Plot 79 – The website and blog…
Posted in Greenhouse, Poultry on Feb 28th, 2009
From our first hatch – the 6 Sussex eggs posted to us (4 of which hatched), I am sure the 2 above are cocks so they are for the pot. The 2 (thought to be) hens have gone to live the other side of Ipswich.
A little video of them being chickens:
Posted in Greenhouse, Growing, Sowing on Feb 28th, 2009
With a bit of good weather appearing, I managed to get the greenhouse together and up to the plot, glazed and (almost) ready for planting in.
I just need to finish the staging and move the 2 chickens living inside. The potatoes are already chitting inside along with some sweet peas and a few various flowers [...]
Posted in Poultry on Feb 22nd, 2009
Sadly the eggs posted to me were damaged during transit from the breeders. I realised when I candled on day 7 and in the majority of them there were no airsac’s and in a few of them, there was an airsac but in the wrong place.
I will be using some of our own eggs next time (start [...]
Posted in Poultry on Feb 16th, 2009
I found the below punishments and disciplinary tips for chickens.
Ignore:
Being rude.
Over eating and bad table manners.
Talking with their beak full.
Arguing among themselves.
Getting in the way or sticking their beaks in.
Making a mess.
A Serious Talking To:
Escaping.
Not sharing.
Bedtime Story of Foxy:
Not going in at night.
Venturing to the other side of the fence.
Roosting in the trees.
Eat Them:
Not laying eggs.
Bullying another [...]
Posted in Food & Cooking, Poultry on Feb 10th, 2009
I have ordered a few boxes of gourmet Sasso hatching eggs for our own chicken meat production. With the aim of eventually keeping ourselves in chicken meat all year round 1st time – it’s going to be an experiment!
Incubation (3 weeks) to end of growing on (12 weeks), making a total of 15 weeks from [...]
Posted in Food & Cooking on Feb 10th, 2009
I did a little experiment today with the microwave :-0
Ingrediants:
100g SR Flour
100g Caster Sugar
100g Margarine
2 Eggs
All you need to do is stick it in a mixing bowl, combine the ingredients until it looks like cake mix. Then pour it in a suitable pudding basin and nuke it in the microwave for 4 1/2 minutes.
On the [...]
Posted in Growing on Feb 6th, 2009
To make leaf mould all you need are leaves and patience!
When the leaves start to fall, get out there with a rake and bags and collect as much leaves as you think you will need and then collect the same amount another 10 times! Seriously – it is surprising how many leaves you need to [...]
Posted in Poultry on Feb 4th, 2009
From yesterday’s hatch I am pleased to say we’ve had 10 chicks hatch from 12 eggs
4 Yellow & 6 Black. Hopefully they all survive.
Photo below shows 8 of the 10. The other 2 are still drying off in the incubator.
Posted in Sowing on Feb 4th, 2009
Parsnips at the best of times are a bastard to grow!
1st up – you need to make sure you have a good quality seed which has a high content of LIVE seed. DEAD seed is obviously no good.
You can germinate seeds in a dish padded out with damp kitchen roll. The seeds need to go [...]
Posted in Poultry on Feb 4th, 2009
I was rudely awoken last night (Tuesday) with the sound of cheeping and egg cracking sounds! Looking at the time it was 3am :-0
1st chick had hatched A yellow one.
Sitting on the PC this morning (9am) writing this, another 2 hatched within the last 20 minutes. Another yellow one and a black one. [...]