What a dilemma ! Well I'll put my ten Penn'rth in and say Orange/Yellow and Green/ Red. Why them ? Well they both have very good temperament but the deciding factor is that they are the stockier boys, which to my completely inexperienced thinking gives their offspring an advantage. The other way of deciding is to say "which one looks nicest ? " This method is not always the best. I'll give an example. Back in 1974 we went to Bulgaria for our summer hols. None of us spoke Bulgarian, and few of the natives spoke English. One evening we were walking back to our hotel along the promenade and there was a stall selling bottles of wine and my dad thought it would be fun to buy a bottle to take back and have a glass on the balcony. Not only did we not speak any Bulgarian but we didn't read any either so to chose which bottle we decided to go for the nicest looking label. I was only 14 at the time, my sister was 10, and my brother (who turned out to be a complete s**t, stealing over £30,000 from our parents) we were all very excited as we were being allowed to have some wine ! Oooooh. Back to the room and the bottle was opened with much ceremony and poured out. It was in a green bottle, mom wasn't a fan of red wine, but when it was poured out it seemed to be a bit on the thick side. Hmmmmm, must be some local type of plonk. Anyway, bottoms up. We all had a slug. What we had wasn't exactly a fine Chardonnay or a cheeky Moselle, it was in fact ....cooking oil !!! 🤮
Oh my! What a surprise! That was funny and rude, at the same time!! 😂 My suggestions are based on tempers and size. Pretty is not in my view. BUT! YOU DO have to keep it in mind. It's YOUR Future Generations to consider.
I like orange-yellow and green-red, but you're with these guys every day and would know best. As for the fruit cage, I don't think it would be too much work to put a strip of metal mesh around the bottom of it (maybe 1-2 feet high) to keep the rabbits from chewing it. By the way, I've really loved how well you two have handled this nightmare year you had. Of course we only see what you show us, but I've gotten the impression that you handled it all with a smile, mutual encouragement, and the realization that troubles are a normal part of life. Thanks for setting us such a good example!
@@Beaguins The strip is a really good idea! I can't say we haven't had moments of it getting to us this year, but we do realise that the most important thing we have is each other! I (Hugh) actually appreciated that Fiona had to let someone take care of her for a change!
Also in a windy area, polly tunnels are excellent we’ve had the same cover on ours for 10 years, they will need pressure washing or scrubbing once every year at the end of the growing season as algae develops, (not necessarily when their new thought). We just anchor them down with to metal stakes and it’s good to go 😊. Orange blue for the older group, mainly because of temperament and his feathering is correct for the breed standard Green red for the younger group, he seams nice and clean and friendly with a good temperament, and build. if they grow slowly it can indicate low hormones which could mean they are infertile or not very.
For your "range protecter" you can build your own using some lumber scraps to build a box and attach chicken wire over it. For the spring onions, plant a lot and then freeze dry the excess. Cockrel picks is Orange/Yellow & Green/Black
@EnglishCountryLife I have never had a problem with any blowing off and I have 2 a 20 foot and a 30 foot . The plastic is buried down in the ground by about 2 foot. Make sure it's in a sunny spot in the garden and open both ends during the day. I did manage to burn a row of tomatoes this year so I invested in some shade cloth.Hope this helps .
These are problems that so many of us gardeners will benefit from the solutions your viewers suggest. I will be referring back to this video. If you are assembling the greenhouse yourself, I would go with the polycarbonate option. I am going to copy your crop protector cage idea for a few fruit trees that regularly get squirrel and bird pressure. Great video!
I like to resprout the green onions and cut the tops off, cut them up, and freeze them. Mostly because I enjoy green onions as a garnish with many foods. They add such a nice flavor to noodles, soups, etc. I hope that your leg has healed properly and you are back to 100%. As a suggestion, I find that lanolin lotion is very beneficial for bone health. I buy the lotion and rub it on the arch of my foot and cover with a cotton sock (because it is a bit sticky). Lanolin used to be found in many lotions that our ancestors used. All the cockerels look nice so I don't have an opinion. Best to you for the holidays!
