A New Year

January 20, 2010

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 more about this will be posted up as soon as I get a chance. We have just installed a new automatic drinking system in our rearing sheds which will cut down on filling up the drinkers all the time also it will supply the chicks with fresh water. The website has been updated a bit with pictures and also some new breeds were added more to come on this over the next few days 

 

Overhaul

January 20, 2010


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.


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Winter Preperation

January 20, 2010

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...


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