Yesterday we moved some of the hens around. Brown-neck, who was with her two chicks came out of the growers coup – and settled back in with the main crowd straight away, without so much as a backward glance at her charges.
Then we threw the three girls we are definitely keeping out of the ‘cockerel [...]
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new pullets on the block
Posted in chickens, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens on 25 November 2009 | 2 Comments »
This morning was ghastly – so much rain for so long. Still, count our blessings etc, the house was dry.
The hens were not amused at all though, and I could see their point as the hen run was underwater. The nice dust bath they had dug under the ark shelter was a pond.. it is [...]
waiting for rain
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 15 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
The forecast had given dire warnings of heavy rain for today, so it was with surprise that we woke up to sunshine. We rushed out to make the most of it before the rain came – and that is how the day went.
Himself finished digging over veg bed 8 (only 8 more to go then!), [...]
reducing the chicken numbers
Posted in chickens, livestock on 9 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the weekend, we killed one of the laying hens, and the first of the cockerels from our growers. Quite a contrast in size!
The growers are sixteen weeks old, so a little young to kill for eating, but the exchequer leghorn cockerels have been mature for some time now, and the three of them hooting [...]
is it worth it?
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding on 14 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
When raising animals for food, and eggs, or growing veg, it always has to be questioned whether it is actually worth it, financially and effortwise.
Well I think it is on many levels.
Financially, it is. But it depends what you take into account – I have seen so many times the question on a forum; “how [...]
cream of legbar soup
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency on 8 October 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well the hens are definitely slowing down for winter – most are in a moult, and we are only getting three eggs a day. The good girls still laying are the two hybrids we bought last year – a Columbian blacktail and a blue maran, and one of the girls we raised in the spring [...]
14 in the cockerel run
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, chicks on 28 September 2009 | 9 Comments »
We recently moved the 14 ‘chicks’ into the cockerel run, and they are having a whale of a time – they have their old home, the growers coup in there too at the mo, and they like to perch on the top of it, they are dust bathing, flying and generally doing what chickens do.
It’s [...]
animal husbandry day
Posted in chickens, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding on 20 September 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today we killed and dressed and jointed the three cockerels, which are nearly 19 weeks (I miscalculated before) – a little early but two of them were crowing so much it was bothering me, nevermind the neighbours (who have not complained yet, and we would like it to stay that way!). A little skinny but not [...]
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