[Dave C]

Well with the fox attack killing off my table bird plans I am now starting with a clean slate next season, (as tempting as it is to get the Incy back out I am going to wait)

I will be getting some more Galouise types or maybe La Bresse
But I think the first thing I need to source are a good stock of IG hatching eggs for early next year.

What's your plans for next year?

Anyone doing anything new?

[Fowlman]

I shall be concentrating on the Ixworths mostly, to help promote the breed, raise some table birds and eventually replace my ageing mixed flock of layers. Rear a few German Langshan and light sussex banties. On the look out for some Indian game myself.

[Backinwellies]

rebuild the enclosure that was destroyed when wind blew down 70 foot trees on it!

[Bex]

This time next year I'll be in France. I'll have my laying flock established and be raising my first table birds. Hopefully I'll have some guinea fowl on the go as well. If I don't have the ducks and and quail in yet, OH will be working all hours getting their houses ready and I'll be thinking about fattening a couple of geese for Christmas. If I'm very lucky, I'll have a few weaners too, but they might have to wait 'till the following year. I'll be tending the veg garden of course, hopefully have some fruit on the go and with any luck, we'll have time enough to get a few holidaymakers in before the end of the season. I do hope it's not all a dream! I am so looking forward to it all! 

[Dave C]

It all sounds very nice
Good luck with it 

[Stereo]

I plan to streamline my flocks into more pure breeds and move away from the hybrids we have. I want to create some kind of pasture rotation system with easy to move housing and nets, each with a flock of 30 or so birds in. We've done well on selling hatching eggs this year so I want to expand that next year with more breeds and more birds of the breeds we currently do.

Also want to replace our feeders with Granpas type treddle feeders to reduce our feed losses and also sort some kind of rainwater recovery system so I'm not piping clean drinking water up to the chickens through a tiny hose. Water has been the biggest chore this year.

[Victorian Farmer]

Castle farms for indian game .Don't be put of whith not pure breeds the road/bared rock cuckoo marran/black blue marran good cross will give good egg baskits  .I will have cream legbars bought 12 eggs from 7 breeders inc Top lines for blue egg and yes they are proper legbars .

[doganjo]

I just hope for no repeat of this year - disasters all round.    Onwards and upwards! 

[Marches Farmer]

Same as usual really:  breed from 0nly the very best, watch them like a hawk (a benign hawk, that is), maintain constant vigilance against red mite ......

[bloomer]

I now have a quality trio of dark egg laying black marans, the girls were the ones i brought up from darkbrowneggs flock.


So as soon as they start laying in the new year its incy/broody time, the girls i can sell all day every day and the boys are fine eating...


for the first time i have enough generic stock that we should start actively selling eggs from the house/at mrs b's work!!!


on the not chicken front, we will have our first lambs born in 2015 are looking to start a beehive or 2 oh and if i can get the money for the fencing am seriously thinking about goats.
Oh and it will be our first full year with a proper veg patch!!!
2015 is going to be a mega year for us on the smallholding front!!!

[izard]

hello

my plans are simple, raise the chicks i got atm, completely get rid of all hybrids, mix light sussex and silkies for the following year broodies,

get more light sussex for table birds on the go, maybe cross with indian game, or
pass driving test and get aome welsh blacks

[lord flynn]

Show the Scots Greys I bred this year-has taken me three years to get close to what I want so more of that. I'm also starting with Minorcas early next year and will shortly be picking up a really nice trio of brown Marsh Daisies-not that anyone else wants them! There's also the duck thing-which OH still doesn't know about. Mind you, he doesn't know about the Marsh Daisies either.

[HesterF]

Hatch more buff orpingtons - I only hatched four hens this year, kept two and the other two went as a trio before I'd even advertised them. Fewer gold laced orpingtons - sadly because I think they're stunning but they're not selling for whatever reason. Not sure about ducks - they're a pain to hatch and nobody wants drakes but the ducks have all gone  . And as many geese as I can manage - hopefully I'll have two breeding pens with three laying geese next year. I think my last hatch of the year was brilliant - if I'm right it was five hens from six chicks (two cream legbars, one dorking, one lakenvelder and one welsummer) so they'll all be on egg laying duty. Wondering about guinea fowl for fun and we'll see how the turkey growers go before deciding whether to repeat them. Meantime I have roast dinners planned for the whole winter - 17 Orpington cockerels and a handful of drakes are fattening nicely in addition to the turkeys.

Elsewhere the trellises are going in for the vines so it'll be our first year of properly training the vines. The fruit trees will be more mature and should crop better. And I've signed on the dotted line to start renting our holiday cottage out from May - given it has no roof at the moment, there's still a lot to do on that!

[Womble]

Hatch some females for a change!? 

[Harebell]

Breed more Bourbon Red turkeys, as I love them!  Some will be for eating but as I'll have two adult breeding groups next year I will also be able sell unrelated pairs/trios. 

Continue breeding from my Pilgrim geese which I also love with a passion, perhaps buy in a new unrelated pair. 

Add Silver grey dorkings to the farm - just a few to see how I get on with the breed.