Posted in Chickens, tagged chicks, Silver Dorking on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whilst I was away some of my Silver Dorking chicks hatched
In the end I only ended up with six eggs as the seller who I bought the second half a dozen from chickens stopped laying. When I candled the eggs at twelve days then five out of the six seemed to [...]
Posted in Chickens, Poultry, tagged Chickens, chicks, incubator, Silver Dorking on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is another Silver Dorking egg hatched in the incubator, we’ve moved the last chicks that were left in our room outside a few weeks ago.
It had become so normal to have one kind of bird or chick, quail, gosling, etc. making a noise in the room that I almost didn’t even realise when I heard [...]
Posted in Chickens, Poultry, tagged Chickens, chicks, ducks, goslings, ducklings on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, I didn’t manage to keep up with my intention to keep a recorded of what eggs went into the incubator but things have been moving pretty fast. I didn’t even really manage to keep track of the dates that different eggs were put in there either so every so often there has been a [...]
Such a lot happened this weekend, some very happy and some sad. I had already started to blog about Saturday and was just going to post after taking some photos but then Sunday arrived and I didn’t so much as get to look at the camera. I have posted up Saturdays post as it was [...]
Posted in Chickens, tagged chicks, Silver Dorking on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think it is almost time to give up on the Silver Dorking eggs that I have in my new incubator, something should of happened by now.
I’m disappointed, I was really looking forward to having chicks and the start of building up my flock
Posted in Goats, Quail, tagged beach, chicks, Cuttlefish, goat kid, Goats, Quail on January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m a little bit last with everything this week, I went on a residental at the weekend which was great fun. It was in Wales by a beach, I haven’t been to the beach for ages and I also liked the beach at this time of year.
We spent loads of time on the beach and [...]
Posted in Chickens, Food, Home grown food, tagged Chickens, chicks, meat, ross cobbs on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five weeks ago Mother ordered some more Ross Cobbs, the lady in Gloucester needed a minimum order of 50 chicks and as we’re only have 30 we were going to have to wait six weeks but she would let us know if any became available sooner.
Well she did get some sooner so me and Rhys [...]
