27-04-2011, 10:26
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Hmmm. I stand corrected.
I'd never realised that they use the same shared exit. But then again I've never spent a lot of time staring at chicken's bottoms.
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27-04-2011, 10:34
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Re: Cluck Cluck
Or paid attention in Biology lessons at school? 
(I didn't know, I was just being flippant  )
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27-04-2011, 10:59
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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I now know more about chickens than I ever wanted to...
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27-04-2011, 11:00
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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Or paid attention in Biology lessons at school?
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and you were more right than you knew it seems.
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I now know more about chickens than I ever wanted to...
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14-05-2011, 11:57
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Re: Cluck Cluck
Update....
Since the chickens started to lay, on easter monday, weve been getting roughly 4-6 eggs per day.
Yesterday we had 6 eggs, but one broke. I dont think one of them is eating enough grit.
Even so, we have so many eggs that we dont know what to do with them all
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14-05-2011, 13:41
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Pickled eggs!
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14-05-2011, 13:48
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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I thought putting eggs in with the hens was just to help if one was broody?
It sounds as though you will just have to cultivate a little patience along with all the veggies you are now growing. In a few months I can see us giving you ways of using all the surplus eggs. |
Told you so. Get yourself some packaging and give a few away as gifts to visitors.
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14-05-2011, 14:02
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Yep thats what we do, when we get too many. How many chickens have you got then?
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14-05-2011, 14:21
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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Told you so. Get yourself some packaging and give a few away as gifts to visitors. |
Excellent idea.
I don't keep hens but I do the same with garden produce. It is always welcome and the recipients appreciate the thought and attention - I do tend to focus on the elderly, lonely, infirm around me and even people I can't stand the sight of
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14-05-2011, 14:30
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got 4 chicks all together.
i dunno about pickled eggs, thats a bit of an aquired taste. lol
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14-05-2011, 14:46
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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got 4 chicks all together.
i dunno about pickled eggs, thats a bit of an aquired taste. lol
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Make frittata - you can chuck whatever you like in it. Bacon, potato, spring onion, tomato, cheese, herbs, seasoning etc. A bit of salad and crusty bread and there you go
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14-05-2011, 15:07
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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Update....
Since the chickens started to lay, on easter monday, weve been getting roughly 4-6 eggs per day.
Yesterday we had 6 eggs, but one broke. I dont think one of them is eating enough grit.
Even so, we have so many eggs that we dont know what to do with them all
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I think that's great news for you .I know you have put a lot of hard work into this and am pleased it's working for you ,all you need now is for some busybody to complain and a jobsworth from the council to start quoting rules and 300yr old by laws .Personaly i think more people should do this sort of thing .All of my grandparents had chickens/bantams and veggy gardens sadly these days it is very much out of fashion and deemed "unhealthy"by some ,i see it as a way to get nicer more healthy food and a good educational experience for the youngsters
well done that man 
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14-05-2011, 15:23
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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I think that's great news for you .I know you have put a lot of hard work into this and am pleased it's working for you ,all you need now is for some busybody to complain and a jobsworth from the council to start quoting rules and 300yr old by laws .Personaly i think more people should do this sort of thing .All of my grandparents had chickens/bantams and veggy gardens sadly these days it is very much out of fashion and deemed "unhealthy"by some ,i see it as a way to get nicer more healthy food and a good educational experience for the youngsters
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Luckily our neighbours arent too fussy. I dont know why they are deemed unhealthy, I was actually very surprised at how clean chickens were, i mean obviously they poo alot but chicken poo is one of the best manure to use on your plants.
cant vouch for chicken poo manure though as i havent actually used any yet, but i might do this year.
i also dont have a cockrel, they are too noisy, so the locals havent got anything to complain about really, fingers crossed anyway
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14-05-2011, 15:58
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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Luckily our neighbours arent too fussy. I dont know why they are deemed unhealthy, I was actually very surprised at how clean chickens were, i mean obviously they poo alot but chicken poo is one of the best manure to use on your plants.
cant vouch for chicken poo manure though as i havent actually used any yet, but i might do this year.
i also dont have a cockrel, they are too noisy, so the locals havent got anything to complain about really, fingers crossed anyway |
Most fowl are clean ,it is second nature to live in clean surroundings ,and i know from my own experience that chickens are very fussy about the cleanliness of their surroundings
Alot of people i know would deem them unhealthy simply because they are alive and aren't wrapped in cling film  as for an egg with a feather stuck to it god forbid their little darlings should ever touch it
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14-05-2011, 16:12
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Re: Cluck Cluck
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Most fowl are clean ,it is second nature to live in clean surroundings ,and i know from my own experience that chickens are very fussy about the cleanliness of their surroundings
Alot of people i know would deem them unhealthy simply because they are alive and aren't wrapped in cling film as for an egg with a feather stuck to it god forbid their little darlings should ever touch it |
Well ive mostly been a vegetarian most of my life. Theres a special word for it. I'm not a vegetarian as i do like sausages, bacon etc. But i wont eat steak, lamb, pork etc.
I rarely eat chicken, but I do love my Chicken madras from our local asda, they dont do a vegetarian one.
Since getting the chickens ive noticed i dont eat chicken anymore, very rarely nowadays.
I certainly couldnt eat "MY" chickens. I dont know how people can raise their own pigs, chickens, cows, and then eat them.
I mean lets face it, they are part of the family.
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