[langdon]

please dont worry im not giving any of my chucks away (we love them)
what i mean is me and beth were outside this afternoon looking at our youngsters happily in their own
little runs before going in with the biggies!
then we realised if all are going to be comfortable cos we have hatched quite a few now we are going to have to set up
a few more homes around the place.
we are really excited about little chicken runs about the place.
we came to realise this when we tried to let all the recent young ones roam together and the older ones attacked at once!
so there we are.
sorry if boring but i just have to writ something on ere all the time ADDICTED!!.
langdon

[doganjo]

ADDICTED!!!!    You're not alone - I'm on here and haven't even taken my dogs out yet!
But if you have lots of little chicken coops they'll all cram into one!  Ah, just re-read that - lots of runs you mean, presumably keeping difference breeds separate all with their own little home?
Sounds lovely!
Ok, dogs now, bye folks!

[bamford6]

yes i no whot you mean .i would build some arcs for the field. i started like you i naw have 55 pens in the field and a nursery for 5oo feed bill at the moment is £150 a week chick crumbs 2 bags a day and mixed corn 3 hours twice a day when you get up to 5oo birds takes a lot off work .iff you are going to cross get some that will make you some money rhode island red Sussex ..silki cross light Sussex make 12 a bird at the moment

[little blue]

we came to realise this when we tried to let all the recent young ones roam together and the older ones attacked at once!

we had 6 girls in the shed (Gladys and her cronies!) and tried adding little ones.... carnage!
but we've called their bluff (though only 4 now) by putting them in with the ex-bats, late at night.
there's been no problems really.... think the change of "territory" makes a big difference to stroppy hens.  the ex-bats are very dopey anyway!