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Finally going to fetch the flock this Sunday and bring them to the farm

In the bottom photo there is no doubt that the Asil is the dad for most of them, just look at those little dinosaurs.

I miss my chickens dearly, havent seen them in 5 months. Since the last update I have sold the barred chickens(potch Koekoek), the jubilee coloured hens(Boschvelder) and the adult Indian game Roo and hen. The building on the farm have been a rollercoaster ride of note, thing are only starting...

Nice write up, and great on you for not giving up. In permaculture the eggs and meat from chickens is mostly a by product. The main product is the compost and soil health. In one of his videos Geoff Lawton have a nice show of his chicken setup in the greening the desert location, instead of...

any luck with the pics yet?

in my experience with the breed is that the pullets will show a tail way before the Roos does

Hi, just reminding you to candle the dozen eggs in the incubator this weekend... :D

The one silkie also decided to go broody, she has some Asil x RIR and Asil x Buff Sussex underneath her

The move is around the corner, just a little more then 30 days remaining. Last night I couldn't find the one hen when I went to go and close the coop. I wasn't worried about her and knew she went of to go and brood somewhere, she is my best forager of the lot. A Small hen, can fly well and very...

Thank you very much, it is quite frightening, but we are looking forward to it

For now I will not be putting anymore eggs in the incubator. We will be going away for a month and upon our return we will immediately move to the farm. If a hen does go broody, I will have a few Aseel cross eggs be put under her. Timelines are tough, we are not near ready at the farm, while...

My Indian game hen also sat on 6 eggs and hatched 5. One of them looked very week and didn't make it. Seeing how young both she and the Indian game roo is, I'm quite satisfied with the progress thus far.

Things have been quite hectic at work. So my Pekin hatched out 5 babies. I hatched out another 5 in the incubator at the same time. She adopted the other 5 and looked after the 10 extremely well. 7 of those were pure Indian game and the other 3 could be anything. Past Saturday night we had a...

Wow awesome, how do you keep them fresh for 2 weeks please?

How is it going now?

Thanks, will have a look at them, Im guessing the older days is actually broad, and I would like to keep it that way, as to cover (almost) everything. Something that was done a certain way in 1910 was done differently to 1950 which is different to today. I can get most of the stuff I look for...

Hi All Im looking for a forum or some literature on how people lived and survived in the old days. Stuff like what did they use for toilet paper, what did they feed all their animals? Thanks

I'm still trying to get an American game, OEG or Sumatra, but I did get a nice young Asil stag. Have him in with the buff Sussex, RIR, Koekoek and Boschvelder. Will give it some time and then start hatching some eggs. Currently I have a bunch of mixed eggs in the incubator. Some Koekoek rooster...

At first I thought of not bothering getting an incubator as I want broodiness in my flock and will just use the broody hens to be the moms. However I need to get my flock going and in order to do that I need to churn out more chicks now then when my flock is established and I just want to...