Phill from Flyte so Fancy at Pulham here, with a short update on the measures that we've taken
to make our Protection Pen - with our lovely Brahmas here that's on our display area - compliant to
Defra's regulations for Bird Flu. So we have, as we see, the pen here with the wood chip in, nice
and clean. We've put some cabbage in there for them to peck at, we've got some pecking blocks so they
don't get bored. They've got a bit of a jungle gym. What we've done is we've covered the roof.
We've put on a translucent reinforced tarpaulin and it's attached with zip ties; this goes right
over the roof and it means that no wild birds can sit on the roof of the pen and poo through
and contaminate the ground inside. Now this is, as I say, a translucent reinforced tarpaulin - it's not
as heavy duty as our rain shades, which are like lorry tarpaulins, this is something in between
but should be good enough to take you through the winter until the bird flu regulations disappear.
So this is a three-meter by three-meter one which we sell on our site, we do several other sizes but
you can buy them from builders merchants to online, all kinds of places, so there you go. It's very easy
to put on: just stretch it over the top and zip tie where the eyelets are. If you find you have to make
another hole to get a few more ties in, if it's a windy area, then there's a reinforcing rope around
the outside so you can just poke a hole and put another zip tie through. Absolutely safe and sound.
So that keeps you completely compliant there. One of the other things that we've done is to
prepare a disinfectant foot bath so that you can disinfect your feet as you go in and out of the
pen. We're using here a 20 litre recycled rubber tyre basket which is great, it's easily portable
holds plenty of liquid for your needs. We've got a disinfectant mixture in there made up - we can use
either of the two Defra recognized disinfectants, Virkon tablets or Virocur powder disinfectant, made
up to the manufacturer's recommendations and you also need to equip yourself with a brush.
So we'll just take this over and put it outside the door so that as we go in and out
we can give our feet a good old scrub. Scrub scrub, scrubby scrub. There we go. Do the other
foot as well and then you can go in and out. Now the other good thing about this set up here
is that the birds can be accessed from outside the pen, so the only time you have to go in is to feed
or alter Boredom Busters and this sort of thing.
So if we wander around to the house now I'll show you how you can access the house from the outside.
And here we can see the Long-Legged Maggie's 6 with the mating panel onto the Pen
positioning the house well outside so that you can easily access the house for cleaning,
like so. Also of course if you look underneath you'll see that we have a feeder under there
so that's well covered and also of course with the translucent tarpaulin on the roof of the pen
the drinkers inside are completely covered as well, so that's great stuff. And then when you want to go
and collect your breakfast eggs you just wander around here, up goes the lid aaaaand they haven't laid
any today. But as you can see that gives you great access without disturbing the birds and having to
forever be disinfecting your feet, you only have to go in when it's necessary.
So that's what we've done with our display Protection Pen, thank you very much
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