Seed security is something that many gardeners may overlook. Even those who have embraced sustainable gardening will often be reliant on other systems outside the garden for the seeds that they sow each year.
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This post is really for me as a reminder of where we are at with the chickens so sorry, it’s rather boring.
I love my chickens. In terms of pet value, they rate highly for me and we get the added bonus of the eggs.We started back in 2015 with a couple of brown hybrid chickens (delivered with our first Eglu). I’m fairly certain we then had 3 brown hybrids so clearly we ‘lost’ one (fox attack, I think) and bought 2 more.
We then got a second Eglu Go in 2016 and more chickens, but mixed bantams this time (2 x Pekins, 1 x Light Sussex, 1x Polish Frizzle and our fabulous little black Silkie).I then hatched out 2 lots of chickens in 2016 and 2017, initially with bought eggs (Pekins and Bantam Orpingtons)
which resulted in 3 Bantam Orpington Cockerels and
2 Pekins (Millefleur coloured) of which one died quite early on
Seed security is something that many gardeners may overlook. Even those who have embraced sustainable gardening will often be reliant on other systems outside the garden for the seeds that they sow each year.
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Again, this is really another post for me, a little round-up of our Eglus so sorry if it’s boring.Our first Eglu Go was a simple basic one with a 2-meter run and it was delivered complete with a bloke who put it together and 2 ‘Ginger Ranger’ chickens (brown hybrids, basically). I remember the delivery fella as nice but wildly patronising, he was having none of my ‘I was brought up on a farm’ banter, he clearly thought I fit perfectly into the middle-class Mum dabbling into keeping chickens category. The Eglu was a very generous Birthday gift.We got bitten quickly by the chicken bug and a year later I got a second Eglu Go (again partly as a gift) and our 4 ‘little’ girls (Pure Breed Bantam hens) – this photo was taken before the run extension I ordered had arrived.By now Mr Fox had taken Doris, and Mabel got new companions with the original Eglu being converted to a Go UP – no wheels, I notice.
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I have lived on a farm or homestead for 32 of my 39 years of life. During most of those years, we tended to large gardens and kept a sizeable flock of poultry.Even now, I have a flock of 50 or more, and