Sorry I'm Late……..
…… with this posting! But I've been really busy out in the garden trying to catch up now the weather has improved a bit! I hadn't done anything in the garden or greenhouse, what with spening so much time with the chicks and chickens! But over the pst couple of weeks, I've got loads of seeds germinted and growing in the greenhouse, got 3 plots dug and weeded and 2 of them planted with late potatoes. (Well the potatoes are earlies and maincrop, its just me that's late!!) Another plot ready for my onions which are also late, and my bbenas and peas!
Anyway, so, last Thursday the meat chicks were 7 weeks old and some of them went off the scale on my kitchen scales, so they are over 2.27 kgs!!!! I wanted to try one this coming week at 8 weeks old, but hubby says I have to give them a week on poultry finisher first, so it will be next week now!!!
The Babcock's may have been tiny when we got them, but they are catching up fast! when I weighed them last Thursday, they averaged 175 gms, so 70gms more than the previous week! They are getting tall now, and they love being in the big henhoue. They still run around as if they are training for the Olympics!
I've had several pecking agin, but after a few days in a big box in the dining room and smothered in vaseline and liquid parafin, they are all back together and looking okay at the moment!
Not the best of photo's that last one,you can hardly see them, but at lest they have loads of room to run around, and as soon as hubby rotavates their run, they can go and get some proper fresh air!
Well, I can't think of much else to talk about at the moment, but they'll all be another week older in 2 days, so more updates then! Thanks for reading, and thanks for all the phone calls, I'm just sorry I don't hae anymore chooks ready yet!!!!
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hi,
can u give me an email wen u hav chickens 4 sale?
and is there a limit on the transport they can take ( i live in scotland).
this is the best site ive found so far selling chickens all the rest are confusing :-/
Hi Kim, thanks for the compliment about the site! As to the next batch of chickens, they will be ready in the middle of August, but I'm afraid transportation is very expensive, so people come to me and collect! I know a man who transport his pigeons by Amtrak, and they charge £30 for up to 4 pigeons, so if they would do chickens, it would be even more expensive. There are lots of people doing chickens in Scotland, send me a message on the form on the Contact me page, above left, and let me know what you are looking for, and I'll see if I can find someone nearer to you.
Hope you get what you want soon!!! Ann
Amtrak do carry pigeons but refuse to take any other livestock these days.The only other firm that did take them stopped about 4/5 years ago.
Thank you for the info Poulet! Looking after me as usual??? lol. Strangely enough, I was talking to my friend in Scotland tonight, and we were talking about transporting, and he was saying that you can transport poultry and get them delivered the next day by courier, but I don't think he's done it for a while. I told him things have changed tremendously, these last few years, but I'll ask him if he does find anyone willing to transport to let me know, just in case!!!!!