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Breeds For 2011 Season

Posted by Glen Pearson on Sunday, February 6, 2011, In : Updates from Luggacurren Poultry 
The Breeds for this year are,

White Orpingtons, Buff Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, White Wyandotte, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Black Minorca's, Partridge Welsummer, Silver DuckWing Welsummer,Light Sussex and Buff Sussex all large Fowl

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A Quick Update

Posted by Glen Pearson on Saturday, June 12, 2010, In : Updates from Luggacurren Poultry 

Hi,

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...


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Chicks and young birds

Posted by Glen Pearson on Thursday, April 29, 2010, In : Updates from Luggacurren Poultry 

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...


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General Chit Chat

Posted by Glen Pearson on Thursday, February 18, 2010, In : Updates from Luggacurren Poultry 
Hi all, we have set our first batch of eggs from pens 1 to 4  to test fertility so all going well we will know this day next week if fertility is good. The grass in the runs has benefitted from the bird manure put on it from late last year giving the grass the much needed food for the winter. We have treated the houses again before we took them back out of the shed, where they were stored over the winter. We have to make some new gates for some new runs this week to make room for some new bre...
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