Thanks all for your help. Job is done got a nice clean oven in full working order again.
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Dont know if this is the right place for this but will continue any way. The RSPCA at Brighton have 4000 ex battery/barn hens needing homes. If you need an email address please PM me Rehoming begins 26th May.
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Thanks SB and H B I know a bloke who can. All Ive got to do is find someone to help clean the oven first ( cant kneel cause of arthritus and oven is on the floor) at least I now know its not going to cost ££££££££s. You lot are so helpfull.
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Does anyone know if I have to get a sparks in to change an oven element or can I ask a willing guy to do it. Now Ive got to clean the oven!!
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I have a friend living in France who keeps chickens and gets layers pellets for them so maybe thats is the chicken feed youve seen. He gets his corn from the farmer and his run is on soil and he says their is plenty of grit in the soil and he can buy oyster shell. So maybe its a case of looking roun...

So sorry
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I understand builders sand has an orange dye in it. I was told to use sharp sand. But I am a mere female so can be wrong about these things.
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Yep I wear the same scruff fashions as the rest of you with my old dog walking coat on to of whatever that now has vaseline all down the front mixed in with purple spray stains etc. My daughter came round early to pick me up to take me out for the day once and she said I looked like an out of work f...

Thankyou all for your answers. Been covering them all with PJ as they go to bed.Only time I can catch them, They are not too happy with it(nor am Its really its cold out there). How long do I have to do it? 2 weeks or so? My old dog coat is now waterproof again in Places, I put it on they wipe it of...

Thanks Al, But where have they come from, do they live in the shed like other mites? Every where is kept as clean and disinfected as I can (even though 6 mucky pups seem to prefer it messy) Does the cold not make them dormant? I have a plastic shed with a wooden shelf which has diatom all over it Ma...

Think I have a chook with SLM I thought this cold weather mites would be dormant. Has anyone tried cooking oil for it. I have been advised to dunk their feet and legs in cheap cooking oil for a couple of mins every day for a fortnight and it would suffocate the mites and damaged scales would fall of...

So sorry lizzie

Show off!! I got two.
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Yep know what you mean. Its been like that here till the wind blows off the sea then you cant get warm. Roll on summer eh!!
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