Hello everyone

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. I would imagine that we are now all feeling the colder temperatures - I definately am, lol. When I left the house this morning I left my better half defrosting his car with the dogs patiently (well, not really that patiently!) waiting for him to return so they could go on their walk.

If you are experiencing the cold also and would like to make sure that your chickens are in the best condition possible for the upcoming winter then it’s a good idea to start adding cut maize to your birds feed.
As it gets colder and the nights get longer then the maize can be swapped for mixed corn and the amounts can be increased. A good time to change to mixed corn in mid December. A couple of handfulls each night will work great as it will fill your birds crops overnight, helping them keep warm and also allowing them to put a bit of weight on to see them through the colder months.
Layers pellets are a brilliant source of the essential nutrients the birds need but a little helping hand over the winter really helps your birds along.

They also taste great too so your birds will be more than willing to scoff the corn put out for them

Due to customer demand we have now got chicken feed in larger feed buckets. You can still purchase the 1.5kg bags if you need a smaller bag however we now have Layers Pellets and Mixed Corn in larger quantites available. The good news is if you need larger quantites then the price comparison is in your favour!
A 7.6kg bucket of Layers Pellets is only £9.99 saving you almost a 1/3 on the price if you were to purchase 5 smaller bags. Also the buckets are of good quality and have carry handles so you can carry the food easily and also store it in sealable buckets giving the rodents a run for their money

I’m sure that we will be producing more types of chicken food in larger quantites soon, giving you a chance to stock up for less!

Like shopping on eBay? We now have added many more products to our eBay shop giving you even more options when it comes to stocking up on your favorite items, whether it be Red Mite powder, Ark Maid, Chick Brooding Equipment, or poultry health tonics, sprays and wormers. We even have the range of RCOM Incubators and our brilliant chicken houses available.

Everything in the shop is listed clearly making it easy to navigate around. We know that many of our lovely customers already purchase products through eBay so thought we should add more items to make shopping with us even easier

Well our little lady Bearded Dragon has finally decided to lay her eggs, so I was busy setting up a RCOM Juragon Rx Incubator yesterday to transfer the eggs to as soon as possible.

She is now happily basking, I would imagine she is quite pleased to be free of eggs

She has laid 21 eggs so in approximately 3 months time I will be setting up the small vivarium ready for the little beauties. Watching the Baby Bearded Dragons hatch is an amazing experience as I’m sure any Bearded Dragon keeper will tell you. We had a great success rate last year and I have one of the babies at home - “Alucard”. I just hope that I don’t succumb this time around as I know there are only so many animals my fiance can take, lol

We still have a few ex dipslay RCOM King Suro Incubators left on sale at only £159.99. These incubators have not been used as they boxes have been opened just to show visitors the set up. The incubators are in new condition, and come with the 2 year warranty that we offer.

As stated there are only a few remaining so if you are looking to get a Suro however want the best possible price, this is the answer

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 couldn’t believe that I had to scrape ice from my car windscreen this morning! As the nights are getting colder it’s a good time to advise anyone who has incubators running in an outhouse to bring them in.

We never recommend running incubators in sheds etc, however know that sometimes space is tight and it can happen. When the weather gets colder the incubators are running constantly trying to get up to temperature and when the weather is in minus figures this not only puts a strain on the incubator, but the incubators internal temperature can potentially dip also.

We recommend a spare room/bedroom as the temperature in a house is usually a lot more constant. Ideally, to get the best from your incubator, the room temperature should not dip below 15 degrees celcius.

Well our free feeder promotion has gone down a storm, however unfortunately it ended yesterday. I will check to see if we can run a similar promotion sometime in the near future and will Blog as soon as I hear if one is coming up

Due to popular demand we have now increased the sizes available for our Red Mite Powder, Ark Maid and Pro-Poultry Vits, meaning you can buy bulk without having to spend as much money! (Always a good thing in my eyes, lol).

The larger bulk order really does make a difference for example 800g of Ark Maid is £6.99, however 10 times that amount is £47.49, saving you over £20! All the new sizes available are in the Poultry Helath section of the website.

Wow, for a Limited time in October we are giving you a brilliant special offer. From the 4th October until the 18th October we are giving a free outdoor 6kg Green/White feeder worth £19.99 with every house purchase. A brilliant way to get your new chicken keeping hobby started.

The free feeder is made from robust plastic and featuers a rain hat to cover the food, which allows you to have the feeder outside and the food will not get wet in the rain.

We have a variety of other offers available also so check out our Special Offers page, with feather pecking spray, poultry wormer, Nutri-Drops, just to name a few items on offer.

If you place an order on-line or on the telephone then the feeder will automatically be added to your order, our way of thanking our loyal customers and also saying a big welcome to new customers (the free drinker offer excludes houses sold to Rep. Ireland, N. Ireland and Europe)