And sold! I have a dozen Silver Dorkings eggs on they’re way to me.
Mrs Dorking is very unhappy about her move but the incubator is now cleaned and back on as a back up.
Posts Tagged ‘Eggs’
Going once, going twice…
Posted in Chickens, tagged broody, Chicken, Eggs, incubator on August 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Counting eggs
Posted in Chickens, tagged Chickens, Eggs, Silver Dorking on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The oldest of the Silver Dorking chicks is looking very cockerel like, but as they are sex-linked chicks I’m not really surprised. Still it would have been nice to be wrong, if that one is a cockerel then so is the other so no hen chick for the minute. There are a few more eggs [...]
Goose eggs
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged Eggs, hatching, goose on April 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I put the first eggs in my new incubator last night, three goosy-lucy eggs.
I can’t really remember ever having hatched anything other than hen and quail eggs before, but I’m sure we must have hatched duck eggs when I was younger, so this will be interesting. The new incubator is a manual turner so I’ve [...]
Quail Egg Setting
Posted in Film/Video, Quail, tagged Eggs, film, hatching, incubator, Quail on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eggs all now safely in the incubator!
Getting ready for hatching
Posted in Quail, tagged Christmas, Eggs, hatching, incubator, May, Quail, thunder storms on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting ready to hatch some quail eggs, I’ve been collecting the eggs and turning them for the past two days and the incubator has been washed and is running ready to put the eggs in on Saturday.
It seems like an ideal time of year for hatching now, especially after the disaster of the lot of eggs [...]
Richard Dorking
Posted in Chickens, tagged Chicken, Eggs, hatching, pure breed, Richard Dorking, Silver Dorking on November 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ever since I took over the pen of chickens that I’ve been looking after I’ve wanted to try breeding pure Silver Dorkings or Marsh Daisys, I’ve spent hours on eBay looking at hatching eggs and going through poultry forums for sale lists. I’ve even almost arranged buying eggs but whenever I’ve been able to hatch [...]
Well, winter is finally here
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Goats, Quail, tagged Eggs, Garden, Goats, holiday, knitting, Local Exchange Trading System, Quail, rain, snow, socks, spinning, vegetables, Winter, wool, work on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Outside it is snowing, huge flacks but it’s been raining all afternoon so the ground is, touch wood, to wet for it to settle.
October has flown by; I’ve spent most of it working. I work right though from the 13th until the 22nd, two days off and now I’m back at work. Officially I’m on [...]
Everyone has a little bit to do
Posted in About nothing really, Chickens, Food, tagged Chickens, Eggs, free range, Good Egg Award on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve never really had a good opinion of McDonald’s, they’ve always been up on my list of ‘greasy company’, and so I was really suspired to find that they hold a Good Egg Award.
“The Good Egg Awards seek to recognise companies that are making a difference to the welfare of laying hens by switching [...]
A bit of an egg
Posted in Quail, tagged egg, Eggs on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I doubt I would have enough found this egg if I hadn’t had just cleaned the cage out and put down newspaper instead of wood shavings:
