|
Forums65
Topics76,505
Posts1,034,160
Members14,897
| |
Most Online80,173
Apr 25th, 2025
|
|
|
5 members (1 invisible),
9,291
guests, and
399
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
S |
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
|
25
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551
Forum Veteran
|
Forum Veteran
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551 |
Up until a couple of years ago I kept hens. Just bog standard Isa Browns etc. Nothing fancy. They are great time-wasters ! Wonderful to watch them establish a pecking order (sorry). Easiest thing in the world to keep. Keep an eye out for Red Mites in the henhouse though. I got batches of 5 or six. In retrospect too many really. More eggs than I could sell from the house, or give away to friends.
Eggs straight from the nestbox are a hundred times better than even the best "organic free range" stuff from the shops. Dark, rich yolks. Yummy.
If you are having a fixed, fenced enclosure, it might start off as grass, but towards the winter it will end up like the Somme on a bad day. Amazingly it does recover though - until the next winter.
Keep the hen house as clean as you can. Plenty of sawdust etc. Clean straw for the nest boxes. Go for it ! They all become great characters. Plenty of good info on the net on how to get started.
I'm sure Bezzy (if she's still speaking to me. ha.ha) will agree that they are great things to have around the garden.  Indeed they are! Lol
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 119
Enthusiast
|
|
Enthusiast
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 119 |
We have 4 chickens and we get 4 eggs a day. I know u may not beleive this but they all have a name and when we call them by their name they each come to us. They are fantastic.There names are sage,tikka,paxo and dorothy. the daughter gave them their names haha.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551
Forum Veteran
|
|
Forum Veteran
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551 |
Hmmmm,bit heartless calling one Dorothy! Lol
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 59
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 59 |
Maybe there should be a wikichicken section introduced.
I've been keeping them for about three years now.
Yes they all have names.
Yes if you let them on the lawn regularly they will destroy it(I've re turfed ours twice).
Yes you get the best eggs you've ever tasted.
Yes if they get poorly you take them to the vet(very entertaining in the waiting room--unfortuanately vets don't know much about chickens)
Yes they can be noisy(Normally in the early morning)not had any neighbours complain though.
Before I got them a few people said I had to check my deeds and I did and no mention of chickens.
Bottom line is get them.
They definately brighten up the garden.
If you need any advice PM me.
Cheers rockster.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 2,944
Forum Master
|
|
OP
Forum Master
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 2,944 |
many thanks for all the info guys
><((((*> <*))))><
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551
Forum Veteran
|
|
Forum Veteran
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 5,444
Forum Veteran
|
|
Forum Veteran
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 5,444 |
Covenant in my old place stopped me from keeping pigs, it used to be church land and they didn't want any competition apparently when they sold it on
Good luck with the chooks, great idea.
Last edited by BandyCoot; 12th Aug 2011 1:48pm.
Birkenhead........ God's own Room 101.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 1,615
Forum Addict
|
|
Forum Addict
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 1,615 |
Was thinking of asking my landlady if I can keep some chickens in the back yard. Not sure but I thought you needed a licence to keep chickens.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551
Forum Veteran
|
|
Forum Veteran
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 5,551 |
Was thinking of asking my landlady if I can keep some chickens in the back yard. Not sure but I thought you needed a licence to keep chickens. No Spanner chickens are fine,if you have a cock' then you would!
|
|
|
Click to View Topic.
|
|
|
Posts: 2,293
Joined: December 2010
|
|
|
There are no members with birthdays on this day. |
|
|
|
