luggacurrenPoultry

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So now we are well in to June and we have growers taking up 4 pens now and we have turkey poults and some crosses we bred for our freezer all doing well. We hope that this year we will have enough chicken to supply our own table as well as eggs and we have also put a large amount of time into our veggie patch . Keeping us and the hens with plenty of greens. Between here and my work in the fire service I have been very busy so apologies for some of the late e-mails I have caught up on the...

Hi , we have been very busy over the last few months and have not been able to put time aside to update the site that often. But now we have gotten back on track and are looking forward to getting back to our old routine . I have had lots of help with looking after our chicks from my daughter as she loves feeding and changing the water in the chicks every day before and after school. We currently have around 200 chicks varying in age from dayolds to 4 wks . We have hatched alot more this year...

Today will see some new birds arriving in from the UK these are breeding stock from some very good breeders based in England and Wales. Birds arriving today are Speckled Sussex, Buff Sussex and Light Sussex these will add some good new blood to our breeing program for this year they will be kept seperated for 2 weeks and given a wormer and a high end antibiotic to be on the safe side. We have housing ready for these birds that is well away from our current breeders for now untill we are sure ...

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 ...