The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: sokel on September 12, 2013, 08:52:57 am
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Been thinking about this for the last few days and wondered if anyone would be interested in some Hubbards ?
this is the first time for us growing our own Chicken for the table and TBH the more we think about it we will never use 51 chickens ourselves ::)
If anyone would be interested in a few just give me a shout, they are just over 2 weeks old , growing well, feathering up nicely and tucking in to food like there is no tomorrow
Not sure what to charge at this stage but if interested we can talk about it
would probably let 21 go and keep 30 ourselves
we are 17 miles south of hexham but do travel around the north a bit
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Still 15 available, we are traveling up to motherwell tomorrow morning if anyone is interested we could meet them on route
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Can't manage to rear them this year Graham - I'm hoping you'll still have a few to sell full-grown / oven-ready?
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Probably will Sally. We are keeping 30 back anyway so some will be spare
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:thumbsup: :yum:
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Still have some available. Feathered up nicely and only have the heat lamp on at NIght now
They are growing like weeds :thumbsup:
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hi would be very interested but you are much too far away. Please could you let me know where you got chicks from as if in scotland would be interested
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No the chicks didn't come from Scotland, they where brought up north as day olds
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Still some spare ones available
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Quick pic at 3 weeks old
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I feel just a little bit guilty now because we've had 3 separate clutches hatched by our hens but in each case we just left them to get on with it themselves (apart from providing food of course).
No heat lamp for ours, just free ranging in the fields and woods - as a former southerner myself I was impressed with how tough our northern chicks are! ;D
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Richard yours where with mums these where incubator hatched so needed the lamp
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These are now feathered and off heat. Almost 5 weeks old.
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Do you ever come south at all? Maybe as far as Darlington?
I'd love to have some Hubbards again...
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We do come over to Washington quite often if that's any help ?, we where actually at scotch corner on Thursday
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Oh darn! Not going that way again any time soon are you?
Washington is a bit far sadly.
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No trips planned , however we do seem to be doing a lot of spur of the moment Journeys at recently ::)
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Woul like some firtile eggs to incubate at the end of the month if anyone has any?
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Still have some ready to go. They are 6 weeks old now
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Pics taken today
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Still have some of these left, they are now free ranging during the day when its not chucking it down ::)
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I was almost tempted but have just killed 3 light Sussex cockerels and plucking them has put me off, think I will leave the meat birds to others.they do look good birds though :thumbsup:
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Have to admit that plucking isn't one of my favourite jobs, I do find it either gets easier or you seem to get the hang of it the more you do :-\