Cocci? In answer otherwise healthy hen

[Homer & Marge]

Hi all,

 

All this talk of auboise is making me hungry Just finished reading all the posts on this wonder stuff and it sounds brilliant, so we've started looking for a stockist here in Holland (Hemp, here? In Holland? No!!! ) And guess what, there is one! So when we next clean out, we'll be jumping ship..! Less flies and less smell has got to be good. Now all we need is the agri lime...

 

Greets,

 

Derren & Rachel

[The Dogmother]

I don't know what the availability of garden lime is like in Holland, but you can get it in most garden centres and hardware shops here. Make sure that you get the GARDEN variety and not the caustic one though

[Cinnamon]

A problem I have had this summer is DUST......the girls are on earth covered with bark, & as the run is covered it doesn't get any rain on it.

I have washed it all down a few times,but with it being so hot it just dries up again really quickly.

 

I guess Aubiose would be a bit less dusty for them.

Anyone got any experience of it being used in a larger covered run?

[The Dogmother]

I've got the run extension and it is partly covered. I don't have any dust with the Aubiose, just compacted earth underneath. Perhaps it's down to soil type

[Cinnamon]

Yes, we are quite "crumbly" here, not helped by the dry spell.

But the good thing is that its perfect for a dust bath

 

I think that they have been dust bathing more than usual lately,to keep cool, which is why the bark has got so very dusty.

It certainly gets kicked about - even the Eglu has a fine coating of dust, & that is up at waist height

[Laura & CTB]

CTB is very skeptical about the aubiose I've bought to go in the run, especially as it will be on concrete.

He is convinced that more than a slight breeze and it will all be out of the run and piled up against the garden fence

 

(hope he's not proved right!!)