Hey folks! I love your channel and am just now trying to catch up on your delightful videos. I just wanted to drop a recommendation before it falls out of my head. I use permeable pavers to grow grass in places that the birds heavily scratch. I use them just like you use the range protectors. I refill, spread seed, sprinkle topsoil and drop a paver on top. Give it a try!
Hey y'all! I live in southeastern US and purchased some through our local home improvement stores. They are also called plastic pavers. I know amazon-US also sells and ships them. They are a landscaping supply commonly used for growing grass in between traditional paving stones or tiles. I use them just like you do your peotectors - to grow grass where my girls have been through. If you can't find them, maybe I can send y'all some for Christmas!
Walk in chicken coops are the best if you have a shed then you could keep up to 25 chickens if it is 8 x 8 shed that is 25 small That big ones about 15 to 20
@@michaelhoskins2006 Not ideal for breeding - we run individual coops for each broody hen & her brood. We place great emphasis on biosecurity (so no wood with cracks etc.)
Have a look at Steve's seaside allotment and kitchen garden, he grows salad onions all rear round and does loads of undercover growing. He's in quite a windy site.
Egyptian walking onions. Just growing them now and they're coming up. People have had success growing them over winter and using like scallions. Plus they're perennial and you can propagate.
Do you have hardware cloth in the UK? That will protect your grass seed...but it IS expensive. Poultry netting will help, but they'll still be able to peck through the openings.
@@karenw9996 We do have it but we call it weld mesh. The advantage the range protectors have is they have small feet built in but fine weld mesh would work
Greenhouse. I live in a windy area that occasionally gets 70mph win storms. So after some disasters we built a 2 by 4 frame greenhouse with polycarbonate roof and upper sides. The bottom sides are wood siding. It’s heavy but seems to be wind proof. It’s built on a 4 by 4 inch wood base. The floor is plywood and hardware cloth so I plant in pots, not in the ground. Which is better for mice anyway. I couldn’t keep an aluminum- framed greenhouse up to save my soul and a polytunnel would be a bad choice. So if you’re exposed to wind, I’d go with wood framed.
Closest I've seen to the grass protection is a wooden frame with mesh stapled on top of it. Possibly some of the driveway mesh protectors? 40mm high makes them an ideal trip hazard in the dark...
Hi! Fiona - it’s marvellous to see you looking so fabulous, in your gorgeous boots ❤. With regards to your potential studs for 2025, I’d like to nominate Orange/Yellow and Green/Black. Much love from Sussex by the Sea
I live in Cumbria and we get a lot of high winds. We've had to build a greenhouse as none of the normal ones can cope. We can't have a Polly tunnel either so my husband is making one. Polly carbon roof over a big sturdy wooden frame with clear tarp around. That's the only way I can grow tomatoes. Love you videos ❤
With regards to your growing tunnel I have seen good things about Polycrub they were designed by Islanders in the Shetlands to cope with their winds using polycarbonate . This is not to say buy one but that a design based on this might be workable, Huw Richards has one and there are other videos on the tube that talk about them Gaz Oakley for example . You are both very savvy when it comes to adapting what you have to benefit you, so sheets of poly and some creative thinking which you both are good at seems like a win, the chicken run to fruit cage is an example. 🙂 Glad to see you both well and that the lovely Fiona is recovering well. Best wishes from Yorkshire
Glad to see you looking good in spite of a year like you have had! I hear you. Will try to come up with a range protector solution. I could use one too.
Okay, I will actually say orange and yellow and let me say I meant scaffolding netting dictation not too good I have a walk in chicken house and it is very easy to clean out. It is a metal shed and there’s loads of room for them. I can keep up to about 20.
Orange blue and green red. We have a green plastic interlocking lawn seed protector which worked well, I’ll get a link from my husband. And polycarbonate for tomatoes and don’t worry about fruit cage this year
Would really appreciate the grass seed protector link! We like the look of polycarbonate but don't know anyone locally who has used it. How are you feeling??
I'm getting my first buffed orpingtons today 🎉. We will be keeping them in an enclosed run. Are wood chips ok to use? I have wood shavings for the inside of the coop.
