Posts by pgpoultry

Where do I start, Flower?   Floods replaced by this       A foot of snow and we were snowed in for a week.It melted and then we had gales and  flooding again....worse than the time before. In the...

I have never had a NN rooster that is aggressive to people, but they can be real fighters with other roosters (actually looks quite funny as they don't have the neck feathers to stand up, but it does mean that the neck area can be...

Hi, We have temperatures down to about 0 degrees and they cope with that, but are not as cold hardy as  my Brahmas or Naked Necks.   They tend to huddle together on really cold days if outside, so I let them into my barn...

SO sorry to hear NNs are not popular in the US. NNs are increasing in popularity in the British Isles (we lot are known for having eccentric tastes), though they are still pretty rare here. I keep them because I like  their quirky...

We are suffering what for us is exceptional cold. I thought I would like to remind folk of the frostbite problem during very low temperatures.   Here are two pics. of my La Fleche  rooster, Young...

Where are you moving to, Mary? Will it be greener? It will pretty definitely be COLDER.

Hi, flower.......how's the chickens?   Mine are showing their cowardly side (or sensible side).....blizzards forecast and they are only venturing out to quickly eat and then go back in......I'd like to do the same!

Aoxa....chickens and sheep.....NO problems.....quite a nice almost symbiotic set up. I have about 60 sheep and about 40 chickens. Lambing is 2 months off, it's cold, so the sheep are fed twice daily with pellets which have a...

Flower....just for the moment, the Mud Major has become the Snow Queen. We have a month of sub zero temps forecast to harden the ground....definitely better than the never-ending mud.   The NNs usually cope very well with the...

Spock, Spock and Murtle sounds like a firm of lawyers.....nice looking ones, though!   Georgia Boy.....seriously cool chickens.   Flower.....your girls look in very good condition. It must be very difficult with the...