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dave d

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Posts: 52
Location: somerset

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 05 8:19 pm Post subject:
20 chickens 3 geese 11runners counting the 5 babys 2 appleyards 1 cat 1old jack russell called patch who,s 17 this year and fish in a pond

portwayfarm

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 89

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 05 3:15 pm Post subject:
10 chickens, 3 dogs and 7 cats. Watch this space though as next year pigs and cattle.

Hedgey

Joined: 07 Jan 2005
Posts: 123
Location: southwell

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 05 4:18 pm Post subject:
two speckled hens, two brown hens (forgot to ask what breed) all hybrids tho...still awaiting first eggs : oh and a minature sausage dog ...

Gertie

Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 05 3:26 pm Post subject:
Come on, Hedgey, name names (especially your little dog).

Hedgey

Joined: 07 Jan 2005
Posts: 123
Location: southwell

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 05 3:59 pm Post subject: Names
ok the speckled are Mable and Valarie the browns Cilla & Lulu and the pooch is Hector... today I am the proud owner of their very first egg trouble is not sure who laid it !!! and no lion mark on it doh ! lol New hobby egg checking!!!!

Gertie

Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 05 4:02 pm Post subject:
Surprise, surprise!! It'll be Cilla's. Your Hector is so cute.

Hedgey

Joined: 07 Jan 2005
Posts: 123
Location: southwell

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 05 4:06 pm Post subject:
Thank you, he is small with a huge attitude !! He chased a German Shepherd the other day. Good job he didnt catch him or else Hector would have got stuck in it's throat.

Gertie

Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 05 4:42 pm Post subject:

Talking of attitude - we have two hens in our garden at the moment (well, one was picked on by the others and one has been on medication

).

We let Nettie out to have a wander round the garden and she took a running jump at Toby (left) who was glaring at her from our conservatory. Needless to say the brave lad scarpered into the safety of our kitchen, whilst Nettie did a lap of honour round the garden!

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 05 4:55 pm Post subject:
You should have know Netties are always trouble Gertie

Kirstie

Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Posts: 94
Location: Scotland

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 05 11:01 am Post subject:

Ok well here goes, A shetland cow, two jersey cows with calves at foot, limousine calf, 2 ayrshires and 5 fresian calves, two dutch zwartbles tups, five dutch zwartbles ewes, 6 dutch zwartbles lambs, 6 goats of various breeds, poultry, pilgrim geese, chinese brown geese, saxony ducks, khaki campbell ducks, indian runner ducks, khaki campbell x Indian runners, light sussex hens, white silkies, Buff cochins, New Hampshire reds, Rhode Island Reds, Marans, speckled sussex, Isa Browns, golden pheasants, white peacock, Melanistic pheasants and numerous bantams for broody hens. 6 dogs, 9 cats, 8 guinea pigs, two rabbits, 10 pet lambs of mixed breeding, one shetland stallion, one irish cob stallion, one ISH Mare and one anglo arab x trotter. I think I have managed to get them all! I am cheating though as we do rescue animals, but they stay with us for life.

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 05 11:06 am Post subject: livestock
kirstie can i come and live with you ? you are my kind of person i dont' mind cleaning up animal poop but won't do humans..............

Kirstie

Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Posts: 94
Location: Scotland

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 05 11:10 am Post subject:
Sure Nanny, we need plenty of help, another lot of animals coming this weekend, never enough time in the day

woodyandluna

Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Posts: 71
Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 05 6:27 pm Post subject:

anneka wrote:

Lindsay did you hatch both your Oakham Blue chick from tesco eggs?

Anneka

Really?? Is this a joke?!!

Or am I just being gullible?

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 05 6:38 pm Post subject:
A few people managed to hatch the eggs from Tesco as they came from farms that ran cockerel with the hens. Fertile eggs will last a number of days before they need to be incubated so it is possible to hatch them. The was a rumour that the farms stopped running cockerels but that may not be true...

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 05 7:45 pm Post subject:
Lindsay did indeed hatch her supermarket eggs. She also swapped the eggs around in a mixed box to get more of the blue ones to start with

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