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Rabid

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  1. Rabid

    Tylan

    Yes it's the same birds, they have been treated a couple of times by the vet, you can never get rid of it once you have it, all you are able to do is treat the symptoms and keep them healthy, they can go a year or more with no problems, or can have it every month, no way of knowing why or when, but when they are ok they are perfect, that's the reason I was surprised the vets would not prescribe it again without seeing the birds, last time I had to educate the vet on my co, they had to google it ! But now they know it will always keep coming back, they know I have it, why won't they prescribe i
  2. Roundup, it's active ingredient is glyphosphate, as above don't buy the crap garden centres etc sell as it really is rubbish.
  3. Does any one use it, or know best way to buy it without paying vets silly money ? I have a few birds that suffer with mycoplasma, it's a re occurring thing, yet even though the vets have agreed in the past that's the problem, and Tylan is the way to treat it, (and even supplied Tylan last year) and it will nearly always come back every year, they still want to see one of the infected birds for a £70 fee, just seems to me they are just trying to make a fortune off the back of it.
  4. Always done my ducks wet, but never boiled them ever, in fact I never tried the scalding on anything. I can have a large duck rough plucked in 10 minutes pretty easy, Mrs does all the final cleaning of pins.
  5. Sounds cheap to me what's been quoted so far, Bedfordshire are 90 quid for a pickup bed, I used to charge £220 for a 3 and a bit cubic metre trailer load of good seasoned ash and oak and had more orders than I could deal with, I packed that in two years ago and still they keep ringing, never advertised once, it was all word of mouth.
  6. I like the first one in black
  7. Strange that, I find ducks dead easy to pluck
  8. Very nice birds, but by Christ they can fly, found one in the top of a dead walnut about 30 odd foot up, never seen it since !
  9. Thanks, these are all well grown poults so hopefully no probs this year.
  10. I got one a couple of weeks ago, sits happy at 90 on the motorway, pulls better than a train (I tow 3.5 ton on a daily basis and this is as good if not better than my Range Rover was), it's comf, easy to drive and the interior is actually better than I expected, down side, you can tell it's not a high budget built motor, and skippy on the back end till loaded, but I have done 1k in four days now and loving it more every day Taking it easy with then mate , but liking mine more every day also and i even fixed my little problem with a blob of super glue,so deffo cheap to fix as well ... T
  11. I got one a couple of weeks ago, sits happy at 90 on the motorway, pulls better than a train (I tow 3.5 ton on a daily basis and this is as good if not better than my Range Rover was), it's comf, easy to drive and the interior is actually better than I expected, down side, you can tell it's not a high budget built motor, and skippy on the back end till loaded, but I have done 1k in four days now and loving it more every day
  12. Oh spot on mate, lovely job, just the ticket, pigs are next on my list, once I got my head round it all.
  13. Just got myself a few turkeys, bronze heritage and Norfolk blacks, any one tried these before ? I was hoping to keep a few for breeding some more youngsters next year as well as the heritage birds are supposedly good for this.
  14. Very good post, I spent years doing my birds tendons like that, until I was lucky enough to get a puller, love the idea of the washer/plucker, but I can imaging it would fair knock the bird about, looks almost too easy to be that simple with no problems. Always looking for new ideas, with about 30 meats to do, and now another 27 turkeys, I must love work. How do you guys go about the scalding, temps etc, as I have never tried it but heard it makes a huge difference.
  15. Belter for a river fish pal, well done, as said she looks bigger than stated
  16. Some nice fish pal, can't wait to get some time on the river myself
  17. As per title, I am looking for some brass in the above calibre if anyone can help.
  18. If you take £35 posted I would take it
  19. Glad to see the 6.5 still doing the business Rich
  20. Just picked up a trio of yokohama's, not what I was expecting or looking for, but was looking for a good home so thought I would try them out, still looking for other suggestions.
  21. Mm, looking good, might have to get my arse in gear and get some, My blackberry wine two years ago was the best wine I ever did make
  22. Ha, I am doing creosote tomorrow, but not for the chooks, they live in a brick building, 2nd world war ammo bunker in fact, it's good as it has all the ventilation built into the walls but needs no maintenance and is secure
  23. Thanks Stevo, I would most certainly be interested in trying some eggs, I have been googling dorkings, they do look a nice bird. Got my hands full today fencing another part of the orchard off for them, they love been able to roam amongst the trees.
  24. I been looking at the elders this week and reckon they are about right so may do some this weekend, lovely stuff, you won't regret it
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