Well, the pullets are now 21 weeks old, a few more have gone to their new homes and feedback from customers so far is good!

However, we still have over 200 here, and when I was down there yesterday, there were some chooks inside the big henhouse making the sort of noises that our layers make when they are laying or have just laid an egg!!!!  I haven't seen any eggs yet, but it looks like it could be imminent!

I know I do manage to sell my excess eggs usually, but not sure what I'm going to do with 250 eggs a day!!!!! lol

I've got a notice outside the house, I've put the details on the River Cottage forum, on here, on the Allotment Growing forum, one on Preloved, I did have a free one on AdTrader, but when I updated it and changed the word pullets to chickens they said I'm not entitled to a free ad, I'd have to pay for it, and I had one in the Lincoln shire Free Press. 

Now that one cost me £10.68 for 1 week, and when we eventually found the advert, it was right down the bottom of a page under the heading Items for Sale!!!!   Consequently we didn't have one phone call.  Well, come on, who would look under items for sale for chickens!!!!  The poultry section had disappeared, but they could have put it under 'farming'!!!!

The thing is, all these paid for adverts just mean more costs going on the price of the chickens, and if they are too expensive, people won't buy them!  So what to do for the best?

We had another tonne of food delivered just over a fortnight ago.  Half of that in layers pellets and half in chick crumb and rearer pellets as we want to get our meat chicks pretty soon.  But the layers pellets have just about gone, so I've had to order another tonne for next week, and its no joke when its nearly £300 a tonne!

I've got orders from 2 ladies up in Yorkshire, but they can't get all the way down here, and I can't afford to get up to them for just 16 chooks, so I keep hoping for some more enquiries nearer to the humber bridge!!!

It was so windy here yesterday, that it was lifting the roof off the brooder shed, where I've got a couple of girls recovering from being feather pecked.  I held on to the roof while hubby went and got hammer and VERY large nails and hammered it back on.  The girls were OK, a little shaken but otherwise unhurt, luckily, as the moving roof had pulled the galvanised feeder down off its hook and the hook is nearly straight now!  Must go and find another one!