Hope you all had a marvellous Christmas with family and friends Shaun and Adele, here’s to a better 2025 🤞, Ali 🎄🧑‍🎄🇨🇦

Hi mate hope you and the family had a great Christmas 🎄 all the best

Bon noel et jouyeuses fetes as we say over here. Love and best wishes to you and the lovely Adele. No need to apologise for the wind noise. It's the sprouts.! 🌬

Hope you had a lovely Christmas. You have the ultimate potato growing set up!- Brings to mind 'If I won the lottery there would be signs'.

Tell us the variety

Super Spudtastic harvest Shaun.. Merry Christmas..

Same to you mate, all the best to you both 🎄

Great vid thanks gone purchase one these .

Put heater on full more often

When i was a kid our hunter wellies had studs , dont know if the y still make em now

Ok so nothing to do with studs 😉😉. Hope your keeping well 👍, high winds and power outages here yesterday it back to what passes for normal now. Have a fab week Shaun, Ali 🌞🥶🇨🇦

Hi Shaun hope you both are good.Great tip has I have a good stream that runs through my garden.Good for extra grip.You both take care chat soon 👍🏻

They look good might do that to my older muck boots

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good tip, thank you x

Such a shame

I’m so sorry Shaun 🤬🤬🤬🤬 stoat. I hear they make a great pair of slippers. Chin up ❤, Ali 🥶🇨🇦

Sorry Shaun you have worked to hard to give up ,that's not the British way come back fighting more traps tighter security stronger wine and beer and more than anything more chickens ,you can't put a price on fresh eggs ever morning for your breakfast !!!! 🍳🍳🍳🍳🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚

I lost 9 hens to a stoat they a pain Sean

So sorry!

I know how you feel. We had many chickens here in New York State years ago. At the time, there were no local stores that sold just 6 or 8 chicks, so you had to get them in the mail and they sent 25 at once. 🐤🐥🐣🐤🐥🐣🐤🐥🐣🐤🐥🐣🐤🐥🐣🐤🐥🐣🐤🐥🐣🐤🐥🐣🐤 We actually raised all of them and I think only lost 1 or 2 in the beginning. Then as adults, msybe 1 or 2 were lost due to healtth, injuries or mishaps. So for many years of successful egg laying (and eating!) One summer, we started noticing chickens missing every few nights. We checked everything, looked at what we could could not find anything out of place. Our chicken coop was quite large and you could have lived in it as a small barn. It had stairs going up to it. Special doors for them to get in & out, and good egg laying boxes at 2 heights plus several roosting poles. It had a window, lights and was probably 8 x 10 feet or 10 x 12 feet inside -- very well built by us 🏠 As Summer went on we started losing a chicken or so nightly. A few evenings _(in the middle of the night!)_ ✨️🥱🌙✨️ we heard and realized that a chicken was being attacked and somehow running around the front yard and not roosting in the hen-house (which was fenced in with tall strong cattle panel. By the time we got outside and looked with flashlights, we saw some feathers quite far from the hen-house and nothing else....no "body" 🐾🐔☠️ _This went on for days._ One night, the sounds were closer to the house and we could hear heavy pounding - as if someone was taking a sledgehammer to the side of the house 🏠 🔨 plus this God awful gut-wrenching screaming. As we got outside that night, I thought it was a small bear that had something in the corner of the house. To our surprise it was no bear but the biggest raccoon I had ever seen!! (🐻=🦝) And he was devastatingly destroying that poor chicken. My husband ran to get a gun. I'm doing what l could to try to keep the raccoon cornered by the main house... But he got away before we had a chance. Each night we kept checking the yard and the house..in fact the whole property. Securing everything, relocking everything, getting rid of the automatic doors for the chickens to go in and out -- and doing what we could to secure all. We knew there was trouble because the one day the raccoon took out the 2 roosters, and we found them in horrible conditions in the front yard, almost like a warning telling us that we had 'already lost the fight.' ☠️🐓🦝🐓 😈 The next day I went to go get the eggs - as by now we were trying to gather them as soon as we could -- just to stop any other possible critters from coming by. 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚 As I got into the hen house standing looking at me with his tail raised was a huge skunk. 🦨 My husband was not far behind me and and we were deciding how do we get out of this situation? Because if we move too fast he would just spray everything. All would be ruined. ⚡️👃⚡️ My husband was not fully in the hen house yet, so he ran to get a long broom. And doubled the handle in the hopes to maybe push the skunk out. 🧹 I was in a position that I couldn't get to the door otherwise I'd be sprayed - so I stood very still as my husband got in there. I don't know how we didn't see it but that "bear of a raccoon" was standing in the corner of the chicken house on its tip toes, leaning back as skinny and as tall as he could be - with a look on his face as if he was wearing an invisibility cloak and thought he could hide. Not knowing what the outcome would be - l didn't feel like having to clean out the chicken house, all the eggs, myself and anything else that would "take a beating" in this scenario. At that rate we just bolted out of there as fast as we could. Because this probably was gonna be a nightmare no matter how you looked at it. I envisioned one animal biting another, chickens squawking and flying everywhere, us getting bit and sprayed, our eyes gouged out by chicken claws, while eggs broke over our heads cuz we couldn't breathe after tons of skunk spray! Plus somehow being "tarred and feathered" as well. All this going on in my head in a nano-second! _(Did l mention the part like in every cartoon where you step on the rake and it flies up and hits you in the forehead????)_ Nonetheless in the end that huge bear of a raccoon took out every chicken. And we decided not to have any again for quite a while. Because we had to calm the situation down. We did talk to several "experts" who told us _"it's very rare for a raccoon to actually take out a live chicken. That they usually just go for the eggs"_ 🤓🗣💩 And I answered and said "Really? This big guy had a chicken buffet every night and had no problem tossing off one plate for a new one!" Was quite sad and very shocking - _so I know what you're going through~_ 😥

