Recent content by neolithic2005

Thank you weimarmama! Spring has kicked in beautifully here in the South of Hungary and our chickens roam freely within the land exploring, and finding, new places where to sand bathe and scratch for grubs and seeds, I am buying at the moment free-range eggs from a family down the road (our only...

Thank you Kevin565! Once our deer fence is up we hope to also keep some Racka and Cikta sheep, and Mangalica pigs - I see that the Hungarian dog breed 'Puli' is in the 'Other Pets and Livestock Database', gazing upon them always makes me smile.

Thank you 1muttsfan! I'll be checking the link you kindly sent me. I wonder if you ever found out how many is too many chickens? We plan to keep the original 1 rooster, and 4 chickens core, and add other feathered cousins that might get along with the chickens, such as 1 or 2 turkeys, guinea...

Thank you 4-H chicken mom! I must confess Ohio is one of the places we looked at when we were deciding where to go to find our fortune, and land; in the end we knew we would miss Europe too much and Hungary seemed to place a tick in most boxes. I notice you are the keeper of two Weimaraners, I...

Thank you off-grid hen! Being in the reality of off-grid is so wonderful, my chest never ever hurts anymore when taking in lung-fulls of fresh air - stress is relegated to where the bright lights shine (we only have a mobile shop and the ice-cream man who come to the village, a soda-water man...

Thank you for the welcome! My Hungarian partner's family name is Farkas, and he has many family relatives living in Canada, mainly descendants from an uncle that emigrated there in the 60's! I look forward to comparing notes on raising chickens in different continents.

A big hello to all nature and chicken lovers here. My name is Elizabeth and I moved to Hungary about 5 years ago. I live in a very small village in the South of the country, blessed with unspoiled nature and the wonderful Zselics hills, and natural parks everywhere (and of course, with its...

Wonderful chicken coop; it achieves a lovely balance of sustainability, pleasing living area and animal comfort, long may you and the happy chickens enjoy it. After looking through so many over elaborate designs this is the one that comes the closest to what we aim to build in our own land...