Tag: free range
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Three new chooks
By chance, Miss found out that the local farm shop had some ‘Point of Lay’ chickens for sale and we picked up three new girls on Saturday. We now have two Marans – our original Speckledy from 2005 and a new Basic Marans, the two Welsummers from 2007 and two new White Sussex. The picture […]
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So, chicken feed… pretty tasty stuff eh?
It’s becoming a problem… not a big problem, but a problem. The local wild birds are eating the chicken feed faster than the chickens. I don’t honestly mind; after all we have seed feeders all over the back garden and it would seem daft to worry about a handful of layers pellets getting devoured in […]
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Lawn? What lawn?
A friend recently asked me how the chickens had done over winter, and particularly what state the grass was in? Grass of course tends to go dormant during the colder months and doesn’t grow back if heavily scratched and pecked at by inquisitive chooks. His reason for asking was that his family were considering taking […]
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A day in the life
What a strange day! This morning we found one of the chickens with a badly infected foot – probably the result of a previous mite attack gone bad. I decided she was not going to recover, which meant I had to provide the assistance into her next cycle. Only the second girl I’ve had to […]
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Hugh’s Chicken Run
DOCUMENTARY: Hugh’s Chicken Run On: Channel 4 (4) Date: Monday 7th January 2008 Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long) An anytime alert is set for 15 minutes before the programme starts Hugh’s Chicken Run launches the The Big Food Fight, a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food […]
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one of them late night question things…
Just brought half a dozen eggs in amongst the weekly shop, since our five girls have stopped laying for the winter. The thought occurs to me, how come there are so many boxes of local ‘free range’ eggs available? Since my ladies are not laying, due to the season, the lack of sunlight and the cold, […]
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