the daydream fund challenge thread

choille

Yes - I use the cloudy organic stuff. You can buy it in bulk from Animal health but I haven't as yet. It is supposed to have all sorts of health properties.
I also use garlic sometimes in the water. Good as a wormer - well helps to keep them worm free & it's also an anti-viral.

lostinrates

I don't use cider vinegar for the chooks but I might start.

I often take it myself...not for the health benefits, I just like it.

ukmaggie45

Hi there Folks, it's a glorious sunny morning, I'm hoping to plant out the Cherokee trail of tears and some broad beans today.

Dave, have been following a fairly local nursery on Twitter, and we're thinking we might have trip to see it soon (possibly tomorrow). Found they have a blog, and I thought you might find their most recent post interesting.

We're going to plant out the peonies OH gave me for our ruby wedding today. He deep dug the ground yesterday having cleared it of a mass of Ladies Mantle and geraniums (the cranesbill type) last weekend. Those have gone to a new home at DD's garden. Must just re-check the size they will grow to! Hoping to get the astrantia Ruby Wedding when it's available, and will plant that close to the peonies too.

The second lot of Blue Danube potatoes are flowering now, but a couple of the plants have been very badly slug/snail damaged.


Blue Danube in flower by ukmaggie45, on Flickr

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Dave, have been following a fairly local nursery on Twitter, and we're thinking we might have trip to see it soon (possibly tomorrow). Found they have a blog, and I thought you might find their most recent post interesting.

Yes, it was interesting! Thanks for that.

I'm not sure if what we do now is a 'proper' job, but I'll just point out that our Anthemis 'Sauce Hollandaise' is £3.50 and it's in a 2 litre pot!

That probably beats both of them.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi all:j

sorry to hear about your chicken Davesnave:o

If you are anything like me all the problems seem to come on top of each other...

Apple cider vinegar where will i be able to get it? if the lady is still doing the silage bales in her late 70's, then i want gallons of the stuff:rotfl:

The link to the nursery blog was interesting...it's got me thinking about trying to get a few more shows in this year to try and sell my wellies etc.. havent done any this year:cool:

My eldest is playing with his band in a local music festival this afternoon, so will have the lace to myself... been in a bit of a 'ratty' mood last night and this morning, due to the boys treating me like a piece of poo, but yet expecting money here there and everywhere, and not doing jobs around the house to earn it.... so i had a bit of a 'flip', telling them they are were an ungratefull bunch of:A:A

I think a nice afternoon on my own, mooching around the garden and the old computer is in order:D


Choille:T:T:T sounds as though the house is making steady progress.... will keep an eye on your blog for the pics....


LIR......will just have to wear my wellies then with my long dress to stop my ankles being atacked....lol...

rhiwfield

Always a treat to see a hummingbird hawk moth. It was around the lavender bed 30 mins ago, moving a darn sight faster than me, bit of a miracle I got this photo.

CTC, I guess the cider vinegar they sell at Scats and Countrywide is ok for people.

lostinrates

we have another ''weed''. I'm not sure what to do if it turns out we have a crop of them...besides not sell it.

I had a big spoon of cider vinegar this morning after all the talking about it. we're making slow progress and hevay work of everything today. Its just not fun today.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I was just up in the local pound/garden shop and they have gerainiums sp? for sale, the garden ones and the house plant ones for a £1, the ouside ones are huge, and the houseplant ones are the normal 5- 6 plants in one pot...

a few years back i used to buy the houseplant ones and then seperate the plants into individual pots:D and used to sell them in the farm auctions for 50p per plant... making £1.50 profit..;)

I am in 2 minds to buy a few of the plants and take cuttings and save them for next year...what do you think?

I also cut down our honeysuckle earlier this year, as we put up a new garden fence, and there must have been suckers in amoungst the rubbish:cool: and its going awol now:rotfl: so might go and see if i can pot them on or peg them down to root for next year....

I must admit i have forgotten how i used to make extra pennies right at the very begining to try and pay off our debts.....

Think i also need to go back to the bare basics there too...:beer:

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hi all:j

sorry to hear about your chicken Davesnave:o

If you are anything like me all the problems seem to come on top of each other...

Yup, the grill packed up on the cooker, the satellite thingy isn't working as it should, and now the people we got the chickens from are refusing to take them back, claiming that they got ill here, despite us e-mailing them on the day we bought them to say we were concerned. :mad:

Methinks the Sale of Goods Act applies to livestock and that we'll be invoking it pretty soon. I like email though; there's a paper trail as long as your arm on this, whereas if it had been 'phone, there would have been nothing.

Any advice gratefully received.

lostinrates

I've driven down to inside the M25 for chickens in summer and travelled them back (jounrey back took 2.5 hours, so well within ''regs'' but still, hefty in heat). As long as travel conditions are fair, and not luxury (cardboard box with vent holes on a cool enough back seat) I'd be pretty suprised if travelling a well chicken made it sick. In fact, it would determine me to the fact they were temperaments and constitutions for breeding from!

Primarily the worrying thing about the breeders dodging responsibility is the failure to address an issue in their own stock. Its crazily bad animal management to not want to know what it is. Head in the sand gets you know where but big problems with lifestock IME.

Dh says yeah, he'll check if you want but off hand he thinks your are right about Sale of Goods act. The fact you've got a vet involved, have the paper trail is all valuable.