IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We use concrete based runs, with wire fencing, and wooden housing. We use bark chippings for the birds to scratch in and chopped straw bedding. This enables us to easily clean out each house and run after a stay, with the area being power-washed with disinfectant, and the houses having a Red Mite/Louse treatement after every visit. All the used bark and bedding is then added to our manure heap to rot down, the heat generated killing any mites or disease within the waste.
No. We keep the birds within a caged environment for their own safety. They have sunlight and plenty of scratching about, whilst being safe from predators. We live in the country and during the Spring, we have a lot of fox and badger activity, we have vermin chasing the food supplies and we have Corvids (the Crow family) and other birds of prey that will steal eggs and small poultry, so we feel that keeping visiting birds in enclosed runs is the safeest environment for them.
We do not have the capacity to keep multiple varieties of food on site or the staff numbers to feed different flocks different foods. We feed all our birds with Badminton Layers Pellets and Badminton Mixed Corn. These two create a balanced and mild diet for your birds and should not upset them in any way. We would only feed them veg scraps having agreed this with you prior to their stay.
