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    Default A handy website.

    I've been meaning to add this for a while. It's a very handy site that covers all things smallholding, from starting a garden to preserving the harvest and keeping chickens. Hope you find it useful
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    Psst Winnie I think you forgot the site
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pal334 View Post
    Psst Winnie I think you forgot the site
    Oops!

    I'll have another go then

    http://www.allotment.org.uk/
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    Looks like a very good reference, though it isn't specific to my area. I'll be doing a lot of reading on there. Thanks for sharing!

    winnie, aren't you the chicken expert here? I have been thinking of starting my own coop. Would you mind a few PM's on some specifics to get me started?

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    Not at all YCC. pm away!
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    YCC, you can hit up Nell, as well. She's chicken....er..uh....I mean raises them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by your_comforting_company View Post
    I have been thinking of starting my own coop.
    You're gonna overthrow a gov't, by yourself???

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    Default Chicken Story

    OK, here's another story that starts - Once upon a time in a forest called Uwharrie. A young and not particularly knowledgeable, Special Forces student was undergoing survival training. One particular task was hypnotizing a chicken before doing him in. I don't know why, but is was cool at the time. You place his head on the ground (beak down) and slowly draw a line in the dirt from his beak to about six inches. Continue tracing the line in the dirt for about 30-60 seconds and then slow to a stop, The chicken will not move from that position and you can place stick over his neck, etc.

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    Ah yes OGI but don't you have to "first catch your chicken"?

    BTW Norma has been corresponding with the girls and they are now fully fledged drumsticko ninja chickens That old flannel won't work I tell ya!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Old GI View Post
    OK, here's another story that starts - Once upon a time in a forest called Uwharrie. A young and not particularly knowledgeable, Special Forces student was undergoing survival training. One particular task was hypnotizing a chicken before doing him in. I don't know why, but is was cool at the time. You place his head on the ground (beak down) and slowly draw a line in the dirt from his beak to about six inches. Continue tracing the line in the dirt for about 30-60 seconds and then slow to a stop, The chicken will not move from that position and you can place stick over his neck, etc.

    HEY!!!!!!!!! I said I didn't know what it proved and still don't, but it was fun.


    I wonder if thats the trick he used on his wife?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit View Post
    You're gonna overthrow a gov't, by yourself???

    (Snicker,snicker...I'm sorry...I couldn't stop myself! LOL)
    been there, done that...

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