The Grandchildren Tillie & Emilia came to stay for a week on Friday just in time for the annual visit to Heckington Show.We went on the Saturday and we were a bit dissappointed with it this year.There appeared to be less animals and very few pure breed poultry than in previous years.Still the girls enjoyed themselves especially inside the giant balls that float on water.
We came back to find that we had another baby,a new born White Japanese Bantam hatched by Duchess.This morning there were 2 and Duke was crowing loudly like any proud dad.
Both incubators are full at the moment with Japanese,Buff Orpington Bantams and Dark Brahma's in one and our venture into Large Breeds with Black and White Orpingtons in the other along with a test egg from our class A Serama's.
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Sunday, 19 July 2009
My First Ever Blog
What started out 2 years ago as keeping 6 Hens for Eggs and 3 cute White Japanese Bantams for pets has developed into a full time hobby looking after 13 different Breeds totalling around 100 Chickens all with their own unique character.
We have started to incubate a few more recently for next years breeding and these will hopefully hatch in the next 2 weeks(Will keep you informed).
The Chicks have had a terrible week with the weather and seem to have spent more time inside than out.Some are really bedraggled with the rain and starting to moult.They must think like us that Winter has come early especially as we were able to lock them up early.
Hope things improve next week as we have the Grandchildren coming to stay.They seem to really enjoy their stays with us looking after the chickens and being spoilt by us.
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