We hope you and all your chooks are well! We have had a busy few months up on the farm since opening in August. We now only have 12 hens left and they are selling fast - once this lot are gone we won't be getting anymore until march! 

With the run up to Christmas being so busy, don't forget to stock up on your chicken feed, remember delivery is FREE locally and you don't even need to be in when we deliver, just tell us where to leave it. 

We have been selling lots of growers pellets/mash the last few weeks rather than the usual layers, it would seem a lot of our customers buy some every year before winter sets in to bulk up their chickens for the long cold season. Growers pellets have a slightly higher protein content than layers pellets.

For those chicken lovers in your life check out our online shop, we have chicken novelties plus other luxury items such as stainless steel feeders and drinkers etc which make great gifts! 

With temperatures dropping don't forget to make sure your chickens water isn't frozen. We usually empty the waterer and take it up to the house with us in the evening when we shut the chickens away and take a freshly refilled one back down in the morning to save fiddling about trying to get the ice out. 

Finally don't forget to make sure you have some cider apple vinegar at the ready. If you don't use it regularly we recommend using it for a week once a month in your chickens water throughout the winter to help with any stress or depression during the winter and periods of snow. It has also been shown to help keep worms at bay and is a cost effective all round tonic for them. Remember not to put it in a metal drinker though, it's too acidic, if it corrodes the metal it may contaminate the water. 

We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 

Tanya, Matt and Holly

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