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That's South Holland, Lincolnshire to be precise... Hope to learn lots about poultry keeping, used to keep half a dozen hybrid layers a few years ago and recently a friend who has been keeping chickens for a year or so lost half his hens and a Welsommer cockerel to an unfriendly fox. I arranged for a young replacement cockerel to be collected, meanwhile my friend bought an incubator and rounded up all the eggs he could find from the garden and managed to rear 7 youngsters, the new cockerel (Freddie) will be returning here with us later in the year. Freddie has been very active with the remaining hens, three weeks ago I put 4 eggs in my dusted off incubator and yesterday three fine young chicks emerged and are at the moment sunning themselves in the conservatory while it is so warm, will bring them back into the utility room before it gets too cool out there. Last week I purchased from Ebay 12 Black Copper Marans eggs jointly with another friend and hopefully I will (touch wood) be starting out with a few young of this intriguing breed, very interested if there are any Marans keepers in the Spalding area and would like to hear from any of you that love those big brown eggs... 
...any spare? anyway enough from me and I'm off to read more posts
gadget
...any spare? anyway enough from me and I'm off to read more postsgadget
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