In this Issue

	Indian (Runner Ducks) Summer
	Oregani-al Idea (pun intended)
	Egg-static Chickens (had to be done)
	Honey I'm Home!
	Winter is Coming ...
	Red Mite, Dead Mite
	Our Flock

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Indian (Runner Ducks) Summer

As 'the Summer to remember' fades into autumn, the Niagara-like volumes of water we have all endured falling from the sky recently, even here in sunny Dorset, has sent the local ducks into a cacophony of quacking excitement but left the rest of us, and the chickens, feeling a little bit soggy and run down. Of course, liberal servings of tea and coffee get us through these damp patches, but we’ve got just the tonic, and some brilliant deals, to get your chickens through these “damp” autumn blues.

Whilst plenty of liquid sunshine is falling on our heads, feeling under the weather can lead to unhappy girls. To perk them up all Life Guard Tonic has 20% off in October. Life Guard’s special formula will put the sunshine and spring back in their step. It will help your girls keep a healthy immune system, improve gut flora and keep their feathers in tip-top condition, especially important as we enter the moulting season. You’ll see the effect this little added boost will give your chickens as they charge out into the rain, table tennis bats in hand, to marshal the ducks on to the pond.

As we approach moulting time, Total Moulting Solution from Net-Tex is a great little supplement for your shivering ladies. Bursting with protein (the essential ingredient for the growing new feathers), it will keep your flock happy during an uncomfortable and no doubt humiliating time.  As if the prospect of losing their skirts, and feeling a bit down was depressing enough, nobody wants to catch a cold - I’ve been dodging sneezes and handing out tissues all week - you could try Oreganico, a wonderful new Flyte so Fancy tonic (more details below), which is like chicken Calpol and will scare those rattles and sneezes away.

And as the more prepared of us look towards Christmas (where did that year go?) don’t forget to check out our winter care pages on the Flyte so Fancy website to make sure you are fully stocked for whatever Jack Frost throws at us this year.

Oregani-al Idea (pun intended)

As we move out of summer and into autumn, you might not have noticed the change this year (yet!), but we all begin to feel in need of a 'bit of a boost'. Well, look no further than our NEW ‘effective and economical’ Oreganico from Flyte so Fancy. A natural alternative to 'doping' up our beloved girls with those worrisome antibiotics. This sniffle-solving super-tonic is suitable for both chickens and game birds; it boosts their immune system to help them easily fight off infections and disease, from Avian flu to E-coli.

Oreganico is a natural solution of 5% oregano and essential oils which are well-known for their amazing anti-microbial and astonishing anti-oxidant properties. We are so pleased with Oreganico that, to do it justice, we think we will have to start saving the biscuit tin money to put out a M&S style TV advert. As simple as adding it to your flocks drinking water, a little goes a long way as they say, half a teaspoon per 5 litres of water, Oreganico from Flyte so Fancy is there to keep your ladies winter-fit and give you peace of mind.

Egg-static Chickens (had to be done)

After an extended presentation on egg productivity by Phill last week caused a mass walk out of the resident Flyte so Fancy chickens, it took all of Anne’s powers of persuasion to get them back into their nest boxes. The chickens’ insistence that Phill’s latest targets for egg production were untenable (despite the many graphs and pie charts he put them in), has led to another inspired idea from Anne.

Egg Boxes in small packs of 30.

Coming in everyone’s favourite pink, through economy blue and green and onto grey, it’s the amount of egg boxes to keep both you and your chickens happy.  No more chickens baulking at the sheer number of egg boxes they’ve got to fill. Easily stored, easily filled, easily enjoyed.

Also on a special offer, until December, specially for those planning Christmas Gifts already, are packs of 30 egg boxes with 30 non-personalised labels, for that stocking-filler or tricky-to-buy-for friend.

Picket lines have been lifted here at Flyte so Fancy and our girls are happily back to work. To keep them 'on target' we now have Pre-printed Free Range Egg Boxes so that your chickens' hard work at making all those delicious free range eggs gets the full credit they deserve. Showing all the vital egg printing information needed for the intrepid egg seller, such as farming method or point of origin, these boxes are charmingly and intelligently decorated. They’ve “never had it so good”.

Now, if only we could get Phill to stop his “motivating” lectures to the chickens, and bring himself and the office whiteboard back in out of the rain, we need to get some work done too.

Honey I'm Home!

One pleasant evening while enjoying a well earned Pimms, and watching the last of summer’s sunbeams disappearing over the Blackmore Vale hills, we spied some busy bees still industrially working away on the flower beds. Feeling that their hard work in keeping the flowers at Flyte so Fancy, and all over the country, looking so pretty despite the lack of summer, merited a reward, we have commissioned two lovely new labels just for that purpose.

