Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!

I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.


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Friday, 13 April 2012

Preparing for the new hens

 To get ready for the ex commercial flock hens we needed to sort out a secure run and house for them. As I do not know if they come with the terrible Red Mite attached, I decided to use the Eglu as the hen house - it can more easily be scrubbed and disinfected if the new girls DO bring any Red Mite - a wooden house is harder to get them gone!


So we removed the Eglu run and Compostman made up a link so the Eglu would fit onto his home made run. The Eglu run is not much use with new hens (who do not understand coming to humans for food) as you cannot get inside it to catch them or get dropped eggs etc. So we wanted to use the wooden run with the lift off roof - so if we needed to catch a hen we could do so .




All ready for the new girls :-) We can't wait until Sunday :-)


 



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  1. Karin17 April 2012 at 13:34

    I'm sure you must be pretty excited.

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  2. Lucy @ Smallest Smallholding17 April 2012 at 15:50

    I hope the girls are settling in already? :)

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  3. Sue18 April 2012 at 09:51

    Eglus are really useful aren't they, we are currently using the run part of ours, minus the house as a wet weather shelter for the hens, (we have the full plastic cover on the top), they love it and we call it the 'bus stop' as they line up in it as though they are waiting for a bus!

    Sue xx

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