Sunday 30 August 2009

New allotment




New allotment its about 12m by 10m :) I took this bloody mess on 3 weeks ago . Its taken 3 weeks at 4 to 8 hours a day digging/weeding , still im close to laying the fabric/boards/path etc... il have the rest of the fence up this coming week . Im planing on about 12 beds but il wait and see what happens .


Saturday 29 August 2009

1st eggs :D


over the last 2 days my light sussex and today the black araucanas layed for the 1st time :) ,The LS was 54g's the Arau was 40grams I hope within a month il be getting one a day each hen .

Monday 24 August 2009

2nd hatch

I hatched this batch about 7 weeks ago give or take. out of 3 faverolles sadly only 1 is a hen ( yellow one at the back .The cream legbars did better at 3 hens ( 2 are sold and not shown here )
The 1 cock pictured at the front middle Again il be keeping the 2 hens here and guess the lads will be meat birds :(

Chick update v2

Its been months But they are all grown up and should be laying within the next few weeks The others have been sold now Here are the ones id kepted ,Above Is Sunday dinner :) my araucana lav bantam cockerel
This lady is a red/black aruacanas that should lay blue eggs.
This ones a french copper maran ,I think its a lady But still have my doubts

Light sussex Looking ready to lay or crow 'god forbid'
Last up is my black araucana hen , Again a blue egg layer