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    I've read I few articles that said their about a month early this year I've got a stainless funnel with a mesh in it, let's small bits through but not to much, I have used muslin in the past and was good I've used coffee filters once took bloody ages
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    I'm going sloe picking tomorrow as they are early this year, it's been a good year I think as the hedges at my smallholding are thick with em I make sloe vodka as I don't like gin, does anyone else make it? And what recipe do you use? I usually put the sugar in at the start but have read you get more flavour out the sloes if you put it in before bottling?, may try that this year
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    After much reading of reviews and comments and watching of utube videos I went to the gun shop today to treat myself, I still wasn't 100% what to get when I walked through the door but knew that I wanted a good old spring gun as I like the simplicity of pocket full of pellets grab gun and go I've done the pneumatic thing years ago (mk1 rapid) and loved it but wanted to keep the cost down and have less bits and bobs I decided to get a TX200 in .177 , all my others air guns over the years have been .22 so just fancied a change, I put a hawke 3-9x50 ao ir sport hd scope on a one piece mou
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    i chucked it in the hedge but I will c if it still there and get a better pic tomorrow
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    All meat gone and a few chunks out of the top of breast bone
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    So I suppose my next question is will the f***er start on my flock of geese? I have nowhere big enough to shut them away and of course they need the grass in the paddocks I have 7 adult and 6 half grown goslings they are very protective so I hope it won't mess with them
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    Hope photo works Just when I thought it was sorted it's now hitting my ducks their run has loads of tree cover and they spend most their time under the low trees so I thought they would be ok, obviously not, had one in pic dead and cleaned to the bone and another had been struck on the back and is hurt but may make it Ducks are now in pen with chickens with so many CDs dangling above them it looks like an 80s disco
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    Well the CDs and string seem to have worked, no more losses
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    The last hen and goslings were killed inside the pen as I had shut them away after finding the first one killed, the pen is pegged down all round and 6' tall nothing had dug or ripped in No bodies today hopefully the string and CDs have worked
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    I have some garden netting I could try but lots of trees and bushes, might be a little awkward but will try it
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    lol
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    do you work for the RSPCA
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    I'm getting very pissed right now I've been fox free at my smallholding since I installed an electric fence around the whole perimeter, that was about 18 months ago and Ive built up a nice flock of chickens suffering no losses since, but in the last 3 days I've lost 2 fully grown hens (just head found with one and picked clean bones of the other) also 2 goslings only 3 day old in with chickens as hatched by a hen I get buzzards and kites on holding all the time but never bothered them before, would it be one that just learned to kill chickens? What can I do to stop it?, I've shut them in the
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    I got some posts nearly 20 years old, it's just been the last few years they are rubbish I was chatting to a fencing guy and he reckons the eu banned something in the treatment?
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    Does anyone use old engine oil to treat fence posts? I'm fed up of posts not lasting more than 4-5 years these days pressure treatment does nothing now it seems. My mate is a mechanic and I just picked up 5 gallons of old oil and can have as much more as I like, I've got an old 40 gallon drum I've cut the top off and I'm gunna soak the bottom foot or so that's going in the ground in there for a few weeks!! Have you tried this? Does it work?
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    caught 2 swarms last sunday put 1 straight into an empty top bar the other into a poly nuc with 6 new topbars went to transfer the nuc to another empty topbar today and 5 of the bars needed cutting to fit as they had build new comb on all bars already and 5 were fully square the size of the nuc so needed to be tapered to fit the topbar amazing how fast they work when there starting out from fresh
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    I keep telling the misses if we split up im moving into our caravan at our small holding, bugger renting a house or room, be abit shitty with this weather we`ve had but i`d be quids in, prostitute once a fortnight and no fecking moaning what have i been waiting for feck it i`m off
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    Wasps

    trapperman replied to scothunter's topic in General Talk

    The last 2 years my wasp season started in april, ive only just booked my first job this year for tomorrow morning gonna be a slow season this year i think, still seeing queen wasps out foraging
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    never had a jay but loads of jackdaws in mk4s in tunnels
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    Checked next day and they have buggerd off oh well shit happens
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    Caught my first swarm of the year today and put in one of my new built topbar hives only a couple of pounds of bees but should get going well
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    How have your first inspections gone? Its funny my hive that went into winter on double brood and was by far the strongest is now by far the weekest and my smallest colony last autumn is now bursting at the seams and is now on double brood, the other 2 nationals have brood on about 5-6 frames my 2 topbar hives are alive and laying although 1 i should think had no more than a couple of hundred bees, so have put some syrup on and closed them up abit Got loads of rape out all around me at the moment but with all this rain i dont think they will be able to make the most of it
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    Nice one, made a few gallons of cider myself in the past just mixing apples from vasrious trees. Always said that as soon as I have a garden right for the job I will plant some cider apple trees, you only get proper cider from cider apples. Where did you get the trees from? Andy I got them from the victoriana nursary, i got 5 trees total so £15 each, i got a crab apple along with the cider trees to help with pollonation as even tho i have a small orchard i`ve never had great crops bar the 3rd year after planting. How did your cider from normal apples turn out?
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    thanks mate, will be awhile before i get many off the cider trees but i have a bramley and a few desert apples in the orchard and didnt think i could use them i may give it ago this year
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    i`ve just planted my first cider apple trees "yarlington mill" at my holding, so in a few years will try my hand at making some cider, thier on m25 rootstock so should get pretty big, only 4 trees at the mo but i have got a load of rootstocks growing as i`m going to try grafting some of my dads apples this year so i will graft some more cider trees this time next year. If anyone whos ever made cider could give some tips or useful links that would be great.
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