keeping chickens in ED

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[Frankito]

Thanks for the clarification, it's now burned in my mind. Learning is fun!

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[legalbeagle]

I have two chickens and a very secure fox proof run. Pet shop on Northcross road will order in layers pellets, btw. Exciting to find so many chicken keepers! Egg production down in my house at the mo as barbara has gone broody......

[Frankito]

And another thing I don't get *cringe* why would Babs stop laying eggs because she is broody? I would have thought the space hopper she popped every day would be enough of a reminder of her maternal instincts! Does she just need to hatch one of the bubba eggs before settling back into battery life?

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legalbeagle Wrote:

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> I have two chickens and a very secure fox proof

> run. Pet shop on Northcross road will order in

> layers pellets, btw. Exciting to find so many

> chicken keepers! Egg production down in my house

> at the mo as barbara has gone broody......

how do you manage to use up 20kg of layers pellets with two chickens within the expiry date?

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Frankito Wrote:

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> And another thing I don't get *cringe* why would

> Babs stop laying eggs because she is broody? I

> would have thought the space hopper she popped

> every day would be enough of a reminder of her

> maternal instincts! Does she just need to hatch

> one of the bubba eggs before settling back into

> battery life?

Frankito - with just two chickens no matter how long she sits on them - they aint going to hatch - see earlier posts!

[Frankito]

Oh buggah, I remember nothing! I am much better with visuals.

[KatharineM]

Sugar, sugar, sugar, honey,honey, honey Frankito, Frank Sinatra whatever.

Shall we remember the discussion we had about the battery eggs back in February.

I had good information about it and I was not given the chance to explained the situation.

I was not a Veterinary qualify to bring up this subject. But I was aware

about eggs been frozen and just not from the same chickens but others as well.

Good choice of eggs when they are frozen and having in hand the best Veterynaries is great

which we are happy to say that, when people call some chickens battery.

Some farmes also have organic frozen eggs he, he, he and no only that they also have their vets abroad

who are family run business. How can people talked this things without knowing the facts of the technology.

This days our technology are far to advance and not only that you can not discuss anything if you have not finished yet your research. (tu)

Good Luck but I'll have my organic eggs and my own chicks. God will bless my chicks either organic or not organic they will be mine and hopefully to expand the business here in the near future. *******

[Frankito]

Oh right on!

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Frankito Wrote:

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> Oh buggah, I remember nothing! I am much better

> with visuals.

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[legalbeagle]

Well I don't really know why babs goes broody, or what, if anything, it does to her biologically. She just sort of gets over it in the end. As for pellets, I pay no attention to the sell by date and nor do the chooks.

[karter]

The foxes were really noisy this morning, hope all of your chickens are ok. Are we allowed to defend our chickens from intruders with force now?

[Big D]

chickens still well - maybe we could bus in some hounds from the outlying counties like the police did for the riots

[legalbeagle]

Yep chooks all fine here too. Except babs whose still persisting in not laying and sitting all cross and clucky on Margot's eggs. Naughty girl.

[Big D]

I think mine have been reading your comments Leaglebeagle, one of them has joined the broody ranks and being a little pickle.

[TheMontesh111]

Disappointing!!

[legalbeagle]

Ooooh sorry BigD. Didn't mean to spread trouble! Babs STILL broody. Have threatened to cook her if she doesn't get laying soon but she's ignoring me. Might withdraw her grapes. She LOVES grapes.

[sfhyouthforum]

sorry I lost you all there, being new to the forum, in a sea of new posts. You lot are prolific in ED!!

My mum has two ex-battery hens arriving next week. Should be good fun.

Next question is - do chickens fight? I mean if I get one from a posh farm and put it with one from the work house, will they sense their differences?

[computedshorty]

It might turn out that the one from a Posh Farm will be educated enough to tell the one from the Workhouse that Hens dont fight, its the Cock that fights other Cocks to rule over all the Hens in the group.

You will soon learn which colour egg comes from which colour Hen. :))

[Big D]

Leagle B - she is still broody - found one chicken trying to lay an egg on top of her the other day! AND she keeps nicking the others eggs to sit on - cheeky!

SFH you may want to put them in the house together at bedtime when they arrive(around 7pm at the mo) there will be some adjusting to each other to establish a pecking order (yes this is where the term comes from)but they will get on with each other. For info you can get ex batts food which brings them back to full health - it has more goodness in it. Otherwise Layers pellets. - I get mine in 20KG sacks.

[sfhyouthforum]

Great! Thanks for all the tips! Will keep you posted!

[Big D]

if anyone has chickens and is interested I have some Marriages layers pellets with flubanvet worming medication in it - use it for 7 days and get rid of any potential worms. this product has a life span of two months and I have only used half of it but wont really need more for 5 & half months. Willing to sell at cost which is cheaper than the stuff that goes in their water each month. PM me if you would like to know more

http://www.marriagefeeds.co.uk/news/farmyard-layers-pellets-with-flubenvet

marriages layers pellets with flubanvet

[Ridgley]

Just make sure they don't escape to the new Morleys that is opening on Dulwich Road;-)