With the same eye for quality and design that we put to our charming egg boxes labels, these labels for your honey pots are enough to make even Pooh Bear stop and have a look before he dives in. With a choice between an image of a ‘buzzy’ Bee (sorry, had to put that it somewhere) or a lone industrious Bee, both of these gorgeous designs are available on clotted cream or white adhesive labels and the perfect finish to pots or jars for all that 'free range' honey.

Anyone who has sent their enthusiastic offspring, and one responsible adult out (Phill somewhat filling this role in our house), armed with empty ice cream tubs, and firm instructions to bring back as many blackberries, sloes or anything else that grows on our country hedgerows, only to have them return with most of the promised bounty around their faces, knows that it is jam and preserves season. As such, here at Flyte so Fancy, we are working on some new ‘delicious’ labels to grace your jam, chutney and pickle jars. We will be adding them to our ever increasing range of scrummy personalised labels just as soon as the family returns with a decent haul of blackberries!

Winter is Coming ...

The benefits of having highly skilled craftsmen and carpenters came into its own once again here at Flyte so Fancy when Anne pointed out to Phill, several months ago, that the tarpaulin currently strung between four bits of wood was hardly adequate to keep the wood for the fire dry, and therefore all us of here at optimum toastiness, throughout winter. Taking the criticism as stoically as any married man would, the design papers came out and the workshop became an orchestra of noise and sawdust, with Phill conducting it all.

The result; I am now able to tell you all about our new, stylishly practical, and sturdily built log stores. Our new website dorsetlogstores.co.uk is up and running and ready for business. It is packed full of tidbits on buying, storing and the eventual burning of your logs. Built with pressure-treated timbers and finished in a slate, timber or cedar shingles roof option; all the quality, solid construction and clever design that we put towards our chicken houses is now embodied in these log stores. Designed with a 19mm gap (that’s 3/4” in old money) for essential airflow, and a roof designed to shed the rain and shelter your stock, the firewood will be dry in no time. Coming in a myriad sizes and shapes to fit in any garden or on a patio, we have the wood storage solution for your needs and to prevent soggy-log syndrome. The optional extras of a partition, cupboard or shelves, mean that even your wellies and axe have somewhere equally dry to live.

No matter the size, style, practicality or optional extra, all of our new range of log stores are enthused with that sense of rural idolism and beauty that we are lucky enough to have here on our doorstep.

As if this wasn’t enough to warm the cockles of your heart by itself anything ordered from dorsetlogstores.co.uk currently offers free delivery (to most UK mainland destinations).

Red Mite, Dead Mite

This recent damp, yet still warm, spell of weather has led to Anne and the office team speaking to many of you  during the last few weeks, as you phone up to find out the best way to annihilate the pesky swarm of red mite that plagues the henhouse in this sort of weather.

Whether it’s the knockout combo of Poultry Shield and Diatom taking on the little bloodsuckers and keeping them at bay week in week out, or if you’ve moved onto advanced chemical warfare on the ensuing horde with the Poultry Keeper Mini and Midi fumers, our wide range of mite eradicating products will see your arthropod problems running off as quick as their many legs will carry them.

Dont forget to take a look at our Red Mite in Chicken Houses page for information on how to get rid of this menace.

Our Flock

After some heated words between the Rob-the-gardener and the Workshop team, on whose fingers were greener, led to the launching of the 1st Annual Flyte so Fancy Sunflower Competition way back in May, (before we had that ‘hottest summer on record’) the excitement here has been palpable.

Some members of the team though, not content with the humdrum of sunflower growing, left their stations and went out into the world in search of novelty, excitement and to see what these Olympic thingys were all about.

Our very own Lizzy (right) put all that Red Cross Training to good use and spent an exhilarating two weeks down at the Olympic Sailing venue in Weymouth, only 20 miles from our front door, tending those in need of TLC and an elastoplast. Completely caught up in the spirit of the Olympics (weren’t we all?), she certainly would have won the gold medal for enthusiasm. And as her explosive excitement has yet to wane; her sights are set on Rio.

Caroline (left), never one to rest on her laurels, and no doubt inspired by the recent events felt the need to add another title, to her already impressive array of Archery Championships, by winning the English Field Archery Association Championships. A beautiful, shiny medal, worthy of the recent events, was displayed proudly to all. Congratualtions Caroline!

We have also added a new member to our gaggle here at Flyte so Fancy. Feeling the sudden urge to pass on everything we know on designing chicken houses and keeping perfectly contented chickens...  our new apprentice, Kieran (centre of course), is now busy down in the workshop learning how to build our lovely chicken houses and having his ear bent on subjects as ranging as scaly leg to the many uses of mixed grit. With his teenage predilection to describe all things, no matter how astounding, as ‘alright’ he is a happy and hardworking new member to the team.

I have been asked to add, by our Operations Manager Rich, that he won the sunflower competition with a goliath sunflower measuring 1.6m. A victory we certainly won’t be allowed to forget very soon I am sure.