CHICKENS

[craigyboy 1,274]

ive just got a couple of blue rangers,theyre very placid and pale grey and they lay around 270 brown eggs a year and a couple of blackrocks which is a prolific layer of large brown eggs around 300 they are very docile birds and dont mind being handled

[Wink 1]

anyone know where i can get some xbatteries in hampshire or delivered?

 

 

Just google ex battery hens and you will find your local distribution centre.

Wink

[Ideation 8,216]

I'd go for light sussex.

[trapperman 474]

 

Light sussex, for me

[DUCKWING 302]

TRAPPERMAN ,

 

LONG GRASS = DEAD CHICKS IN WET WEATHER

 

I PREFER TO PEN THE CLOCKER AND CHICKS AT AN EARLY AGE ...

USUALLY AN ARK TYPE PEN WHICH IS LIFTED UP AT THE FRONT ALLOWING THE CHICKS TO ROAM A SHORT WAYS FROM THE PEN

 

BUT ................ KEEPING THE CLOCKER FROM DRAGGING THE CHICKS ALL OVER .......

 

IN WET WEATHER YOUR LOSSES WILL BE HIGH DUE TO THEM CHILLING IN WET GRASS ....... SOME HENS ARE CONSTANTLY DRAGGING THE BROOD ALL OVER

 

 

ALL THE BEST

 

 

DUCKWING

[trapperman 474]

those pics were from last year, i have a broody sitting now for the first for this year, i had 22 chicks in the brood in the pics, all of them and another 20 adult hens were taken by a vixen with cubs about may/june during the day .

 

she and the cubs were shot by my neighbering sheep farmer about a week later.

 

so i start this year with only 6 hens 2 cocks, time to make up the numbers this year me thinks.