The Poultry Keeper

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2183 Location: Shropshire

I am a frustrated chicken owner! Crying or Very sad

I have all the chickens I need and 6 out of 9 are laying (one being a cockerel Laughing

) but I want more (not necessarily for eggs for eating) but have no more room at the inn!!!! Evil or Very Mad

I get thoughts, which then I feel guilty about, such as which can I move on so I can have something new....like they are old clothing or something..... Am I abnormal or something Embarassed

....come on spit it out, do you lot get the same thoughts..... Twisted Evil

Make me feel better.

I am off to Hereford on Sat with Fenn and I know what will happen Rolling Eyes

Yoo Hoo Henwife, we still have our eye on the "end house"!!!! We are gonna sneak in one of these nights Laughing

JustChickens · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 886 Location: Sussex

I would never get rid of any of my chickens, unless i had excess i wanted to sell or too many cockrels..

NannyP · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject:

Maybe you can stack them Laughing

Have double decker coops Very Happy

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7170 Location: isle of lewis

we all have to do these things Wink

,if you breed things will have to move on ,otherwise there will be problems with inter breeding even when you have loads of space Wink

newby · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 111 Location: Dordogne

Why not move house, you'll have more room to expand, keep the oldies but get new.

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2183 Location: Shropshire

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3239 Location: Monmouthshire

Keep bantams - they take up less space, eat less, and come in lots of varieties. OK, so they lay smaller eggs, but does that really matter? If you want to bring down LF surplus I can pop them into the next Hereford auction for you...... that's how I weed mine.
See you Saturday - just to confuse you, I've had my hair cut short!

Welsh Duck · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject:

I am selling dutch at Hereford on Saturday. So come up and say hello Very Happy

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3239 Location: Monmouthshire

And because your white dutch are so stunning I'm going to have to bath those two white wyandottes I've entered.

NannyP · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

Welsh Duck · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

They are not as white as I would like them to be.

Decided I'm going out of white dutch and instead stick to gold partridge dutch and partridge wyandottes... so much easier to keep clean Very Happy

The pencilled wyandottes have a question mark over them at present

I wiped the dutch over last weekend and gave them clean shavings so I hope they will look respectable. Very Happy

Didn't give them a full wash as didn't want them to get chilled

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2183 Location: Shropshire

Sadly Henwife, I have just texted Fenn to say I can't do the transport. OH needs the car afterall. Bit pigged off about it but hey ho, next time. Crying or Very sad

So hair cut or no haircut I won't be able to spot you Laughing

The only LF I could part with (emotionally) is Nameless but she is an excellent layer. Never could let go of Barney or Hattie and the others are all bantams, save to the dreaded two TNN's who love the outdoors!

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3239 Location: Monmouthshire

There's nothing you can do about that except curse. At least it saves you both from temptation, but it means there nobody to tell me that I really don't need/haven't room for whatever catches my eye.

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2183 Location: Shropshire

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3239 Location: Monmouthshire

Of course you'd say it, but with such utter lack of conviction that I wouldn't believe you.