Hello ,

[hedgerow pete]

hello all, I am peter, better known on several internet places as hedgerow pete, due to my habbit before hugh fernnly whittingstale made it trendy on harvesting hedgerows for food and ingrediants,

poultry wise i have been keeping a odds and sods collection of fowl for 11 years now but due to a deseased fox i have had to restart this winter from afresh.

this time i am makeing the choice to go for one breed only as a collection of birds was to complicated to look after.
Ixworths are the chosen breed but i will for now any way this year still keep a small collection of light sussex's to eat but not to breed with,from or show.

the ixworths on the other hand once the flock has grown to its full size of 15 birds will then also produce sunday lunches and if i am very very lucky a couple if not one bird to show and breed from.
no i am not planning on saving the whole worlds stock of ixworths just something to be proud of thats all.

i hope you lot are feeling up to the challenge as i have an awful lot of questions to ask.

pete

 

[Frenchchickens123]

Hi and welcome! I Dont keep either breed I'm afraid. I have a marram cockeral, 4 leghorns for my eggs, 2 Orpington hybrids which I keep for breeding my meat chickens, 7 Orpington hybrids ready to be eaten (we are doing the deed at the weekend), 1 pekin bantam hen which is a pet more than anything and 25 chicks of various ages (produce of both my leghorns, orpies and my bantam). This is a great place as there are many nice people who can offer advice or just to talk to. I am fairly new to all as I have only been keeping chickens since last September so it's nice to have the advice from people such as yourself who have been keeping them a lot longer and it helps put my mind at ease there are many people here who keep these breeds and will be of a lot more help than myself but I thought I'd welcome you and say hi! Sorry to hear about nasty mr fox and your last flock by the way :-(

 

[Davidd]

Hello and welcome to the forum
I keep light and Coronation sussex but no Ixworths
regards, David

 

[foxy]

Hello and welcome! 08 08 I don't keep Ixworths or light Sussex, Ixworths though sound like very useful birds from what I hear!

 

[Anonymous]

Hello. I have 2 light Sussex bantams!

 

[foxy]

oh I just remembered I do have one lovely bantam light sussex! (sorry nctb.. ena is very well too!)

 

[crewy05]

Hello and welcome to the forum from me as well 17

 

[ncotb]

hi & welcome from me too 17

Keep a few Sussex, Ixworths are on my wish list.

oh I just remembered I do have one lovely bantam light sussex! (sorry nctb.. ena is very well too!)

:lol: :lol: glad shes ok & Buffy

 

[Tim]

Hello Pete,

A warm welcome to the forum!

I have Light Sussex and soon to be Coronation too (Thanks to David )

I hope you get a lot out of the forum.

It's a wonderful collection of people from all over and we are very lucky to have them all visiting us and contributing to our community.

Speak soon

Tim