Martin B Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Martin - I find it very difficult to give out the egg boxes - I keep using the grey ones How come? If you've got too many spare, I'd be willing to buy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Egg boxes, that reminds me have you (Lesley/Martin?) got a link to the place where you get the coloured egg boxes - someone posted it fairly recently and it might even be in this thread somewhere but its late and I should be asleep. I tried a search but still couldn't find it. Perhaps it was in the second-hand eglu section and is now deleted? I can't believe people keep posting photos of chicks. Its making the whole forum come over all broody (and yes I do want some too). They are so gorgeous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Here you go...... http://www.flytesofancy.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=84&products_id=615&osCsid=e6e5cc7441b065f5b5420f907cd83bbe They also do other colours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Here you go Tina. http://www.flytesofancy.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Beat you to it Martin....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Oh you beat me Shona! They are really good in my opinion, customers love them! I think the pink ones would look really good with blue or white eggs in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Wow that was quick. I can go to sleep now that I know I have it - many thanks Shona and Martin. I love those boxes. Now we are getting some more chickens I can get some. Don't stay up too late (!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 We will! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 The oddbods are hybrid crosses! Otherwise known as Heinz 57's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 While Jazz was waiting for her breakfast this morning she kept looking in the deep belfast sink in the utility room and wouldn't get down. When Carl looked, there was a chick in the sink It must have hopped onto the feeder which was hanging from a cane and then hopped onto the edge of the box. It must have fallen over two feet into the sink It seems perfectly OK but I have now made a Chicky Hilton with Lauren and Jake helping me and we've moved them into their new home. They have a lot more room and a linked box which is cooler so they can move to whichever area they prefer. I told Jake today that his chicken - Elliebaby - died last week. He was OK about it and has chosen the little bantam instead. She is nameless at the moment. She is the offspring of Rocky and either Babs or Bunty and will be moved to live with them when she is a bit bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Bless Jazz it's a good job she was waiting for her breakfast, and found it! It's a shame about Elliebaby poor Jake. karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Oh poor Elliebaby. What a pity . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Shame about elliebaby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Was Elliebaby the original Ellie (legbar?) - the boys have both "lost" a chook each, and were upset - they do get attatched to the feathery girls. Loved the pics of the chicks Lesley, especially among all the different coloured eggs . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 Elliebaby was the offspring of Ellie - and the only pure breed hen we reared. The pure breed cockerel is still doing fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Typical eh? I'll try to hatch some for you this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Sorry Lesley - I could not remeber if you still had Ellie. Will Jake get to name the little bantam - and have as his own, so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 Yes, he will name her although he doesn't seem too bothered She's the offspring of Rocky and either Babs or Bunty - I can't remember anymore of the names from Chicken Run - are there any suitable for a little brown hen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 Yesterday w e went on a lambing course run by the local Agricultural College. We have been very disorganised since we moved and we managed to lose every piece of paperwork relating to the course We had a wonderful time on the course. We were early - because we didn't have the details - and there were only a few people around. Noone that we asked knew anything about the course. The college site is massive - it used to be quite small. We parked and asked - drove around - parked again Eventually we saw a man, right back at the building where we'd first started - he was looking for us as we were 5 minutes late by then. Luckily, he was a really laid back tutor and there were only 4 other people on the course - all having coffee! Phew! We were inside until 12 - had half an hour for lunch - and then went to the farm part. We'd been waiting all morning for a phone call from the farm manager who was going to phone if there was a lambing due - the phone didn't ring and we thought it was all going to be theory. The phone rang as we all went back in after lunch - and then all hell let loose! We dealt with everything imaginable - Carl was soon up to his armpit in sheep The other 4 people kept sheep and had lambed before so every time the tutor said "who'd like to have a go at this" Carl was volunteered by me I'm not squeamish and really wanted to have a go myself, but I can't kneel and I would have been trying to deliver lambs at the wrong angle Carl delivered a couple of lambs who were in difficulty, and we all helped with the fostering of orphans, or one of triplets, with mothers who had lost her babies. We also delivered two dead lambs followed by a live one from a set of triplets. It was a really emotional afternoon. There were sights I didn't expect - a few dead lambs outside the pens of the new mothers, they'd been squashed. It seemed unacceptable to us but not to the manager or the students. The tutor was very upset at one pen as the sheep was clearly marked as having scanned for triplets but she'd been penned in a small pen after having 2 lambs. She had trampled the first two while trying to deliver the third . I think i would be horrified to have a dead lamb from any of our 6 ewes had I not seen the casualties at the College. It isn't pleasant but unfortunately all farmers will say that a sheep's main aim in life is to die and there were proportionately very few deaths. We also performed quite a few castrations and ringed lots of tails. - so if anyone requires my services? - castrations a speciality The course was worth every penny and we had a truly amazing day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Sounds very interesting Lesley. I suppose you have to become very matter of fact about the deaths, although it sounds as if the tramplings could have been avoidable. Have we a recipe somewhere for fricassed lambs testicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 ..... you'd have to collect a lot from these tiny, tiny lambs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 ..... you'd have to collect a lot from these tiny, tiny lambs Sounds like a really thought provoking and interesting day. They have open lambing days at Reasheath near us, you could do that next year karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 Carl used to go to Reaseheath for school trips (Carl used to live a few hundred yards from where Karen lives now) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 One of my ex-students goes there too! Small world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Lesley, that was so interesting to read. I'm sure having experienced so many good & bad things related to lambing will really help when the time comes on your farm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
