Keeping hens, that's what we've been considering. Maybe only two to four birds in an Eglu, which provides an attractive and modern home for them. The eglu is pretty secure against foxes too, though I am not sure about bears. But we don't have bears.
Also, we need pullets at point of lay. Pullets are hens which are under a year old - see, I'm learning! Anyone any ideas as to where to get them in North Wales? We don't need pretty hens, we need productive ones.
No cocks wanted. They would rub our neighbours up the wrong way.
Thursday, 22 January 2009
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Well, your choice is immense, first you need to decide do you just want layers, or will you want to eat the bird as well? If just layers do you want brown or white eggs? how productive vs egg quality another consideration. Once your settled on that you will know the breed you require! then you go about locating them, there are some of the rarer breeds in my locality, when i did this a decade back we had no difficulty in locating the birds. Mind you that was before bird flu - are there any left now!
ReplyDeletesee http://www.cacklehatchery.com/page2.html for egg colour and just a general 'best egg layer bird' type google search will reveal much more. Have fun.