- May 2, 2013
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Hi I know most of you live in the States so just to let you know Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean.
Just got our first 10 chickens from local farmer/feed centre locally. Many Cypriots keep chickens and we have plenty of land, so we thought we'd add to our animals (2 doags and 2 cats) by giving some chickens a good home to free range.
Hubby built a nice coop from old bits of wood and added a chicken wire run with plenty of shade as it gets up to 40 C here in summer. We'll let them free range outside once they've had a week or so getting used to us and the dogs!
I think we have a hybrid type of chicken, a brown one like an ISB Brown, good layers so far as have had 18 eggs in 2.5 days even though I thought it would take a few days fro them to settle.
Came here for lots of great advice on how much feed to give, how you can check their age etc (mine are supposed to be 1 year old approx).
Great to be here
Just got our first 10 chickens from local farmer/feed centre locally. Many Cypriots keep chickens and we have plenty of land, so we thought we'd add to our animals (2 doags and 2 cats) by giving some chickens a good home to free range.
Hubby built a nice coop from old bits of wood and added a chicken wire run with plenty of shade as it gets up to 40 C here in summer. We'll let them free range outside once they've had a week or so getting used to us and the dogs!
I think we have a hybrid type of chicken, a brown one like an ISB Brown, good layers so far as have had 18 eggs in 2.5 days even though I thought it would take a few days fro them to settle.
Came here for lots of great advice on how much feed to give, how you can check their age etc (mine are supposed to be 1 year old approx).
Great to be here