Well the breeding season is finally here and we will soon be collecting our first hatching eggs, some of the first eggs will be Buff Sussex, Jubilee Orpingtons, Welsummer, Barred Plymouth Rock and Indian Game with Light Sussex, Speckled Sussex, Blue Orpington, Buff Orpington, Splash Orpington and White Wyandottes to follow later next month as its so early anybody looking for eggs we would ask you to wait a month or so , so we can check the fertility of our eggs. We will be putting eggs in our...

Nothern Fowl Mite
The northern fowl mite has been shown to cause economic damage on poultry by causing anemia, lower egg production and even death to birds. Also of considerable importance, the mites will bite man (egg handlers) causing itching and irritation to the skin.

Life Cycle

There are 4 stages in the mite life cycle--egg, larva, nymph, and adult. The adult female mite lays eggs on the host bird. Depending on the temperature and humidity, the eggs will hatch in 1 to 2 days. The larva...

New pages up and running are the buy and sell section , coming soon pages keeping people up to date on the work and breeds coming up also we have a load of photo's to add to the gallery page. And the projects page will be updated as soon as I get a chance . Please keep the e-mails coming  we are happy to help in any way we can. This year we will be breeding a small amount of birds as we will be trying new lines and also some new cockeral so we should see some lovely birds emerging in 2010 als...

05/01/10

A new year a new begining ! . A cold start to hopefully what will be a better year weather wise than 2009. Our early hatched breeders from last year have been laying right through the winter keeping us well stock up with eggs while some of our older birds were going through the annual molt . If you are keeping back birds for breeding for next year it is best to keep them from birds hatched in February and March as these birds tend to grow bigger than those hatched later in the year ...

02/11/09

Today we started to give the website an overhaul badly needed to bring every thing up to date , this should be finnished by the 14th of December all going well. Yesterday with the bad rain gave me time to finnish a small broody coop which I started last week below is the picture of the ark finnished , it is designed for a broody hen and chicks easy to move and very light.

Keeping poultry is a lot of fun but as winter approaches, it's important for poultry keepers to think ahead a little. Whilst it seems a long way off yet, winter can be a very difficult time for us. With the cold, dark mornings and dark evenings, many of us may be opening the chicken house before work in the dark and closing it when we get home in the dark. There is no better time than now to start thinking about carrying out any repairs to your hen house and run for winter or like us many bre...