New chicken feeder

We have got an new chicken feeder for are Banff castle community chicken project for the chickens. It is a big green container that has black stands, so it can help it to stay up right. The chickens peck at the bottom of the container to get the food which drops from the container to the floor. I think it is a good container for the chickens and us, so we don't have to keep on filling the container up everyday, like we did with the old one.    

Sustainweb

This is an list from Sunstainweb about 7 principles of sustainable food.

1) Use local, seasonally available ingredients as standard, to minimise energy used in food production, transport and storage.

2) Specify food from farming systems that minimise harm to the environment, such as certified organic produce.

3) Limit foods of animal origin (meat, dairy, products and eggs) served, as livestock farming is one of the most significant contributors to climate change, and promote meals richin fruit, vegetables, pulses, wholegains and nuts. Ensure that meat, dairy products and eggs are produced to high environmental and animal welfare standards.

4) Exclude fish species identified as most at risk by the Marine Conservation Society, and choose fish only from sustainable sources- such as those acredited by the Marine Stewardship Council.

5) Choose Fairtrade-certified products for foods and drinks imported from poorer countries, to ensure a fair deal for disadvantaged producers.

6) Avoid bottled water and instead serve plain or filtered tap water in reusable jugs or bottles, to minimise transport and packaging waste.

7) Promote health and well-being by cooking with generous portions of vegetables, fruit and starchy staples like wholegrains, cutting down on salt, fats and oils, and cutting out artificial additives. 

This is Our New Chicken Rota

New Chicken Rota

We have made an new chicken rota with an new family joining are rota for the chickens at Banff Castle. The new family is Bryan, Carla, Izzy and Alex Angus who are on the rota every Wednesday of the week. Our tips to give them are to make sure the chickens have enough food and water in the cointainers, make sure inside the coop is clean, if not clean it with the equinment from the pink bin and put the poop in the big black bin and that's our tips for them.                

update from the 22/08/2011

I got the bus to Eden gardens and waited for Roger to arrive. When Roger arrived he told me that we had got things to finish in Banff Castle so I got in the van and went to Banff castle and had a warm drink before we started work. Once we finished our drink Roger put us in groups and me and James went in the van to Banff day services to pick up slabs.   There was 6 of them so me and James carried them to the van.

We drove back to Banff Castle and me and James put the slabs in a wheelbarrow and dropped them beside the chicken run. I and James had to level out the ground before we could put the slabs down.   When we did put the slabs down we had to make sure the slabs wouldn’t wobble. Roger was moving the chicken boxes to the front of the coop and making a flap so we can get the eggs out easier.

garlic for pets

Animals too benefit from garlics amazing power fedding tiny pea sized pices of raw garlic to your pets at meal times will help deterticks fleas and parasites just feed them the garlic occasionally to keep pets away or when you notice an infestatioon adding garlic to the diet of chickens will help them cintaine to lay eggs during very cold and very hot spells simpley grate pea sized pices of garlic in there water daily quanity is for 10 to 15 minutes chickens so ajust accordingly for the size of your flock make sure you observe your pets and if you notice and adverse reactions stop the garlic ttreatmenst immediatley

grants visit to the chickens

by granty

Today i went down to see the chickens.   Some people were digging and others were hammering.   James simpson got upset when he was in with the cickens because he thought that it was going to attack him.  We found three eggs inside and i got to take one home.

 i like going down because john's car was cool and so were the chickens and i like collecting eggs.