Spring onions … I’ve never been able to freeze them for storage. They may be great dehydrated. I’d consider that. I have too much dried onion bits and onion powder to try it at the moment. But I’d be interested in knowing if they can freeze and be ok. I plant spring onions but use them fresh dug from the garden. So I try to not over-plant them. A few did get away from me this year and became larger onions (White Lisbons). A bit strong as a medium onion but good in sauces, stews, or soups.
For which cockerel to use for the future, does a stockier build in the cockerel give rise to more meat in the descendants bred for meat? Does it confer an advantage in egg laying or anything like that?
@EnglishCountryLife oh dear. However, there's a way round that through creating earth works. Basically embankments and glass over. Look at permaculture examples of this. It's fascinating. No need to dig down, just bank up.
I feel the slightly Older (3rd) of your own Cockerel: and 3rd, larger of the other eggs, for the Choices. I do like the 2nd smaller one from the Other eggs IS viable. But? Are you aiming for Smaller Chickens? I would only choose Smaller, IF you Aim to Reduce the sizes of Offspring. If he ends up having issues with his size? Perhaps "missing" in his mating? Your eggs will have way less viability. Since this is your Business? I would not take a Chance at the Smaller. Only IF you have the Goal TO Reduce the Sizings!
Good point. They probably won’t during winter time, where metal can get freezing cold and their feet might get stuck to them. I live in Denmark and I have heard of birds (in the very rare harsh winters) have gotten stuck to metal bridge railings and such. As I remember, England and Denmark have similar climate and weather. But there is also different types of plastic or rubber grass protection mesh, for either when one have to park ones car on the lawn or protecting newly sown seeds from smaller birds, like blackbirds and such.
The cockerels are a hard choice, and perhaps a bit early to pick. Depends on how many hens you have of course, so you may well need two or three cockerels. If breed appearance is to your liking, and they are friendly, that puts them in the running for stud muffin. I have seen places with several cocks that get along, and manage their own harems (of roughly 10). So any of the dudes with a bit too much 'attitude' (to humans or the girls) get 'the pot'.
We will only take two through to fertility testing and then reduce to one. We don't breed more than 100 chicks a year so one cockerel is ample - more becomes a welfare issue for the hens
Yes, I know you have a walk-in chicken run, but a walk-in chicken house is beneficial And you can walk in to there chicken coop not one of those stupid omelette things no offence
Spring onions … I’ve never been able to freeze them for storage. They may be great dehydrated. I’d consider that. I have too much dried onion bits and onion powder to try it at the moment. But I’d be interested in knowing if they can freeze and be ok. I plant spring onions but use them fresh dug from the garden. So I try to not over-plant them. A few did get away from me this year and became larger onions (White Lisbons). A bit strong as a medium onion but good in sauces, stews, or soups.
What a dilemma ! Well I'll put my ten Penn'rth in and say Orange/Yellow and Green/ Red. Why them ? Well they both have very good temperament but the deciding factor is that they are the stockier boys, which to my completely inexperienced thinking gives their offspring an advantage. The other way of deciding is to say "which one looks nicest ? " This method is not always the best. I'll give an example. Back in 1974 we went to Bulgaria for our summer hols. None of us spoke Bulgarian, and few of the natives spoke English. One evening we were walking back to our hotel along the promenade and there was a stall selling bottles of wine and my dad thought it would be fun to buy a bottle to take back and have a glass on the balcony. Not only did we not speak any Bulgarian but we didn't read any either so to chose which bottle we decided to go for the nicest looking label. I was only 14 at the time, my sister was 10, and my brother (who turned out to be a complete s**t, stealing over £30,000 from our parents) we were all very excited as we were being allowed to have some wine ! Oooooh. Back to the room and the bottle was opened with much ceremony and poured out. It was in a green bottle, mom wasn't a fan of red wine, but when it was poured out it seemed to be a bit on the thick side. Hmmmmm, must be some local type of plonk. Anyway, bottoms up. We all had a slug. What we had wasn't exactly a fine Chardonnay or a cheeky Moselle, it was in fact ....cooking oil !!! 🤮
@@chrishamilton-wearing3232 You made us laugh - I'll have a pint of rapeseed 🤣
@@EnglishCountryLife You certainly won't be egg bound for a while !