Oh hun how awful 😢

Sad about the chickens do,you use a live cage trap we do,it seems to work well. Sorry about the girls but glad you and Adele are safe and ok, Ali 🌞🥶🇨🇦

Oh no now only two chickens? Worked out what’s getting to them yet?

Hope you survived it mate stil blowing a gale here we have had alot of damage

An A24 rat trap does weasels as well as rats. Both are invasive species in NZ, and that's where the trap originates.

That was from 2021. Where's the new video?

Stoat. Unless the run is 100% predator proof you will always end up loosing them. We are just building a 3m x 4m roofed run, it will be metal frame on a slab floor with mesh so small even fat mice wont get through. I can't imagine leaving them open to predators. Difficult and expensive with much larger run I know but less heart ache and effort in the long run than constantly trying to catch predators who are always present no matter how many you kill. We had a mink attack a few weeks ago. The chickens were fine as it couldn't get in, however the run and coop is small but well defended. We only have 2 and want a few more hence the bigger run to give them more space. A weasel's skull is tiny but 19mm square mesh should stop anything bigger than mice, which occasionally get stuck in it. A ring camera if you are keeping them in the back garden is how we saw the mink, a useful warning device to let you know what predators are about so you can take extra care checking whats happening.

Hopefully people will heed your advice and go and buy second hand old but quality tools and clean them up, better than the modern rubbish and still years of work left in them. Very good advice mate 👍

Weasel?

Whatever it is shag, with you on its trail I'm sure its not long for this world!

When you were tapping the aluminum case, it could make a good dinner bell. Anyway, running these on low speed or low heat will cause the buildup of carbon. Try running it on high for an hour each day to burn off the carbon.

Can you please share the link for the pneumatic pole . Thanks

Beautiful view and Happy birds!

Hi, new subscriber here! That’s too bad, I know how that feels. Could it be a weasel? We had an incident last year very familiar.

I had the same issue. The E08 error code isn’t all that accurate. It wasn’t a fuel issue in my case. Some time ago I extended the exhaust pipe by about 4’ It all went well for a while and then flame out with heaps of smoke. I took the exhaust off and it was full of black liquid. My theory is that condensation forms in the pipe as the hot air cools on the extended pipe eventually restricting air flow. Returned the pipe to its original length problem solved. Haven’t had a problem since.

pine martin

Great! Just show the maintenance minutes.

Oh lord Shaun that stinks 😢😢. Could it be a weasel getting in that fricking sucks. I’m trapping them regularly here just because we don’t want them chewing things in the shed and vehicles. Good luck 🤞, Ali 🥶🇨🇦

Good man Shawn I know they are appreciative 👍👍, Ali ☔️🥶🇨🇦

How much does it cost to feed the birds ? Tuppence a bag ? I wish ! We spend a fortune on bird feed. For example 1kg of peanuts costs €4.65. And we've got 8 different feeders and a bird table. They get peanuts, mixed seeds, sunflower seeds, fatballs and mealworms. I have to make do with a small bowl of gruel and a chunk of stale bread.

It's not a fox, if it was then it would have killed all the chickens. A fox could get over a fence that high, just about, but your with your fence its feet would go through the wire mesh and it wouldn't be able to climb. From how you describe the dead chicken I would say it's most likely a pine marten or if you don't have those in your area then as you mentioned possibly a weasel or a stoat. They are crafty little gits and if there is the slightest chance of getting in then they will and when they have been in once there's a good chance that they will come back. I can't advise you how to catch one but I'm sure that the right bait in a rat trap will work, there must be some vids out there that can help.

Sending luv n hugs to you both.. Hope you win the war and sort Sweet.

_You get snow...???_ ☹️❄️🥴❄️😱❄️🥶❄️

Great presentation ,I understood the issue as you described.Thanks very much.

Sorry 😞 you’re still having back problems. I find cold damp days make it worse 😢. Have a super week great update as always 👍👍, Ali 🥶☔️🇨🇦

Hi Shaun hope you both are well,Sorry to hear you’re back is still playing up. Great tutorial, keep up the good work mate. Chat soon.👍🏻

Every time I fill my diesel tank (not the one on the heater but the one I use to purchase the fuel) I add a capful of Klean-flo diesel conditioner. I then shake to mix before filling my heater tank. The conditioner significantly reduces the smoke on start-up and the amount of soot produced by the system. For those who put their tanks outdoors, it also prevents the fuel from gelling in very cold weather..

🤦‍♀️ don’t know what to,syntactically won’t get me banned 😂😂 but I definitely agree it’s all 💩💩 now. Keep warm, Ali 🥶🇨🇦

You do love your chinesium products lol. Copper coated wire ! Jesus, I never knew they did that but not at all surprised. There seems to be no depths to which they won't go to con people with cheap tat. R-soles !