France, first posting

[starbrite]

Hello from South Brittany, France.

http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll4/starbritefr/?special_track=nav_tab_album

 

[CarlaRiggs]

Bonjour, Starbrite!

Welcome to the Backyard Chicken Forum...

Carla Riggs
southern California

 

[cjeanean]

Hope you like it here!!!! What kind of geese are those???? Your goat is so cute!!!

 

[starbrite]

Thanks for the welcome CarlaRiggs, hi cjeanean, the Geese are Toulouse, a lot friendlier than most Geese, we have, 2 Goats (and a baby to born any day now), 11 chickens, 2 Geese, 7 Ducks (but will be 5 at the end of today), 1 Cockerel ( a Gauloise) 5 Jack Russels and 3 cats. I'm building a new house that will either have Turkeys or more Geese.
The chicks are all for eggs, we are now incubating eggs hopefully to get our meat chicks.
These geese are pets, we hope they are a breeding pair, all future geese are for meat.
The ducks are for eating.
The goats are pets.

I'm not sure if you have heard of Hugh Fernley Whittingstall over your side of the pond, he's a self sufficiency guru, a few years back he had a television series called River Cottage, when he rented out a cottage in Dorset, from there he started producing his on food, scavenging for food, and rearing his own animals, from there he moved up to a farm, with a restaurant where his farm produced all the food for the restaurant. He and Chef Jamie Oliver now front the "chicken out campaign" for better conditions for chickens. Because of him and changing attitudes by the British public most super markets have now stopped selling eggs from caged birds, also wont sell products where caged birds eggs are used. Chicken welfare has also improved, not perfect but getting better. Here in France its not happening as quick, but eggs from caged birds will be illegal in Europe next year.

I'm not sure what your admin will allow, but heres a few links;

River Cottage

http://www.rivercottage.net/

Chicken out campaign

http://www.chickenout.tv/

Jamie Oliver

http://www.jamieoliver.com/

My wife feeding the chicks

 

[Portia]

Welcome starbrite. Nice place you have there.

 

[chcknrs]

Nice place you have, nice place here on BYC, too!

 

[Curlita]

Bon jour and bienvenue!

(hope I spelled that right... been a long time since High School French class!)

 

[gumpsgirl]

Right back at' ya! Hello from Virginia! Happy to have you!

 

[starbrite]

I've just updated http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll4/starbritefr/ and http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll4/starbritefr/video/ I've got new chicks , geese and sheep.

 

[nccountrygirl]

Welcome starbrite, congrats on your chicks, geese and sheep.