tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078806588853616263.post4008459111241926200..comments2024-03-29T01:38:00.306+00:00Comments on An English Homestead: 20 Extra ChickensKev Alvitihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992625860900617194noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078806588853616263.post-80285042117025221022016-06-05T18:09:16.104+01:002016-06-05T18:09:16.104+01:00Kev, they look kind of beat up. Did they attack ea...Kev, they look kind of beat up. Did they attack each other or was that how it was where they came from? <br /><br />I have three hens with chicks trailing them now. Most of the chicks are black. I had pure bred English Fighting Chickens for years, then one day a black bantee chicken came out of the woods and now how my flock is black. There's a lesson in there somewhere.....Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05071021900005041592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078806588853616263.post-10836684200262870662016-06-04T07:10:33.034+01:002016-06-04T07:10:33.034+01:00We've always had great success with ex-commerc...We've always had great success with ex-commercial free rangers. They are lovely birds usually. Very friendly and inquisitive after their year as part of a HUGE flock. They seem to settle in well as part of a smaller one.<br /><br />We've just got some new birds for our small flock, just 4 this time. Unfortunately all the eggs our broodys have been sitting on have turned out not to be fertilised. I think our cockerel is firing blanks!!<br /><br />Hope you get lots of eggs to sell from your new batch, the thing with buying them this way is you recoup the cost of them very quickly.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04177854521955532744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078806588853616263.post-2326754091438076982016-06-04T05:03:37.658+01:002016-06-04T05:03:37.658+01:00I've tried to get hold of similar hens here, b...I've tried to get hold of similar hens here, but no-one seems to have any!Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078806588853616263.post-32317734056042301162016-06-03T09:22:15.717+01:002016-06-03T09:22:15.717+01:00Nearly all our egg laying hens are rescued ex-comm...Nearly all our egg laying hens are rescued ex-commercial. Apart from costing hardly anything they lay straight away. Also, they don't seem to go broody. Most of the eggs are sold at the gate or to regular customers.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13415361156288825232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078806588853616263.post-62365850116480684692016-06-03T08:23:10.089+01:002016-06-03T08:23:10.089+01:00Hope your chickens do well. On Facebook France the...Hope your chickens do well. On Facebook France there was a request to rehome several thousand factory chickens who were in a poor state of being, but we are still involved with getting the chicken project finished so had no space to take some in. Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235143664894609891noreply@blogger.com