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There’s no mistaking it now , he’s turned into a fair sized bird and I think the nicer of the 2 . The one with the white tail is still the dominant one but the one I wasn’t sure about has shot up and is slightly bigger . Seems to have paired with the hen in the nest box aswell and follows her everywhere, even stands in front of the nest box and waits while she’s laying
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Bought a few traps a couple of weeks back but I’ve only made one box so far so only been using one . Had 7 so far from the side one of my chicken coops as they come out from underneath . The coops only been there just over 4 weeks so it shows how quickly they turn up
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Just stumbled on this on YouTube. Didn’t know the Monday’s was a cover
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Going to be cold on the fingers today Edit- it was grim , only managed 3 dace and a couple of missed bites and the eyes were constantly freezing up
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I know , I could have done with them at the time though and he was fairly local so I tried more than I normally would .
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I’ve given up trying to sell on Facebook. You get messages asking if it’s still available so you say yes and they never respond . Another one is if you’ve got something up for say £100 they’ll message you and say £20 cash and I’ll collect tonight , like they’re doing you a favour . I had one clown from Chorley message me within minutes of me putting a reel on saying he definitely wanted it so we did a deal and I arranged to meet him next morning at darwen services . He never showed up and wouldn’t answer any messages . Buying can be as bad on there though , I’ve responded to a fair few ads and
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I’ve got a few silkie Sussex hybrids , light Sussex and cream legbars just for eating eggs and some rare breed houdans and Swedish flower hens for hatching eggs and chicks and now the old English game bantams .
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They are , I tried to get him to part with another dark hen to make a trio up but he wouldn’t go for it . I want a break from building runs and pens for a few weeks then I’ll knock some more up and get some Pyle and ginger and maybe some black red - partridge if I can find some
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Managed to get these today on my way back from picking some more Swedish flower hens from maryport . Got them from a bloke in Penrith . That will do me now till I can get some more pens built for some other colours
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Thanks , they don’t seem as easy to get hold of as I thought . I messaged a bloke on one of the Facebook groups that said he’d have plenty this month and heard nothing back and rang someone off preloved advertising a few different colours but he only had a mixed colour pair
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Thanks for the offer but it’s bantams he wants
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My brothers after a trio of oeg bantams if anyone’s got any for sale . Red Pyle preferably but black red - ginger or Furness is ok . Anywhere in Lancashire- Cheshire- Cumbria and West Yorkshire
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No , they went a while back . I forgot to update the post
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Loads of cabbage whites and a fair few red admirals aswell on my pen . Plenty of bees and millions of annoying wasps too
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Roughly 5 miles
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This was some of the lures I used . Forgot to mention the ima glide in sexy mackerel colour
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I don’t do it now but used to do a bit of bass lure fishing and I favoured hard baits over soft plastics . Not because they are better , just because I liked collecting jdm lures . My favourites were ima hound glide , ima sasuke , longin franky , longin hi standard , and megabass zonk . Top water wise have a look at xorus patchinko , xorus asturie and mechanic lures auto walker. Colours I favored in hardbaits were cotton candy , joker , 500g , yellow , white and sand bora . For soft plastics , savage gear sandeel , savage gear gravity sticks , fiish black minnows and pays bass jj minnows in
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That’s interesting , I’ve got another one in my other run that looks similar that I’ve wondered about . I’m going down after dinner so I’ll have a good look at both of them
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Just messaged a mate and asked him to nip on and have a look while he was down . He sent me these pictures and said he thinks it could be a cockerel but the other one makes you think it isn’t because it’s more advanced. He thinks it’s a slow maturing and it looks like saddle feathers are coming through
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I’ll have a proper look when I go down later , I don’t think it has though .
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I think you could be right . It’s one pullet less to buy when his next lot are ready if it is
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Got given 2 Swedish flower hens today , both are 18 weeks and from the same hatch and I was given them as cockerels . The bloke had sold one as a cockerel and the other as a pullet but got given both back with the person saying they were both cockerels and as he knew I needed one he sent me a few pictures and asked if I wanted them . I said I only wanted one and decided on the one with a white tail so didn’t pay much attention to the other one but changed my mind and decided to have the other as a spare . I took them home and put them in a run and stood there watching them with a few of the ot
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Not much flow but it’s a bite a chuck on the stick and waggler
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They are easy to work on if you haven’t already done it . Looks like the piston washer is missing in the picture and I couldn’t see if the piston o ring is still on . I got the tw chambers premium tuning kit with the standard spring when I did mine and layer decided to get a t r robb piston head for it and also made a piston sleeve and it now shoots pretty well with no twang . It would also be worth making or getting a spring compressor off eBay to make it easier to put back together
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Savage sandeels and fiish black minnows I did alright with for bass , pollock and wrasse when I used to do that kind of fishing . There’ll be copies on temu and Ali . 9 7 tungsten are doing some lures that are worth a look and rooneys lures seem popular with the sea lads
