Rain has just started here in Cornwall so chance to sit down. got the grass cut in time.
I've hatched a few chickens in an incubator. It's really exciting listerning to the cheeps before they hatch. The only trouble is 50% are going to be cockerels and they fight each other so unfortunately you have to get rid of them and no-one wants cockerels.
Aww lovely Pam, apart from the Cockerel bit, not sure I could do that
It's very warm here, even the wind is warm is which is a sign summer is coming. I think the threatened thunder storm are on their way here, wind has got up a lot in the last half an hour and it's very muggy.....yuck!!
OL - could you put them out and be prepared cover them with a fleece if we do get a late frost?
Mrs G - oh I'd love to hatch chicks but I'm not sure what my partner would think. (Although the difference in price between point of lay and fertile eggs might help me convince him and its not like I'll be having babies of my own to pace the kitchen floor nervously about).
I've just been looking at Silkie chickens - small in size with a calm temperament are as important as good layers with us right now as I want chickens that will not get overly stressed with visitors / dogs in the garden. Dove suggested a breed whose name I wrote on a bit of paper and put somewhere "safe"
Clari, they are Cosmos so don't think they would cover well and not sure how 'hardy' they are?
I've also got my free perennials that have come on really well and need repotting, still quite small though and not sure how big they need to be to go outside? I think I'm going to put them in my spare 'nursery' space behind the GH in pots as they are protected from the wind a lot there.
Hmm. Thinking about it I don't think he'd cope well with the idea of having to dispatch a cockerel (I'll happily do it and think no more of it - wonder what that says about us!!)
I'm always putting things 'somewhere safe' Clari, glad its not just me.
Ooh OL hope we don't get a frost....I've done my hanging baskets today....don't usually till end of may-begin June ....i'll just have to take them down again if ness.
This weather is making me think about giving up work sooner lol.
Clari & Lottie Pam - this farm will take back the cockerels, you only pay for any you keep. Was on my question list how long before you can tell with sex they are. decide against it so dont get me thinking again! Anyway, supposed to be working, or at least drinking coffee....clari willies were my fave as well.
Clari - Light Sussex Bantams - pretty hens with a lovely temperament, good layers of good sized eggs - larger than ordinary bantams eggs - don't be misled by the term bantam - they're a smaller version of the Sussex hen which is a big chicken, so they're sort of medium hen sized.
There are other colour-ways in the Sussex, so you could have several of the same type, but with different colours so you know who is who from the start.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Good afternoon all,
Rain has just started here in Cornwall so chance to sit down. got the grass cut in time.
I've hatched a few chickens in an incubator. It's really exciting listerning to the cheeps before they hatch. The only trouble is 50% are going to be cockerels and they fight each other so unfortunately you have to get rid of them and no-one wants cockerels.
Aww lovely Pam, apart from the Cockerel bit, not sure I could do that
It's very warm here, even the wind is warm is which is a sign summer is coming. I think the threatened thunder storm are on their way here, wind has got up a lot in the last half an hour and it's very muggy.....yuck!!
OL - could you put them out and be prepared cover them with a fleece if we do get a late frost?
Mrs G - oh I'd love to hatch chicks but I'm not sure what my partner would think. (Although the difference in price between point of lay and fertile eggs might help me convince him and its not like I'll be having babies of my own to pace the kitchen floor nervously about).
I've just been looking at Silkie chickens - small in size with a calm temperament are as important as good layers with us right now as I want chickens that will not get overly stressed with visitors / dogs in the garden. Dove suggested a breed whose name I wrote on a bit of paper and put somewhere "safe"
Clari, they are Cosmos so don't think they would cover well and not sure how 'hardy' they are?
I've also got my free perennials that have come on really well and need repotting, still quite small though and not sure how big they need to be to go outside? I think I'm going to put them in my spare 'nursery' space behind the GH in pots as they are protected from the wind a lot there.
Hmm. Thinking about it I don't think he'd cope well with the idea of having to dispatch a cockerel (I'll happily do it and think no more of it - wonder what that says about us!!)
I'm always putting things 'somewhere safe' Clari, glad its not just me.
Ooh OL hope we don't get a frost....I've done my hanging baskets today....don't usually till end of may-begin June
....i'll just have to take them down again if ness.
This weather is making me think about giving up work sooner lol.
Taking a break, watching the afternoon Chelsea show. Then out to mow the lawn when, hopefully the heat might have dropped a bit
Phewww, I really don't want to say this ....but.......its very hot..
Clari - Light Sussex Bantams - pretty hens with a lovely temperament, good layers of good sized eggs - larger than ordinary bantams eggs - don't be misled by the term bantam - they're a smaller version of the Sussex hen which is a big chicken, so they're sort of medium hen sized.
There are other colour-ways in the Sussex, so you could have several of the same type, but with different colours so you know who is who from the start.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.