Posts Tagged ‘Black’
Seven different chicks at twenty days old:
Rhode Island Red
Black Austrolorp
Golden Laced Cochin
Silver Capped Polish
Cuckoo Maran
California White
Americaunus
They get a new coop in less than a week!
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Dallas, TX has a very successful Peep at the Coops Tour.
Another way Urbanites are getting in touch with Mother Nature by keeping Chickens. It’s part of Peep at the Coop Tour today.
11 of East Dallas’ homes opened their doors for visitors interested in being more self sufficient. Visitors learned how to farm there own vegetables, make compost, and raise chickens.
Robert Olivier from CompostMania is briefly seen in this video holding the collection bucket for his BioPod™ Plus as he is on his way to feed the chickens some delicious soldier grubs.
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Grimsby Birdman Big Al offers coop guidance to amateur Eggheads.Takes you into the coop. The pace is frenetic, the action shocking. It’s impossible not to empathise with him and his close knit flock.
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Ian from perfect poultry let us collect a few eggs to take home with us before giving us some advice on which breeds we should get.
We eventually chose a Light Sussex, which we will eat, a Black Rock, and a Calder Ranger.
He also sold us some feeding equipment.
Visit the perfect poultry website.
http://www.perfectpoultry.co.uk/
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Simeon and I went to Perfect Poultry near Guildford in Surrey to buy our chickens. We still had not decided on what breed we wanted and we hoping to get some advice when we got there.
Perfect Poultry is run by Ian Bell who was very friendly and helpful and show us the whole facility and process from fertilising the eggs right through incubating them, hatching them and then growing them.
We explained to him that we have capacity for about 3 chickens and are mainly interested in eggs but would like one bird that we could fatten for the table. We also suggested that we would like to have three different types of chicken so that they (and their eggs) are easier to tell apart. So, for eggs he recommended a Calder Ranger and a Black Rock, both of which should lay over 300 eggs in a year and for the table a Light Sussex, which will also lay eggs, around 240 per year. I am not expecting it to be the best meat I have ever tasted as I have heard that breeds that lay lots of eggs don’t make good meat as lots of the protein and stuff that would have made meat is lost to make eggs. But the Light Sussex is supposed to be relatively good for both.
Visit their website:
http://www.perfectpoultry.co.uk/
Music: ‘No More’ by EMU/Dan Palmer. Used with permission.
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This breed originated in China or somewhere in Southeast Asia. Silkies have soft hair like feather. They also have five toes and unlike other chicken breeds they have black skin. They are sweet natured and friendly. However the hens tend to be broody, which is why other breeders use them to hatch the eggs of other breeds.
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This video shows an unusual chicken breed in unusual looks. Most Ameraucanas seen somewhere else are most likely mixed. In this video, they are in their original colors and genes. The black and red ones are Wheatens, while the grey and red ones are Blue Wheatens. The white ones are Ameraucana hens, while the others are other breeds. The white rooster is a splash, which is like a “wild card”.
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