effect yesterday however I can tell from the orders that you like it :)  and I don’t blame you at all.  The lovely RIR house and Run is now only £169.99 and it’s the perfect chicken house for those who are more restricted on space and want a few chickens in their back garden.  Again, a brilliant and possibly unexpected present for those who know someone who has always wanted chickens but has never taken the plunge!

Now the really exciting, and slight crazy, price drop is on the Maru 500 incubators.  They have dropped a staggering £620 and for a limited time only are selling for £999.99.  This is a truly limited offer and for those who are looking at the RCom Maru 500 and wondering when to buy (bearing in mind the not-so-cheery VAT increases next year) I would say that now is the time.  We have these wonderful Incubators in stock and I think it would be lovely to know that you could kick off the new season with a new fully automated incubator.

So if your looking and thinking “do I…don’t I?” hopefully these amazing price deals will tip the balance.