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- Sunday February 20, 2011
Yep got some hens here too.
we have 3 wrens that we were given last summer only one lays but cant bring myself to cook the other 2, they are all called 1 of 3 cos we still cant tell the difference between them (also the reason we cant cook the other 2 non layers)
we also have a White sussex, about 22 weeks old and lay's a nice light coloured eggs (lighter than the wrens) shes been named snow white, and finally we have a BlueBell called Bell (got to love kids havent you) she started laying just over a week ago, if you want a 3 egg omlette you need about 9 eggs as they are pretty small.
had no problems with foxes but with all the farms round here they proberly have easier pickings else where.
PC keep your shells, I bake them (small tray and bung them in the oven with something else) brake them into very small bits so they cannot be recognised as eggs and stick them in a dish for the chooks to eat, I also give them grit which has oyster chells in it, they need the extra calcium for the egg shells and the grit helps them digest food like corn (bit like a cow I think - the grit grinds the food in the tummy)
they are all more like family than egg makers, if we leave the back door open and they are out we can go into the dining room and there will be a chicken perched on the back of a dinning chair asleep - have just sorted out a temp fence that we pull across the garden if they are out
if anyone is actually interested and not asleep already
here is bluebell.
one of the 1 of 3
and finally Snowwhite and Marley, whom seems to get beaten up by all the chooks, but does grass them up when they sneak next door to steal the cat food
we have 3 wrens that we were given last summer only one lays but cant bring myself to cook the other 2, they are all called 1 of 3 cos we still cant tell the difference between them (also the reason we cant cook the other 2 non layers)
we also have a White sussex, about 22 weeks old and lay's a nice light coloured eggs (lighter than the wrens) shes been named snow white, and finally we have a BlueBell called Bell (got to love kids havent you) she started laying just over a week ago, if you want a 3 egg omlette you need about 9 eggs as they are pretty small.
had no problems with foxes but with all the farms round here they proberly have easier pickings else where.
PC keep your shells, I bake them (small tray and bung them in the oven with something else) brake them into very small bits so they cannot be recognised as eggs and stick them in a dish for the chooks to eat, I also give them grit which has oyster chells in it, they need the extra calcium for the egg shells and the grit helps them digest food like corn (bit like a cow I think - the grit grinds the food in the tummy)
they are all more like family than egg makers, if we leave the back door open and they are out we can go into the dining room and there will be a chicken perched on the back of a dinning chair asleep - have just sorted out a temp fence that we pull across the garden if they are out
if anyone is actually interested and not asleep already
here is bluebell.
one of the 1 of 3
and finally Snowwhite and Marley, whom seems to get beaten up by all the chooks, but does grass them up when they sneak next door to steal the cat food
