Archive for February, 2011
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Just Waffle :)
Hello peeps
Over the past few days we can tell that you are all thinking about the new hatching season as our hatching eggs are taking off! Luckily our chickens are really starting to knuckle down to business if you know what I mean. I’m no David Attenborough however I can now distinguish the noises [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Chick Rearing, Chicken Health, Hatching | Fertile Egg Care, P&T Waffle :), incubation, red mite control by Claire
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
P&T Poultry on Twitter??
Hello All,
It is great so many read our blog but I am afraid following all your emails, we will not be going on twitter, well not in 2011 anyway.
I appreciate for many twitter is a vital peice of information but as there truly are not enough hours in the day for us to go on [...]
Comments Off - Posted in P&T Waffle :) by trevor
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
New Chicks
As the weather is getting warmer our cockeralls are getting more and more amerous and our hens are also stepping upto the challenge - as a result we have some little day old chicks
We decided that we would try and incubate the first few eggs of the season and the result is a lot of cheeping in [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Chick Rearing, Hatching | Fertile Egg Care, P&T Waffle :) by Claire
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Cheap Imported Incubators
Over the last few months there has been a influx of people buying incubators in bulk from europe and selling them here in the UK but if there are issues with them and the sellers are not covering the warranties we are expected to cover this for some reason I trully do not understand.
I personally oversee [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Incubators by trevor
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Hatching Eggs - Incubators
Well finally the days are getting longer and the egg laying hormone is returning to the hens and the cockerels are getting more active you can concider incubating your fertile eggs again.
However please remember we are just into Feb, this means it is still cold hatching eggs must be collected very fresh and stored at 8-10c [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Incubators, incubation by trevor
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Cleaning out chickens
Hello everyone
Well yesterday I had my first experience at cleaning out chickens! To start I thought that it would be a heinous task and that I had been lucky to escape it until now, however I was surprised. We have a selection of Seabrights, Dorkings, RIR house and runs and then some larger chicken [...]
