as promised, here are pictures of our ‘chicks’ - they are about 3/4 size of the other hens. They are now 12 weeks old (makes you think about the rate those intensively farmed hens grow eh?)
They are supposed to be marans, and two black ones look like it.. but the golden browney one doesn’t much.
what [...]
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chick pics
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, chicks on 1 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
no eggs
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, tagged chickens, eggs on 25 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Egg production has slowed down dramatically, which is annoying given the amount of food eaten. The copper headed marans, pretty birds though they are, and beautiful dark brown eggs, are really not the best of layers. The cream legbar is pretty good actually, but has the occasional day off, and the buff leghorn is sitting [...]
eggs by post
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 [...]
broody again
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 [...]
grown up chicks
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, eggs, chicks 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 [...]
egg skelter
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 [...]
in search of perfect
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 [...]
stupid chickens - stupid people
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 [...]
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