doesn't happen, plenty of room, it works, can't say I have had an incident of poop in the feeder, mind you there is enough room between the feeder and the perch, hey it's up to you but its hassle free feeding for me and they are thriving on it

it's hung from the roof in the coop, so it keeps dry and they can get at it 24/7

My chickens have a feeder full of chicken mix complete hung up in the coop available to them 24/7 plus they get any scraps that are going plus all the garden waste to pick over plus any other unfortunate creature that happens to wander into the run. Total feeding time is about half an hour a week, I...

and dandelions, a much maligned very important flower, and good to look at once the weed phobia is out of the way, bees adore dandelions and heaven knows they are easy enough to grow thanks for the tip on borage HappyBob, shall have to get some planted, oh and noticed this morning our yellow bell fl...

we have a lavender bush must be five feet across in full flower, you should see the bees on it, getting more honey bees this year too, a bonus, we grow flowers rather than veg, for the birds bees and butterflies, seems more important somehow, and without bees we are truly stuffed!

getting some peacocks now over the past week plus cabbage whites and one tortoiseshell, but no red admirals as yet, better than none though

I have two buddleia (butterfly bushes) in the garden absolutely covered in flower and no butterflies, infact I have only seen one or two of the common ones this year so far and no whites at all. Is this just local to holderness or is it a nationwide thing, also we have reasonable numbers of bumblebe...

Get a hanging feeder, put it in the coop where it's dry so the slugs can't get at it and that should solve theproblem, mine only get there extras in the run in the morning when the slugs have gone, any slugs that wander into the run while the chickens are up are considered as protein and promptly sc...

I have the same feeder and it sits on an upturned ceramic dog bowl, in this case to stop my chickens scratching dirt into it, it lasts my four all day like this and dog bowls (ceramic) are pretty cheep! boom boom

Yes signed up for that, what you don't try you don't get, I've been registered with Avaaz for quite a while now and they are very effective, and 38 degrees looks to be a UK local version of Avaaz so definitely worth a look, thank you for the link. Can't do any harm having a go at the big six robbers...

Mellonia I think rise hall is nearer you than me but I've never been so I don't know for sure, enjoyed the prog well enough though mind you thats because I'm down at Withernsea, Sunny Wid, but not today, Oh no!

Not a washing day today then! was out with the dogs earlier, sea is seriously rough, even the lifeboat crew didn't have their Sunday morning practice, and rain, well it's not that bad but with a gale behind it straight off the sea....nasty, still itl clean the beaches up a bit, another metre of clif...

not far from us then! white wash out today and dry despite a quick sprinkle at lunch time. Don't know about you but here on the coast it's dry but it's fluddy breezin!

We got one of there plastic covered strips of plants today a couple of plastic mini greehhouses wrapped round with card, poor spindly little things but they contained 6 geraniums and six fuschias for 3 .99, we will soon bring the plants back to life, looked like they had been in the dark for a week,...

morning redoak, I was a combi sceptic until we had one of the new ones put in and to be honest its very efficient, cheap to run and subject to your wallet provides limitless hot water, something a water tank will never do. The preheat purely keeps the heat exchanger up to temp and saves more on wate...