On Aug 5, 6:00*pm, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
"Martin" wrote in message

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On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:55:26 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

A report on radio4 this morning, asking people to keep a bee colony in
their
gardens and even on a balcony (for example) for city dwellers. *How
practical is this?

Put the Beehaus next to the Egloo?
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Don't start me on Eglus. *They are far too small to keep chickens in, and
they are plastic which often gives the hens unfortunate enough to live in
them respiratory problems.
If anyone would like keep a few chickens, buy yourself a 6x4 garden shed,
lay some second hand paving slabs in front of it and construct a run made of
at least 2 x 2 timber on top of the slabs, attach weldmesh to this (chicken
wire will not do) and put a roof of cheap corrugated sheets on top of the
run.
You now have a fox-proof place, much larger than an Eglu for no more money.

I've noted that the Beehaus comes from the same manufacturers.

I hate this new idea that everyone can keep chickens in the tiniest of
gardens with an Eglu - and now it seems to be extending to bees.

Tina

Now don't you start me off Christina :-) My hens are out in the
fields all day long, they come back at dusk, they enter the Eglu at
around 10p.m. they are let out at 7a.m. to roam free all day. My
neighbour's chickens, which are kept enclosed in a farmyard, dirt
floor, no grass now, have ALL stopped laying and their nasty cockerel
is very bad tempered, he attempted a peck on my leg the other day, he
had better watch it or he will end in the pot!

Judith