Keeping hens and ducks chat.

Before I throw my laptop out of my first floor window does anyone know how to change the page colour on MSE from the horrid blue back to the old green colour. I know new-ish users have the blue colouring but those of us that have been on the forums for some time started off with the green colouring and that colour appears to be the favourite with most as it is with me. Anyway with all this talk of MSE changing things and jigging things about I was just reading a thread and someone on it gave instructions on how to change the colour from the old style green to the new-ish blue. So guess what? Me sitting here and deciding to be nosey and have a look at the blue colouring I changed the colour. So now I have the blue page and can't find my way back to the old style green. I need HELP cos I hate this new-ish layout and the blue.

Can anyone direct me please before I pull my hair out ? Pretty please ?

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ETA.... Thankfully nearly an hour later, I still have all my hair and I am back to the calm green colouring. That will serve me right for not leaving things as they were. What a palaver. :rotfl: Should have left it alone and not started fiddling with things late in the evening because our alarm is set for 7am and we are going to try to get some sort of temporary roof on the coop before the rain starts hammering down for the day. By all accounts the weather is going to be atrocious from 8am tomorrow and it will be non stop all day. Can't just leave the girls to get wet especially as they have never seen or felt rain on their little bodies before. Bless their hearts.


Just realised I haven't changed my signature to include my new girls yet BUT I am not going to touch anything on MSE again tonight or maybe never again in the future :rotfl:

All going ok here with our new girls, thankfully. A little arguing but nothing much to speak of, which I am most pleased about. Hubby managed to get a temporary roof over half of the coop which served its purpose to a certain degree except for the odd small holes in the tarpaulin here and there. I put their water buckets under some of the holes to catch the rain to fill them up as no good trying to patch those up in the atrocious weather we had today. It was just awful for most of the day.

Can't believe we have 23 eggs already :eek: :eek: albeit 4 were soft shelled, so I will scramble those 4 up and give them back to them as a treat. I would rather they didn't lay eggs at the moment because it is important to them and us that they put their energy in to growing their feathers back . Not that they have any control over what their little bodies do of course but still I know what would happen if we had a choice in the matter. Although we are grateful for them it certainly is not necessary that they lay any especially as we are heading for the colder winter months now and they need all the energy for themselves. Bless their little hearts

How did the gate making go this morning Cheery ? All go ok with sorting something out ?. We find that pallets are excellent for gates and fences and have used many pallets around our previous veg beds for that purpose of stopping the hens gaining access to my veg. The odd hen used to jump on my nearby "sit and have a cuppa" bench and fly over and I would catch her munching her way through a row of spinach or lettuce or something green and tasty but I didn't mind at all to be honest. We used broken down pallets and chicken wire for the gates so I could gain access and they couldn't, unless they were lured over there by the organic green stuff and the braved it and took flight. Total menaces they were :rotfl:

On a more serious note cheery if you have anything delivered on pallets for any of your building projects always ask if you can keep the pallets. You can't keep any blue ones as they always must be returned, hence the reason for being painted. It's just that they will stand out so people are less likely to keep them knowing they should be returned. Freecycle often has pallets on offer from people that have had stuff delivered but don't want the pallet once it has been unloaded of stuff. They are just so useful in your lifestyle as they are with ours Cheery. All depends if you can get them in one of your cars or maybe on a roof rack I suppose. We have builders through word of mouth that drop pallets off at ours that would otherwise have been thrown in to skips plus we have several builders that live in our road so they drop them off on their way home from work. We put a wanted post for pallets on Freecycle when we first moved here and word got around that we reuse them for projects in our garden or for starting one of our stoves and now we never need to go out and collect any :cool:
Will get pics of our new girls on here in a couple of days


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