Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 12 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘eggs eh?’ said postie this morning ‘yeh’ I said, broody hen you know’ . knowing look from postie… ‘ahhh….’ and a nod
Eggs arrived safe and sound.. well they look it, and after letting them settle for a bit, we slipped them under our broody, who wriggled about and carried on sitting. Fingers crossed.
Funny thing since [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, eggs on 7 June 2008 | No Comments »
no not me- but our buff leghorn hen has given us an egg every day for the past three weeks, once she started laying again after rearing her brood, and is now sitting again. Is it too soon after the last batch? I am inclined to think not, as she has regained her health, and [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, chicks, eggs on 16 May 2008 | No Comments »
We opened up the broody coup a couple of days ago, and the hen and her three chicks, now six weeks old, rushed out into the big wide world. The grass is long and the chicks can hide completely in it!. They are not so much chicks now as chick-hens (guess that’s where the word comes [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, tagged chickens, eggs on 12 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another new toy and yes this one was a bit indulgent.. but the egg skelter is so cool, it had to be done.
What a good idea - the eggs are arranged in the order they were laid.. so you eat them in the right order..
take the bottom egg and the rest all roll down; it’s [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged eggs on 1 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the best things about growing your own food, is that you get the truth about food, not the perfect unblemished versions the shops would have you believe in. I thought of this today when I collected the eggs, and found a very long and pointy egg. The hen that was not laying has [...]
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, tagged chickens on 24 April 2008 | No Comments »
Despite Stoney pointing out that chickens are better at numeracy than sheep.. they are still stupid.
We have 4 hens… one is brooding her chicks, and one is not laying (and if she keeps this up.. the word ‘casserole’ might be mentioned a bit more), so that leaves us with two hens laying eggs. In the [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged chickens; chicks; sheep; lambs on 20 April 2008 | No Comments »
Stunning how fast Rogan is growing.. mind you he has all the milk to himself, and is eating grass and vegetation now. It’s a real shame he does not have any other lambs to play with.. shame for Sharona his mum too.. as he has to jump on and harrass her! Today he was happy [...]
Posted in chickens, livestock, tagged chickens on 6 April 2008 | No Comments »
Chicks are prey to so many. Crows will take them, rats will have them. We are trying our best.. they are with their mother hen, and the run is covered with cloth netting.. keeping the jackdaws and crows out. They are in a broody coup inside the run, so double protection.
Our cat is hunting them. [...]
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