Chicken boarders

[katieD]

its finally here!

 

although the stupid courier wouldnt carry it through to my garden (too far apparently! )

 

so i now have a pile of panels on my front lawn!

 

started to carry them through but they weigh a ton! hurry up hubby- need you to put it up!

[Space Chick]

How exciting

 

Happy WIRthday

 

(can't take credit from that ANH said that to me when my WIR arrived )

 

You know we need photos too

[quickcluck]

have you called him home from work? Surely it's like a baby coming!!!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Indeed, Happy WIRthday .

 

How exciting . Where are the photos of the panels sitting in the front garden ? We need to see all the stages, you know .

 

Is hubby home yet? If not, why not ?

[katieD]

got the run together finally- after lots of swearing and glares from the hubby about why they need such a huge run

 

it looks great! i will take some pics soon- promise

 

put the eglu in for now as cant wait until the cube comes

 

im at a bit of a miss about what to do about bedding/flooring now? always planned on putting some sort of horse bedding down, but after them being in there 6 hours i cant believe the amount of poo they have generated! and ive started to think that just having the slabs down would be a benifit as i can sweep it daily and powerwash it regulary. think the woodchips must have disguised alot of poo in the eglu run

 

how often would i need to top up the horse bedding of i poo picked daily? just thinking how expensive it would be- cant really afford a bale or so a week

 

thanks for your help x

[Ain't Nobody Here]

If I were you, I'd definitely try Hemcore or Easibed. They really do absorb the poos - I only poo pick the most obvious, the rest just get dried up and disappear .

 

I only clean out my run every couple of months - it really does last that long!

 

(Also, wouldn't they be a bit bored with nothing to scratch about in ?)

[katieD]

oh that would be fine- i bed my horses on easi bed and i use 2 bales a week and it costs a bomb! every couple of months is fine! i was thinking i would need to do it every week

 

ive ordered some shallow tubtrugs that im going to fill with soil as they love their dust baths

 

thanks for your help- better get that roof on now! get to it hubby!

xx

[Falkor]

I purchased two bales of Bliss about three months ago and I am just down to half way in the second bale

 

Like ANH I poo pick the obvious ones but most of it gets dried up and absorbed into the bedding.

 

My bantams are on woodchip and I agree it does hide a lot of poo.

 

(I have to say that i prefer Aubiose but this has gone up to £9.00 a bale locally so I will be trying bedmax next at £6.50 a bale)