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mal55
Joined: 15 Jul 2009 Posts: 168 Location: Erewash or in the dog house
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Posted: Wed May 24, 23 9:52 am Post subject: |
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We're well out of it!
I seem to have infected our lad with the love of rare breeds! Although concentrating on French breeds, We aren't averse to others. As I said, we are looking at Icelandic chickens that are reputed to be pretty much as good layers as hybrids, very hardy and wirh ultra-protective cocks. We are also after Shetlands, Bressé Grisé, and are getting Ardennaise soon. I'm still after Noires de Caussades too.
I want to add a photo of our gorgeous LaFlêche boy Russell Crow but I can't find how to do it! He's 10 months old, weighs about 4kgs and is still growing. He is our prime cock for the breed for this year.
I bought one in Paris over Easter - a hen bird barely big enough for four of us and it cost me €30!! It still had its head and legs on, so I cluld see, even without the label, exactly what it was. Boy was it good!! We washed it down with a bottle of Croze-Hermitage and one of Poilly Fumee. Oh man![/url] |
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dpack
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Posted: Thu May 25, 23 10:43 am Post subject: |
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grannie was a big fan of rhode island reds as rooster and something white with a few speckles, maybe suffolk, as hens for a batch of multi use hybrids
that flock then lived with either a new white or red rooster as time passed
good layers, delicious birds, not too much trouble to wrangle
my barnvelders were delightful and found assorted ways to die very quickly
the dirty four dozen were ex "free range" GBH layers, once they stopped being scared of outdoors they trained up a treat as a with the moos flock, they devastated the wildlife, i got some ace eggs, and they lasted the grazing season
the effort of wrangling them, moving them and the toll on the wildlife was too high, although they did improve the soil and reduce some pests a bit, so we did not repeat the experiment
they were beyond free range, some went full Kurtz ![](images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) |
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mal55
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mal55
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mal55
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mal55
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