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IrlamSpud

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Hello to all,
Many years ago I kept n bred =
Golden Guernsey goats [2] [milk](brown)
Saanan goats [22] [milk](white)
Muscovy Ducks [14 + 1 drake][eggs](black)
Lohmann (Loman) Hens [40+][eggs](brown)
Polish Bantams [20+][hobby](black with white crown)
Silkie Bantams [5][hobby & to brood others eggs](white)
Embden Geese [3][hobby, wasn't the same without some about](white)
Guinea Fowl [2] (to sound alarm when fox/badger was about)
All sold at give away prices in 1997 due to my health, but now no land but a largish back garden and with 3 aging lohmann's (1 egg daily, sometimes 2) which give enough eggs for the family usage and would like to set up for a trio of Indian Runner Ducks (none noisy or flying type), my muscovy's were very quiet unless a flying predator was about but the odd youngster would fly off and to clip the wings made them easier targets for fox during daylight.
All my stock were sheltered in covered pens or sheds as needed before dusk, which I still do now most evenings.
I am in South Lincolnshire so will be looking to buy a trio of Indian Runners from the area between Lincoln / Sleaford / Grantham.
Now in my 69th year so it's only a pet hobby for me now-a-days.
I do have my own websites accessed via http://forefathers.homestead.com/ which is none related to poultry & not selling anything.
Well I think I have given a reasonable introduction.
Best regards,
Spud [aka Alan or Irlam Spud]
 
Hi Iriam, you sound like an interesting new member, welcome to the Forum. We look forward to hearing more about your poultry, past present and future.
 
Welcome to the forum, looking forward to chatting and seeing you around the boards! :D :-)99

I also keep runners, I have a spare trio here but a bit far away for you. I keep Muscovies too and love them, they do worry me this time of year when the youngsters find their wings and want to fly, not unusual to find them on the garage roof and staring in at our bedroom! :o Very tempting to clip wings but then like you I fear more of a target for the foxes.
 
foxy said:
Welcome to the forum, looking forward to chatting and seeing you around the boards! :D :-)99

I also keep runners, I have a spare trio here but a bit far away for you. I keep Muscovies too and love them, they do worry me this time of year when the youngsters find their wings and want to fly, not unusual to find them on the garage roof and staring in at our bedroom! :o Very tempting to clip wings but then like you I fear more of a target for the foxes.
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I never lost a black youngster, unless it was victim of a drake battle, whenever a white girl was hatched she flew when she could and none ever returned!
 
Marigold said:
Hi Iriam, you sound like an interesting new member, welcome to the Forum. We look forward to hearing more about your poultry, past present and future.
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Just wish my memory was like it used to be, grey matter getting scrambled I reckon :? :oops:
 
Hello IrlamSpud and welcome to the forum. You're not the only one who thinks their grey matter is getting scrambled and I'm only 55! Have friends in Lincoln. They used to live on Cathedral row but moved to get away from the noise of tourists and tour buses.
 
chrismahon said:
Hello IrlamSpud and welcome to the forum. You're not the only one who thinks their grey matter is getting scrambled and I'm only 55! Have friends in Lincoln. They used to live on Cathedral row but moved to get away from the noise of tourists and tour buses.
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I moved from West Devon to South West Wales then health took a dive, sold up and moved to near Mansfield, took 13 years of hell to escape to here, for a quiet life - it's lovely here, across a woodland and a field from Woodland Waters
 
Hi Irlam Spud. Mansfield is just as hideous as Burton upon Trent. Places no-one goes to voluntarilty, just end up there for whatever reason. We've spent 13 years of hell as well and are escaping in 4 weeks!

Interesting about the Guinea Fowl being good watchdogs. Did you just leave them roaming about predator spotting them?
 
chrismahon said:
Interesting about the Guinea Fowl being good watchdogs. Did you just leave them roaming about predator spotting them?
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Hi Chrismahon,
Left them in the orchard during the daylight hours but they went into the big shed at night with the silkies, muscovies & polish. The hens went into a different shed.
Tell you what though, the muscovy ducks learned to perch like the hens etc., which kept them off the ground and away from the night-time rats.
 
And well done for cracking the puzzle of how to post an avatar. It takes people like me ages and much frustration to manage that rite of passage! What an imposing picture as well.
 
Marigold said:
And well done for cracking the puzzle of how to post an avatar. {&} What an imposing picture as well.
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well really I had forgotten so went online and did it :roll: For the picture all I can say is thanx for the compliment albeit is 3 years ago when it was taken :-)01
 
IrlamSpud said:
Marigold said:
And well done for cracking the puzzle of how to post an avatar. {&} What an imposing picture as well.
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well really I had forgotten so went online and did it :roll: For the picture all I can say is thanx for the compliment albeit is 3 years ago when it was taken :-)01
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So you're even more handsome now, with the benefit of a little more maturity?
 
foxy said:
Welcome to the forum, looking forward to chatting and seeing you around the boards! :D :-)99

I also keep runners, I have a spare trio here but a bit far away for you. I keep Muscovies too and love them, they do worry me this time of year when the youngsters find their wings and want to fly, not unusual to find them on the garage roof and staring in at our bedroom! :o Very tempting to clip wings but then like you I fear more of a target for the foxes.
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My introduction to Muscovy's was when I bought 2 girls from another smallholder not far from Holsworthy when I lived near to Bratton Clovelly, did most of our shopping in Launceston, so I bought from another smallholder a dozen week old ducklings and lucky me there was only 1 drake amongst them. I sure miss them.
 
chrismahon said:
Tell me about the guinea Fowl please IrlamSpud. How exactly to they work as alarms?
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When guinea fowl are settled they are really a quiet bird but when fox was about they created one heck of a din which is very annoying if you have say 6+, it meant I had to respond when when they started creating with only having 2, I would have dearly loved to have had a dozen or more. One old boy always kept a dozen or so in his orchard running with his hens and he claimed the noise from a dozen guinea fowl scared off fox, not sure about that myself.
 
To get up to speed with Chris's saga about his imminent move to France with dozens of chickens, you' ll need to set aside half an hour or so and read this thread, Spud. http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5925
 
Thanks for those links on Guinea Fowl IrlamSpud. I'll be getting some of those then and changing my listed location in 4 weeks to South Dordogne, France (subject to internet connection).
 
Thanx Marigold will try to find the time.
Chrismahon, just got back from your neck of the woods (Stoke on Trent side of Uttoxeter), went for an 8 berth trailer tent, 2 hundred yards from home and smashed the brand new jockey wheel on the so called railway 'level' crossing :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
 
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