Poulet de Barbezieux hatched on Sunday.
Interestingly they are black with white bellies and the middle toe is also white.
I thought they might be crossed with something but apparently they have this pattern when hatches and then turn completely black.
Just put 13 barbezieux eggs in the incubator! Their eggs are huge! Like turkey eggs. Got them from a lady on border of england and Wales who imported parent stock from France last year
Yes...
In fact they told everyone to keep their birds indoors before they discovered bird flu in the UK. They did it as precaution after finding it on turkey farm in Holland!
All poultey keeper in the UK have been ordered to keep their birds indoor (under roof) for 30 days starting on 6th of December. Geese have been exempt for some reason interestingly!
Hopefully it's all gone soon. We don't want it to spread. So far the disease have been recorded once in the UK -...
I went to the city centre market yesterday. On guy was selling what he described as "jumbo duck eggs". They were as big as goose eggs!! Maybe double yolkers
I've caught two foxes before. One in snares (already dead when I got there) and other one in live trap.
I promised I will make a fur hat from the next one!
Hello!
How's everyone?
Hope better than us!!!
Mr Fox doesn't care if they are my prized extremely rare red dorking, my breeders for next year which I had carefully selected and got rid of all the inferior birds. Mr Fox just kills them ALL!!!
I found ALL my chickens dead this morning. All of...
Where abouts in the country are you again?
We had some frost but no snow at all last week!
Today - 15*C!!!!
Weekend is supposed to be frosty again! Really weird year... first we had snow in April, then no rain for almost two months in summer now one week frost one week almost summer then frost...