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- Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:54 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: raising chickens for meat
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18074
Re: raising chickens for meat
Thanks! I was thinking of crossing indian game with labresse, and guessed from what i've read that it would take 5-6 months to get a decent weight. That's OK with me. I think I'd rather avoid the white zombie chickens that grow to beachball size within 6 weeks. Will give it a try with maybe 10-15 bi...
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 11:31 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: raising chickens for meat
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18074
raising chickens for meat
I love eating chicken but the guilt of buying lidl chiken is getting too much. So I've been thinking of rearing some myself. I was thinking of buying a set of ebay eggs and hatching them, see how that goes in terms of how much they need feeding and how fast they put on weight. Then keeping a cockere...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: cream legbars with white-green ears?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12965
Re: cream legbars with white-green ears?
yes i think they are healthy, no sign of flakiness or irritation. I got my legbars from down the road but hatched ebay duck eggs before, got 5 out of 6! good luck with yours.
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 4:58 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14766
Re: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
they are lovely, i forced my husband to help last weekend and we got enough for wine
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 4:57 pm
- Forum: Looks like we made it
- Topic: i made an etsy shop
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24867
Re: i made an etsy shop
Thanks kind of you Green Aura, thanks :)
- Fri Aug 05, 2016 1:53 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14766
Re: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
oh i shall definitely be after the berries. i'm going to make blaeberry wine next as we have so many in the woods - they are little wild blueberries. made this before and it was one of my best efforts.
- Fri Aug 05, 2016 1:51 pm
- Forum: Looks like we made it
- Topic: i made an etsy shop
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24867
Re: i made an etsy shop
thank you :)
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 1:38 pm
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: cream legbars with white-green ears?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12965
cream legbars with white-green ears?
I have some cream legbar hens, chicks from April. Their earlobes are coming in a funny white colour, tinged with greenishness in the same way that glow-in-the-dark pigment is. Some of them have normal red ears though, some have patches of both. Is this normal or some kind of ailment? They are perfec...
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 1:33 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14766
Re: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
thankyou brewtrog. We've missed this years flowers, but I can't wait until next year to be proven right
- Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:37 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14766
Re: elderflower wine (or champagne)...
my other half has a problem with elderflower champagne - the last few years he's tried making it it always turns into a vinegar-smelling wallpaper paste. i reckon its because he likes to use the natural yeasts and not brewing yeast, so i think whatever good helpful yeasts are there are not present i...
- Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:30 am
- Forum: Looks like we made it
- Topic: i made an etsy shop
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24867
Re: i made an etsy shop
haha I hadn't signed into this forum for months! and see my old thread has replies now. my shop has moved on a bit from back then! i'm back here now to look at the homebrew section :drunken: got some meadowsweet wine on the go and am inspired. Anyway, thank you Green Aura, I probably have more hare ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:24 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: what to do with myself and my land...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6022
Re: what to do with myself and my land...
thomzo - you may be right, we have a lot of blaeberries growing wild here, which i think are basically runty blueberries. and willow loves it here. i've been wanting to try growing blueberries anyway, if they do well it might be worth thinking about, they seem super expensive in the shops anyway!
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:01 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: what to do with myself and my land...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6022
Re: what to do with myself and my land...
i saw an otter here the other day. i got all excited before convincing myself it was a mink that will eat all my chickens.
- Sat May 10, 2014 5:53 pm
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: what are you foraging today
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7037
Re: what are you foraging today
got a load of bog myrtle flowers and became excited about the amount of flowers on the blaeberry bushes
- Thu May 08, 2014 4:12 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: What i'm brewing at the moment
- Replies: 356
- Views: 236000
Re: What i'm brewing at the moment
glad to see that T***o is starred out on these forums...