Peeps in Europe!

[abpatchy]

@Maiahr here is a listing of hatching Lakenfelder eggs in Germany. https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-lakenfelder-bruteier/k0
I am assuming that you would have to travel thru Germany to get to the Netherlands. Unless you are flying.

 

[kwik-kwak]

Yes and no My trip to the NL has been postponed until end of September or beginning of October. I was able to find a Dutch man, non-chickener, who found a Brabanter breeder in the NL and so I have secured eggs, when I finally get there. I have not been able to find Nederlandse uilenbaard or Lakenfelder. BTW you mentioned a friend of yours has Silver Lakenfelder? Do you know what size they are. I was told there isn't such thing as LF Lakenfelder - they are all bantams???

Seller eggs
In this link someone is offering eggs form the uilebaard and lakenfelder.

 

[Maiahr]

@Maiahr here is a listing of hatching Lakenfelder eggs in Germany. https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-lakenfelder-bruteier/k0
I am assuming that you would have to travel thru Germany to get to the Netherlands. Unless you are flying.

Thanks.. I will be flying...

 

[abpatchy]

Thanks.. I will be flying...

Well, you could check with this guy in the Netherlands.. https://www.facebook.com/martijn.sonder.77 I just saw that he as Lakenfelder as well. Not sure if they are LF or bantam

 

[Maiahr]

Well, you could check with this guy in the Netherlands.. https://www.facebook.com/martijn.sonder.77 I just saw that he as Lakenfelder as well. Not sure if they are LF or bantam

I will! Thank you!

 

[abpatchy]

Remember the feed I ordered in spring? I was able to get it a little cheaper as well. And I wanted to be prepared for shortages. I thought I had enough for the rest of the year.
Well... I had to buy some more recently because it was all gone. But I calculated pretty good. I'd rather buy some more than I have feed left over.

Show time is just about here. I'll be have 4 shows within 3 weekends starting with the last weekend of October. Excited but also worried (like every year ) that my birds are not good enough.

 

[BDutch]

Ok, I am now into 2 other chicken topics:

1. Heating chicken water during the winter using solar light... I am researching options.
2. Growing my own protein rich food. I have tried superworms and it works. I will now be trying with Lemna and with grasshoppers. I am also looking to buy BSF larvae - not available in Bulgaria.

So any ideas, wisdom, articles, experience on these two topics, are highly appreciated.

I would ask the first question in a new thread.

What are BSF? Buying BSF might be a stupid idea if these are not in our normal habitat in Europe. You don’t want to introduce an invasive species.

 

[chickengr]

I would ask the first question in a new thread.

What are BSF? Buying BSF might be a stupid idea if these are not in our normal habitat in Europe. You don’t want to introduce an invasive species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetia_illucens

 

[BDutch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetia_illucens

They obviously are spread in West Africa. But I never saw these type of flies here in the Netherlands.

 

[abpatchy]

No but you can buy the larvea here. They are dried like mealworms and supposedly healthier than mealworms as they contain less fat and more calcium.
I saw a youtube video once of a small start up company breeding these larvea and they said that they cannot live here in nature. They wouldn't survive because of the cold climate. Not sure how true this is since our summers have been pretty warm and the winters almost nonexisting. They are a lot more expensive than the mealworms though.