I'm late posting AGAIN!  I really am trying to get my vegetable garden sorted out, but with all the rotten weather we had, then going up to Scotland and even more wet and cold weather after I returned, I've only really got to grips with it this past week!  So I've been trying to catch up, in between feeding, watering, cleaning out and chatting to the chickens!!!!!  But at least my seeds are coming up nicely in the big greenhouse, and many things I've potted on.  Really need more greenhouse space, but the other 2 greenhouses are acting as sheds at the moment because my sheds turned into brooders!

I've also got my potatoes in now and some are beginning to show, and all my onions.  I've got 2 more sections of veg garden to dig up, getting rid of all the docks and nettles and dandelions that have grown to about 2 foot, and once that is done, hubby will rotavate it for me, but he doesn't like digging, in fact he doesn't like gardening much, he'd rather be making things with his bits of wood saved from the skip!  Like the extension to the brooder shed, which is now 14ft x 5ft instead of 7ft x 5ft!  The walls are made of matching (like T&G!) and the frame is cut down old door frames, and the roof and floor are made from old pallets and recovered with new felt.  the only wood he had to buy was 5 strips for the new door as the bits we had weren't long enough!

Hubby has put in another door and window so that if we ever need to separate it into 2 brooders, we can just put a partition through the middle.  We rescued some guttering and downpipe too, so hubby is going to fix it up along the back and route the rainwater into one of my water butts!

A friend of a friend has also asked for some of our meat chicks, and she wanted 40!!!!!!  As she lives in Surrey and doesn't get up here very often.  The only thing is, the meat chicks are only 8 weeks old, plus I do have other people who want to try them too!  Anyway, I sorted out 19 yesterday, who weigh between 2.5 and 3kgs!  So she'll just have to make do with them.  they are segregated from the others at the moment, as we've had to put them on finisher pellets.  This is because the rearer pellets they were eating have an anticoccidial in, and the finisher is plain pellets and it gets the anti coccidial out of their systems before you cull them.  Hubby was over the moon that she wanted so many until I pointed out to him that by next weekend when she is coming up here, they will only be 9 weeks old and so not all of them will be up to weight.  Some of them still only weigh 2kgs, but they seem to get bigger before my eyes!!!!

Here are a couple of pics of the meat chicks.  Most of the white ones weigh 2.5kgs, with some being slightly over and some slightly lower.  Most of the coloryields are 2 - 2.5 kgs and the Mastergris between 2 and 3kgs!!!!  I must admit that I haven't yet weighed the Babcock's, but I will do tomorrow and I'll let you know with pics what their weights are now too!