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Tuesday 15 December 2009

nearly xmas already!!!!!

Wow, I cant believe how the time has pasted me by, Ive not updated this blog before now because i just havent had the TIME!!. I now work 3 days a week so trying to fit in my allotment, the gardening, the animals ect is really hard. I also have taken on some land with my friend Tracey so we can either breed Poultry or set up a Poultry sanctuary, we havent yet decided which, we are just waiting for the land to be cleared and dug over.
Since my last post, i have incubated a further 6 eggs, having 3 hatched. Also "Dusty" went broody so i brought 6 eggs off ebay "silver spangled hamburgs" and "Merrydales" gave me 1 of thier eggs they had spare a "partridge pekin", 2 of the spangles & the partridge hatched. Dusty looked after them very well but unfortunately 1 spangle died, think the wind blown the door on it therefore killing it :(
December the 12th i treated Tracey to some duck eggs for xmas,(from ebay) I let her borrow my incubator so she could hopefully watch them hatch, will let you know how she got on in the next update.
Yesterday I brought 6 silkie chicks (3 white & 3 blue) from a young girl that has hatched them herself from her own silkie chickens. It was great to see a young girl of 12yrs old having a great interest by keeping, breeding and selling her own chickens.

1 comments:

Sunny said...

Hi Lou! Good to see you posting again! I know what you mean about the work taking up time. I also have a hard time fitting it all in. I am glad you are able to have had some of your chicks hatch. We used to hatch some in an incubator, but then started letting the hens do the work. I had 3 three silkies last year but sold them at our fall auction ao I could cut the flock down to be more manageable. Best of luck with yours , and have a very prosperous new year! I look forward to hearing about your gardening ventures this spring!