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Re: stolen chickensNo we never found them are pen is now locked and alarmed.
Re: anybody else got this wee problem dog eating pelletsI have a cat called Monkey who loves eating layers pellets she hasn't started laying yet either.
Re: does anyone make a living, keeping chickens?Yes my place has always been a smallholding it is 100 years old and was the farm house then they sold some of the land off and 3 more houses were built which are all smallholdings. Every one here has chickens cockerals and other animals.
Re: does anyone make a living, keeping chickens?My place is a smallholding so no prob with the council the local allotments have some off my chicken poo the rest i use on my veg plot the waste straw is easy to burn noise is not a problem so i can have holiday cockerals where you might have to say no cockerals advetise in all your local freeads on...
Re: does anyone make a living, keeping chickens?I am just starting my second year of my henery i have all ready got a lot of booking's for this year quiet a few are retuning hens i have never been asked about what food i use. I have only had 1 person bring there own food and that was they rang me to see if i new any one who would look after her d...
Re: does anyone make a living, keeping chickens?I always ask the owners wishes on drop off if there girls become sick do they want me to take them to my vets or isolate them and keep an eye on them if they get to ill do they want the vet to put them to sleep or do they want me to do it it seems to be 50 50 on vets. I always take a contact phone n...
Re: does anyone make a living, keeping chickens?Last year was our first year of holiday boarding we had a lot of problems with mud so for this year we are putting a concrete slab down and building the pens back up and we will use staw on the concrete so the can root around. We had wooden houses last year which were hard to keep clean so this year...
Re: does anyone make a living, keeping chickens?We have 2 houses we rent out so that pays the bills but I sell eating eggs fertile eggs hatch my own chicks and sell them at point of lay and I do chicken boarding. We all so have 4 pigs each year for meat for us and we sell the pork to make ours free and we grow are veg and OH make's and sells craf...
Re: stolen chickensJust had a phone call from a friend who is a breeder he has had all his pure breds stolen last night. He has some chickens in his garden and some on a plot of land he rents all the pure breds on the plot of land have gone. Please every one make sure your girls are locked up at night because if it is...
Re: stolen chickensEvery noise we heard last night we were up checking the girls hubby has put up security lights on every corner locks on the girls run's and he is going to put a camera up told the local beat officer he said there have been a few more thefts of birds and equipment in our area always pure breds and al...
Re: stolen chickensWe are about 5 miles from Gatwick airport,
Re: stolen chickensThey were kept in the garden in a row of 5 pens and in this pen there where 10 girls they took 4 they closed the hen house back up and shut the pen. Hubby heard a noise last night and got up and walked round the garden but couldn't see anything but we have a big garden with a lot of tree and bush co...
stolen chickensI am so cross some one has got into 1 of my pens and stolen 3 silver laced wyandottes and 1 plymouth rock they were all 12 weeks old and i hatched them. Who ever took them new what they were doing because they have only taken the pure breed's so going to step up security. Just hope were ever they ar...
Re: Chicken 'Kennels'We do chicken boarding we are no where near you but seach chicken boarding or we call our's a Hennery.
Re: Breeding chickens for food...I breed chickens to point of lay and sell them i also have my own flock which i sell there eggs the cockrels freerange and when they are big enough we dipatch them and eat them i can't eat super market meat we also fatten 4 pigs each year for pork we sell the pork from 2 pigs and eat the rest i hate...
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