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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46054 Location: yes
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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dpack
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gythagirl
Joined: 18 Feb 2010 Posts: 1467 Location: Somerset
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 18 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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And from the article on Queen Victoria's Hen Palace,
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The laying nests at Windsor are composed of dry twigs of heather—the Erica tetralix of our heaths—and small brambles of hawthorn, covered over with the lichen raugiferinus—the white lichen of our hedges, barn-doors, and park palings.
These materials, rubbed together, by the motion and. pressure of the hen, emitted a light powder, the produce of the crushed leaves; and this, finding its way, between the feathers, to the skin, was found to have the immediate effect of discharging the bird of every description of parasite. |
Red mite, be gone - sadly I have no heather in my garden. |
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dpack
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Fee
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