Mrs B's Wild Chicks

[Mrs B]

Today I have ordered the pellets with flubenvet ready added so I expect thaat will be delivered Friday or Saturday. I always buy the fubbed pellets from farmandpetplace as their postage charge is reasonable plus delivery is prompt and the customer service is good. While placing the order my hand slipped and I accidentally ordered a purple broom and a purple bucket .

Tomorrow I shall pop into a pet store and get some flea treatment, what a lovely weekend my girls have to look forward to A few of my girls are tame but refuse to be handled so I shall do a full report of the delousing operation.

Oh almost forgot a lovely green egg in the nest box today so Puddleduck has come back into lay, just need her to give a few others a good talking to now.

[aishakali]

Purple broom and bucket...lovely...Mine would end up mud coloured very quickly

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KarenBodie is named after my sister who mutters all the time and is a nightmare for time keeping and a thoroughly disorganised person, KB the chicken constantly mutters and gets under my feet.

love it !

[aceface]

Mrs B what a lovely clean Walk-in-Run you have ,and the girls will be lovley and deloused no doubt when the package arrives ,complete with purple bucket i am now going to look for a pink bucket for my girls as i have bucket envy i may also order a pink dustpan and brush although Frankiimay not be too pleased with the amount of pinkness around him,but never mind who ever took any notice of a bloke anyway

[sandy]

Mrs B I have got my pellets from Vale Gardens as everytime I tried to order marriages they wanted to charge me over £60 p and p! Do you not use frontline for fleas?

[Mrs B]

Mrs B I have got my pellets from Vale Gardens as everytime I tried to order marriages they wanted to charge me over £60 p and p! Do you not use frontline for fleas?

I paid just under £3 delivery for pellets, broom bucket and another item which is very good IMO.

Yes I use frontline although with 12 to treat I am tempted to get a cheaper brand.

Going to try and upload some pics of the run so you can see how grubby it is, and it needs repainting but far too wet for that caper.

Wild Chicks had a really good romp around the garden today making the bus passengers laugh when all 12 poured over the wall at once.

[Mrs B]

Here you go pics of a grubby run






This is a pic from summer with a few of the girls on their wall

[sandy]

Love the picture of them on the wall Have they got their own safe deposit box in their run for their mealworms?

[Mrs B]

lol Sandy that is one of the treadle feeders, they make my life so much easier

[julieann]

I do love the picture of them on the wall

[Mrs B]

Today is worming (piece of cake just given the flock medicated pellets) and flea treating. Beerless is being roped in to help as some of the flock hate being handled so may need a hand catching some.

I shall update later on with how it went .... possibly from A&E if Beerless tries to catch Daisy.

Oh and remember I treated the flock to a new purple broom? Well it arrived and it is huge, that is what happens when you buy things from the horsey section of a website, still at least sweeping the run will be take half the time now.

Wish me luck Laners

[MissEllie]

Good luck Mrs B
I'm another big fan of the treated pellets

[Mrs B]

Thanks Ellie

[Annie]

I have got my bag of flub pellets at the ready too Mrs B , just waiting for the ordinary pellets to be used up 1st

[Mrs B]

Flea drops a step-by-step guide.

First gather up pipettes and don scruffiest garden clothes shout for Beerless don wellies and head for garden, after 10 minutes return to house to locate Beerless who stopped at the garage for a faff with a bike. Escort him physically down to garden, load him up with jotter and some equipment and enter run. Leave run to collect up all the items that Beerless dropped on his way in.

Finally we are in the run with all chickens, the plan is that I grab a chicken, Beerless hands me the meds and checks them off on the jotter as each one is done.

Weedol, Mogwai, Henrietta and Duchess first easy peazy chicken squeezy. Then I decide to go for the little madams next, after a great aerobics workout I finally capture Daisy who once captured is a little . Puddleduck gives me another run around bend and lunge and stretch and dive then she decides eating the jotter would be an excellent idea. Once she is done the rest are easily captured and treated.

Finally 12 chickens, Beerless and myself are flea free. Woohoo time for glass of wine to celebrate and Beerless can have some lager.