i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

[BDutch]

You have an excellent site to get in contact with breeders/sellers!

https://www.irishfowl.com/irish-poultry-breeders.php

https://www.irishfowl.com/search.php?q=Bantams&x=0&y=0

 

[pollipazzi]

You have an excellent site to get in contact with breeders/sellers!

https://www.irishfowl.com/irish-poultry-breeders.php

https://www.irishfowl.com/search.php?q=Bantams&x=0&y=0

they don't have many recent breeders. i looked at some websites links from there and some are not there anymore and one had
going out of business.
we have donedeal.ie instead of craigslist, but there's like 4 listings with pairs. and they are very far away.
i will keep looking and thank you for the suggestions. i will try them!
hopefully the ones made for us will appear. these ones surely did!

 

[pollipazzi]

also, i'll see about getting more space for them sorted before, so i'll be ready for a change.

 

[pollipazzi]

You have an excellent site to get in contact with breeders/sellers!

https://www.irishfowl.com/irish-poultry-breeders.php

https://www.irishfowl.com/search.php?q=Bantams&x=0&y=0

i think i'm getting on the right track! and there's "poultry couriers" that will collect them for you if they are very far away. seems i am not the only one who isn't near breeders.

 

[pollipazzi]

in other news, my new greenhouse is fab! and everything is growing! first signs of tomatoes and actual peppers. (if any of you are partial to gardening)

 

[pollipazzi]

and yes. i had to buy more pots.

 

[tlcmurphy]

in other news, my new greenhouse is fab! and everything is growing! first signs of tomatoes and actual peppers. (if any of you are partial to gardening)
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Lovely!

 

[pollipazzi]

Lovely!

thanks! i'm really happy

 

[BDutch]

(if any of you are partial to gardening)

I was, but not in a greenhouse. I gave up several years ago bc having chickens and gardening is not a good combination.

 

[pollipazzi]

I was, but not in a greenhouse. I gave up several years ago bc having chickens and gardening is not a good combination.

i am sure it's not! this will be my first garden season with chickens, so we'll see.
so far, so good.
i already had hoops with bird nets on all the raised beds because of the crows and wood pigeons and cats, so the chickens don't bother with that at all. and the greenhouse is easy enough to keep them out. if it's very warm (hardly ever) and i have to keep the doors open, i clip bird netting to the door opening and nobody goes in.
we'll see what happens when the plants in the raised beds get too big for the netting and i have to take it off.

so far, still, the only plant (besides grass and dandelion seeds) they nibble on is the fennel. i even put a fennel plant and some grass (in a pot) in the run for them.
it does smell really good, though.
they also have another pot in the run with thyme, kale, a snap pea plant, and borage. they don't touch it.