Worming again

Just worked the chooks again. Looking at the dates, it has been a full year since I last wormed them. Despite checking their droppings carefully, I could find no sign of any worms. I measured the flubenvet out very carefully, mixing 6g with 2kg feed very carefully, so I'm confident that I got the dosage correct. I can only assume that they were worm-free which is very encouraging :)

It took some research to find a supplier. In the end, I was able to obtain flubenvet from farmandpetplace.co.uk . They were very assiduous, and phoned me before despatching as it is a medicine, to make sure that I knew how to use it and not to eat the birds during treatment. The flubenvet arrived promptly so I shall definitely use them again.

Fox Attack

I was woken up by weirdest noises at about 6:30am this morning. Looked out of window to see a dark shape leaping over one of the chicken runs. It was only partly light, and I was a bit bleary, but from my upstairs window it looked like something was really attacking the runs with the hens going mental inside. I could hear the plastic rain cover bungees pinging as the thing was tearing at it trying to get in with the chickens.

I ran downstairs and rattled at the window (the chicken runs are just outside on the patio for winter) and a Fox looked up at me from where it was worrying at the side of the ruf. It just stared at me. I rapped on the window again and eventually it ran off. 

When I subsequently went outside and checked, I could see little puncture marks in the plastic rain cover that is held over the run by bungees. 

What a shock! I'm glad the Omlet hen houses and runs are fox proof!