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[pebojuno]

Oh dearie me, I'm properly addicted! Spoke to someone at the end of last year about wanting speckled sussex hatching eggs and had an email yesterday asking if I would like to buy the three hens and their coop as their owner has decided to just keep pekins. Yes please I say!

Going on Sunday to pick the speckled sussex girls (despite the fact they don't fit in with my breeding plans for the year - they are gorgeous though!) coop, run, a new cream legbar cockerel AND (because obviously I NEED more chickens salmon and gold partridge pekin eggs too!

My other half is currently building a massive 10m by 15m ish run to split in half to separate our breeding groups up. Sometimes I think it's a blinking good job he's a fencer with very understanding (if bemused!) farmer parents

 

[Tim]

Ha! yes, isn't it addictive!

I must cut down again. I've decided to let my Cream Legbars go and my UK strains of Abacot ducks. I've got 19 ducklings from my German strain and more in the 'oven'. I plan to keep most of these next year plus the Geese if I ever manage to get them.. so I'm going to need more grass!

Speckled Sussex are great. Then again, there's not many chickens I don't fancy keeping. Naked necks are about the only ones I don't fancy!

 

[girlracer265]

lol its so addictive, i just sold some of my pekins but ended up buying more call ducks
and i have some speckled sussex eggs in the incy atm

 

[pebojuno]

Tim- Can't believe you're letting the legbars go! (i.e. Wish I lived closer so I could have first dibs )

Girlracer - Nearly ran over a pair of white call ducks on my way to work the other day - I love ducks- they're real characters!

The run is going well - Posts are all ready for a 6 ft high chain link fence with another foot dug into the soil and barbed wire at the top to (hopefully :? ) deter foxes. So at this delicate point in proceedings I had better not mention that I may get into ducks or geese to my OH or his parents- I think that'd be pushing it a bit!

 

[Tim]

Yes, sadly, they have to go. I have to (yet again) make some tough decisions in the limited space I have. One less cockerel also means I will be able to combine two runs and increase my Copper Black Marans flock next year. I am so looking forward to getting my geese - hopefully this year. They will have alot of grass to mow for me

 

[Anonymous]

HI,

I'm glad I'm not the only mad person.

My plans for increasing our cream legbars have been put on hold at the moment as I did buy and incubator but it has been held up being shipped out due to the volcanic ash so heaven only knows when it will arrive so they only legbar hen we have will have to make sure she doesn't go broody or all my plans will be up the spout this year.

Tim if you were nearer or I knew we would be visiting my brother in law soon who is your side of England I would love to have bought some of your stock.

Good luck with the new hens,

Greenhen

 

[Tim]

I have 3 adult hens and a couple of young growers (hens) left. I can send them across as far as Cardiff in June (via Milton Keynes, Bicester, Oxford - M4 - Bristol, Newport, Cardiff) if you know of anyone that wants them. The cock is going to have to go before then I think.

Tim

 

[pebojuno]

Cardiff... now that's only 2 hours away..... off to speak to other half