Ciao Tutti.
Thanks for your site it a great place for things you need to know about chickens. We live in a country area of Sicily where dogs are kept chained up all day & night 12 months a year (and it can get down to freezing for a few weeks a year) and only have an up-turned sink for shelter. Chickens are thought of the same as vegitables if they look sick or do not produce its an overhead that must go, they only keep them for 1 year as they slow down laying.
We let ours out of their encloseure at least once a day, which is 4 - 10 times bigger than our neighbours and get 2 eggs a day from 3 four year olds, our neighbours get less from 8 hens, we have given them all names and they have their own personalities. The neighbours want to know when we will replace them and we keep telling them that they are still laying why get rid of them and we dred the day we will have to.
Using your template.
1 ) four years ago we bought 5 one month brown hens.
2) we only have 3 three now one was pecked so badly and we had to ask a neighbour to put it down and to our suprised was given back all prepaired for the freezer. The other damaged herself laying a very large egg and was bleading badly and went the same way.
3) common garden brown hens
4) looking up information on chickens using google
5) Gardening and living the Sicilian way & not doing very well with the local dialect.
6) We had a canary and I made him a 2m x .5 x .5 (6ft x 18ins x18ins) cage with wheels to get him out side in the morning and it was the talk of the local comunity, but unfortunatly he died while being looked after by a Sicilian neighbour and they gave us a budgie as a replacement (not that it could) We do not know his history or age he was very timid and has a leg deformity, but after 4 months is starting to show his personality.
Thanks for your site it a great place for things you need to know about chickens. We live in a country area of Sicily where dogs are kept chained up all day & night 12 months a year (and it can get down to freezing for a few weeks a year) and only have an up-turned sink for shelter. Chickens are thought of the same as vegitables if they look sick or do not produce its an overhead that must go, they only keep them for 1 year as they slow down laying.
We let ours out of their encloseure at least once a day, which is 4 - 10 times bigger than our neighbours and get 2 eggs a day from 3 four year olds, our neighbours get less from 8 hens, we have given them all names and they have their own personalities. The neighbours want to know when we will replace them and we keep telling them that they are still laying why get rid of them and we dred the day we will have to.
Using your template.
1 ) four years ago we bought 5 one month brown hens.
2) we only have 3 three now one was pecked so badly and we had to ask a neighbour to put it down and to our suprised was given back all prepaired for the freezer. The other damaged herself laying a very large egg and was bleading badly and went the same way.
3) common garden brown hens
4) looking up information on chickens using google
5) Gardening and living the Sicilian way & not doing very well with the local dialect.
6) We had a canary and I made him a 2m x .5 x .5 (6ft x 18ins x18ins) cage with wheels to get him out side in the morning and it was the talk of the local comunity, but unfortunatly he died while being looked after by a Sicilian neighbour and they gave us a budgie as a replacement (not that it could) We do not know his history or age he was very timid and has a leg deformity, but after 4 months is starting to show his personality.
