TassieDev wrote:I'll be watching this thread with great interest and making notes as i don't think there's a vegetable I haven't failed with yet

Well I was thinking the same!

At home we used to have just butter. Some people have butter and jam. In the north of England they call them pikelets. Then there's muffins but I think they are something different, but until recently they were a sort of bread rather than a cake (but now we get American style muffins, which I would ...

I've once had a little egg and another the same day, from hens just starting to lay, I assumed they were laying at less than 24 hours rather than slightly more like they usually do. Never (that I know) had 1 hen lay 2 at the same time. I should think they would be the same temperature, as she was si...

4 crumpets is a bit excessive Richard. The other cheesy thing I like (well, anything with cheese) is pancakes. Cook one side, flip over, put loads of grated cheese on. Lid on pan and wait till cheese is melted when the other side will be cooked. I get through a lot of cheese if making these for me a...

As well as the logos from soil association, RSPCA etc. we have laws about food labelling, e.g. those that melons quoted for free range eggs. Snag is people may not keep to them and the Trading Standards Officers can't be everywhere. Also people don't always know what they are buying e.g. there is a ...

Same if you buy a roasting chicken There's cheap and nasty (sorry, Farm Fresh) Corn Fed (i.e battery hens again) Free range Free range corn fed Free range with trees (or summat) Soil association would be good if you could get it. Maybe there's some out there somewhere, but I shop where I'm passing t...

If you are keeping hens comercially you will have a lot, so they wil be able to go a long way if they want, but still might have only 1 sq m / bird. Actually they often have a big field but stay near the shed, all crowded together. I call mine 'garden eggs' and say they are 'some are more free range...

My book said 4oz / day for free range. Thats less than130g.

I agree that to sell Organic eggs the feed needs to be organic. In fact if you buy eggs labeled organic that is all you get unless they also have a soil association label - just battery hens fed on organically grown feed. I couldn't find the soil association standards on their website, but I've seen...

They still dig holes in the grass.

Mine are in a run made of 4' net with flexible posts with a prong that you treadinto the ground like this . It costs about £70 for a 50metre roll which makes a big run, and I move it every couple of weeks (ish). If you want it electric it comes to over £200. It would be simple to move it around a ...

He claims to be a vegetarian but eats fresh roadkill as it hasn't been factory farmed, it lived free and died quick.
Like that pheasant in our lane yesterday.

Last year I found some big horse mushrooms on the verge. Collected the spores and planted them, along with a few that were past it. This year, up they came. The size of a small tea-plate. Have had 4 so far. (eaten 1, it lasted me ages; given 2 away, the other shrivelled while I was finishing the fir...

Welcome.
Strangely enough one of mine was out in the run squawking at about 6.30 last night when all the others were tucked up in bed. But then your drama happened at 6.30 GMT and it's dark by then up here in the NW.

Yes, I had 3 at first and was overwhelmed with eggs, but if one goes broody and one is moulting, then suddenly eggs are rationed.

Maybe the answer is 2 doz hens and lots of customers.