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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...

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...

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.

they are lovely, i forced my husband to help last weekend and we got enough for wine

Thanks kind of you Green Aura, thanks :)

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.

thank you :)

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...

thankyou brewtrog. We've missed this years flowers, but I can't wait until next year to be proven right

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...

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 ...

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!

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.

got a load of bog myrtle flowers and became excited about the amount of flowers on the blaeberry bushes

glad to see that T***o is starred out on these forums...