I’ve neglected to post anything in a while. I’ve been busy with life and our baby is due any day now.
But I’m not the only one expecting! I have 2 Pekins, one lavender frizzle and one silver partridge both sat on some hatching eggs. A mix of lavender and gold partridge. Both hens are sitting [...]
Filed under: Chicks, Eggs, Pekin Bantams on April 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Alas I lost my Pekin cock bird Denzel today. A nasty bout of sour crop that ended up spreading meant that although we tried to treat him and hoped he would recover, in the end meant he had to be put down.
He was a lovely chap to have around. Friendly for a cock bird, didn’t [...]
Filed under: Pekin Bantams, Poultry health on November 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
Little Egg was one of our incubator hatched eggs this year. Alas we had a poor hatch rate and only 2 of 9 made it to the final few days before hatching. Both pipped but then one chick died in it’s shell. Only Litte Egg (the smallest egg from the batch) hatched.
Little Egg aged [...]
Filed under: Pekin Bantams on August 26th, 2007 | No Comments »
…what I know now, I may never have decided that keeping chickens would be a good idea. Luckily, I was blissfully unaware and a couple of years later, here I am in the process of putting together this weblog on chicken keeping, its joys, its pitfalls and all the bits inbetween.
I arrived at the decision [...]
Filed under: Pekin Bantams on August 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »