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pookie



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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Location: Mid-Wales
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 12 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Light sussex a go go!

Ohh I've never seen lavender leghorns before

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 12 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

These are your chicks full sisters.














Enjoy.

pookie



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 12 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lovely girls!

ninat



Joined: 01 Feb 2009
Posts: 606
Location: Scotland
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 12 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's interesting to see the fencing used on people's set-ups. Does everyone try to rotate their land, or if you don't, do you gather up droppings?
Our hens have a large area which still has plenty of grass, but it's been that way for 6 years now and I feel it's quite stale. I let the hens out for free range once they have laid otherwise I'm searching everywhere and usually the dog finds the eggs first!
Not put anything in the incubator yet- there's often a sting in the tail with winters here.

Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 12 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I havnt room to rotate, but I lime the field (moving the hens for a couple of weeks) once every couple of years. I also keep the grass quite short to let the sunlight in to kill any worm eggs.
I worm 3 times a year, and to be honest havnt had any problems re worms.

pookie



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 12 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I rotate, lots


I don't like them on the same ground, so as I have the land to accommodate constant moving, our pens are like a slow-motion carousel

They are only penned at the moment for breeding purposes, to keep the purity. The rest of the time free range.

We have the turkeys on ground where there have been no chickens penned, certainly for a couple of years.

No worm probs here either.

TTouch Homestead



Joined: 13 Oct 2011
Posts: 703
Location: Cardigan, West Wales
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 12 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I am hoping to rotate once we can get some fencing done. We have one large pen with ponds, that has the general purpose chickens, runner ducks, and my pilgrim geese pair in (just at night).

The compost heap pen, which is now housing the abacot rangers, the guinea's, my two bantam hens and the 9 embden geese (just at night).
The pond and orchard area is split using sheep hurdles as pens, and the embdens and pilgrims are herded into them each morning.

The field, which is home to the 3 runner duck boys 9who should have been bonked on the head but haven't!) 3 goats, 5 ponies and down the bottom, our tamworth sow and her gilt.

Am hoping to create some new pens, in woodland area, and in the field, so they can have a resting pen, and a current pen...
why is it no one tells you that you just don't end up with a few of each- they are very addictive.

Eventually going to concentrate on abacots and pilgrims, keep some heinz57 chickens, and a few runners. BUT don't quote me on that- hehe.

This is vid of first enclosure. have changed it a lot now. More ducks, 2 cockerels and a few more houses!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGP2mbnibg&list=UUjUUN89lZ_CaPelvaAXsjvA&index=6&feature=plcp

Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A few of each? Ha!
I started with 4........

Ive now got at least 90. Ive been teaching poultry keeping for the last 5 years and now show as well. Its highly addictive. Locally, a lot of people know me and I get folk turning up for advice etc, but it floored me recently at a farming event in Okehampton when someone asked 'are you the chicken woman?'.
It will be on my gravestone.......

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Its the bright yellow wellies that you wear and the red Marigold glove on your head that gives it away.

SandraR



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lorrainelovesplants wrote:
A few of each? Ha!
I started with 4........

Ive now got at least 90. Ive been teaching poultry keeping for the last 5 years and now show as well. Its highly addictive. Locally, a lot of people know me and I get folk turning up for advice etc, but it floored me recently at a farming event in Okehampton when someone asked 'are you the chicken woman?'.
It will be on my gravestone.......


My daughter was asked the other day "do you live in the egg house?"

and I'm known by the postmen as the lady who keeps chicks in the garage.



Poultry are far too addictive.

Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not the best photo but one of an Ixworth stag I've raised from bought eggs to go with a couple of hens I purchased at a local rare breeds sale.
He puts all my Light Sussex boys to shame in the breast & drumstick dept.



SandraR



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

He looks good.

I think this post should be locked ..well to me at least. Every breed I see sets me thinking .." now if I had x breed , I could put x here or x there and then I could breed x etc. etc.

Stop no more photos

pookie



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I may have just taken delivery of some black croad langshan bantam eggs

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I understand that some strains of the large fowl of that breed lay an amazing ruby colured egg.

Ty Gwyn



Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4562
Location: Lampeter
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 12 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The Ixworth is very similar to a Wyandotte?

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