[Ice]

When I saw the price of the antiseptic spray for poultry I was spitting feathers, not growing them.

[Flowerpower136]

Have you started growing feathers yet, Flowerpower?

Not last time I checked ........legs are bit scaly looking though

[poultrygeist]

Everything's pricey. Sadly, stuff like diatom weighs lots and costs a lot of postage so it's sometimes a toss up between a bit of petrol+high price tag or >£10 postage.

Rob

[lightyears]

Grit, as said. Poultry grit has oyster shell and/or limestone chippings in for calcium. Most important 
Something to prevent redmite. Diatom if you can get it or Red Mite Powder.
Apple Cider Vinegar from a horsey/chickeny place. Plastic drinker only.
Possibly Poultry Shield to clean out with. And/or Stalosan for disinfecting coop and run.
Errrrmmmm.

Rob

sorry to hijack ice's thread, but why plastic drinkers only? i was curious about this one. do the metal ones leach metal poison or something?

[poultrygeist]

The apple cider vinegar corrodes them.

Rob

[smileysal]

So come on then Ice, how are the girls getting om=n? Settling in ok?? Got any piccies to show us yet??? 

[iwantanallotment]

The pics are in Chicken Chat, smileysal 

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=43816.0

[Roughlee Handled]

So come on then Ice, how are the girls getting om=n? Settling in ok?? Got any piccies to show us yet??? 

Here they are
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=43816.0

[oddpaws]

Dont forget a boiling kettle some sarnies and a nice comfy seat...for you not the chooks! Well you will be spending hours watching them so you may as well be comfy
Good luck with them!

[iwantanallotment]

Dont forget a boiling kettle some sarnies and a nice comfy seat...for you not the chooks!

That's true actually, oddpaws!
I have a chair in my chicken enclosure and sit for hours drinking tea & watching them.

Got a feeling Ice will be exactly the same 

[Ice]

I don't have a chair in there but I do sit outside and watch them.  I even worry about them when I go shopping.

[Roughlee Handled]

Shopping for the dimonti comb crown for your chicken. You blinging your birds?
Take them with you. Sarah can help you with the design of the lead as she is the eggspert on poultry leads and leading devices.

[Ice]

Of course, and I fill their water dispensers with Evian.

[CattinJ]

A sense of humour - chickens are funny!

Oh and I got so paranoid abt something attacking them at night (am new to this chicken keeping lark too) I had to buy ear plugs as I kept leaping out of bed every time I heard a noise in the garden!!

[Ice]

They certainly are funny.   

Brother said one of them is making laying noises, so fingers crossed.  She is more developed than the other two with a red comb and wattles.  The others don't have them yet.  Is she in for a surprise.