Bat
Songster
- Oct 21, 2017
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Hello everyone, just thought I’d make a quick intro but first I’d like to say thanks for posting all of your tips and advice up here. It’s helped us out of a bind on more than a 1000 occasions.
My wife Sarah and I live out in Oxfordshire, England and have recently begun expanding our family with chickens. We’ve been hatching eggs that are either from my mother’s random bantam stock or from shipped/local collected eggs for the past 4-5 months.
Our first clutch went in at the beginning of June 2017 and consisted of 5 random bantams as a control and 6 chamois polish. Of these we ended up with 3 random bantam roosters and two polish (we strongly suspect) hens. We rehomed one rooster and will shortly be dispatching of one other for the sake of the neighbours.
Our second clutch went in during late July and produced one random bantam rooster, and a frizzle rooster and hen. They have just moved outside into a smaller coop next to the main run.
Our last clutch went in mid September and produced 6 vorwerk, our first 100% hatch rate. Three are roosters and three are hens. They’re still inside stinking the place up.
So we currently have 13 chickens of various sizes and 6 of them are roosters :-/
I have a feeling most of my questions are going to be about integrating them at this point?!
Other than chickens, we have a band and enjoy drinking wine and eating food.
Thanks for having us.
Bat & Sarah.
My wife Sarah and I live out in Oxfordshire, England and have recently begun expanding our family with chickens. We’ve been hatching eggs that are either from my mother’s random bantam stock or from shipped/local collected eggs for the past 4-5 months.
Our first clutch went in at the beginning of June 2017 and consisted of 5 random bantams as a control and 6 chamois polish. Of these we ended up with 3 random bantam roosters and two polish (we strongly suspect) hens. We rehomed one rooster and will shortly be dispatching of one other for the sake of the neighbours.
Our second clutch went in during late July and produced one random bantam rooster, and a frizzle rooster and hen. They have just moved outside into a smaller coop next to the main run.
Our last clutch went in mid September and produced 6 vorwerk, our first 100% hatch rate. Three are roosters and three are hens. They’re still inside stinking the place up.
So we currently have 13 chickens of various sizes and 6 of them are roosters :-/
I have a feeling most of my questions are going to be about integrating them at this point?!
Other than chickens, we have a band and enjoy drinking wine and eating food.
Thanks for having us.
Bat & Sarah.