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Showing posts with label Ixworths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ixworths. Show all posts
Sunday, 22 July 2018

It's a short life for a meat chicken

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This seems a long time ago now Six months does not seem a long time for a table bird to live before it makes the journey into the freeze...
Friday, 30 March 2018

Keeping Chickens for Meat

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29th March 2018 I am keeping a diary of the progress of Ewe 0004 and her lamb, but I am going to publish it all at once when I know what th...
Saturday, 4 November 2017

Chicken Fried Lice

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Sunday 22nd October 2017 Rounding up the meat birds ***Warning*** This post concerns itself with the slaughter and processing of chicke...
Monday, 17 July 2017

I Need To Plan A New Hatch

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We like to rear a few birds for the table, aiming for a couple of geese, half a dozen turkeys, a dozen Muscovy ducks and about 30 chickens a...
Thursday, 11 May 2017

Tales of the turkey clan and more

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After a straight drive of almost 12 hours I arrived home from North Ronaldsay very late at night, so there was no time to pop in and look at...
Saturday, 11 February 2017

Bird Flu - The Latest

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It's that sign again. Another proclamation from The Ministry. The poor chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys have now been confined in...
Sunday, 22 January 2017

A winter week on the smallholding

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A fairly typical winter week on the smallholding. Sunday 8th January 2017 - Poultry, Pruning and Pickling The chickens have settled int...