Oh my! What a surprise! That was funny and rude, at the same time!! 😂
My suggestions are based on tempers and size. Pretty is not in my view. BUT! YOU DO have to keep it in mind. It's YOUR Future Generations to consider.
@@chrishamilton-wearing3232 🤣
@@sgmarr Temper & suze are really important!
I like orange-yellow and green-red, but you're with these guys every day and would know best. As for the fruit cage, I don't think it would be too much work to put a strip of metal mesh around the bottom of it (maybe 1-2 feet high) to keep the rabbits from chewing it.
By the way, I've really loved how well you two have handled this nightmare year you had. Of course we only see what you show us, but I've gotten the impression that you handled it all with a smile, mutual encouragement, and the realization that troubles are a normal part of life. Thanks for setting us such a good example!
@@Beaguins The strip is a really good idea! I can't say we haven't had moments of it getting to us this year, but we do realise that the most important thing we have is each other! I (Hugh) actually appreciated that Fiona had to let someone take care of her for a change!
Fiona's back in action with her leg healed---bravo!
@@farkleberry471 Not fully right yet, but one heck of a lot better than it was!
Also in a windy area, polly tunnels are excellent we’ve had the same cover on ours for 10 years, they will need pressure washing or scrubbing once every year at the end of the growing season as algae develops, (not necessarily when their new thought). We just anchor them down with to metal stakes and it’s good to go 😊.
Orange blue for the older group, mainly because of temperament and his feathering is correct for the breed standard
Green red for the younger group, he seams nice and clean and friendly with a good temperament, and build. if they grow slowly it can indicate low hormones which could mean they are infertile or not very.
@@James2PlayzMC Thanks James - an excellent thought on hormones & fertility - thank you!
For your "range protecter" you can build your own using some lumber scraps to build a box and attach chicken wire over it. For the spring onions, plant a lot and then freeze dry the excess. Cockrel picks is Orange/Yellow & Green/Black
When you Freeze the spring onions do you chop them first?
@@EnglishCountryLife Yes
For your grass to grow through. You can get stair grates in metal, plastic, or rubber. They come in different sizes just google.
@@kathyarnold9163 Thank you
With the roosters, my vote is Orange yellow. He is a beauty!
Get a polly Tom's in the summer and spring onions all winter. I've got winter veg in mine cauli, lettuce, brocoli, Leeks and winter cabbage.good luck.
@@sumillyard9181 How are the covers in high winds?
@EnglishCountryLife I have never had a problem with any blowing off and I have 2 a 20 foot and a 30 foot . The plastic is buried down in the ground by about 2 foot. Make sure it's in a sunny spot in the garden and open both ends during the day. I did manage to burn a row of tomatoes this year so I invested in some shade cloth.Hope this helps .
Re onions walking onions or opreia as an almost all year round onion for greens and protetual bulb (small) you could dehydrate spring onions.
I must look into walking onions - thank you
Green Black is my cockerel choice
He is a lovely lad
These are problems that so many of us gardeners will benefit from the solutions your viewers suggest. I will be referring back to this video.
If you are assembling the greenhouse yourself, I would go with the polycarbonate option. I am going to copy your crop protector cage idea for a few fruit trees that regularly get squirrel and bird pressure. Great video!
@@AJsGreenThumbLLC Thank you! We really like the look of polycarbonate but don't know anyone who has one!
You could try cat scat matts, They are spiked so if you flip them over, spikes down, it keeps the hens from digging in my garden.
That's a good idea!
My vote would be Orange- Yellow with Green- Black as a second choice. 😊
@@dolphinsoul66 It will be one from each batch initially & we think you have chosen the best pair 👍
Rabbit, use 2 or 3 ft steal wire mesh if you cN aford it. I get 1/ 4 inch it keeps snakes out.
No snakes here!
I like to resprout the green onions and cut the tops off, cut them up, and freeze them. Mostly because I enjoy green onions as a garnish with many foods. They add such a nice flavor to noodles, soups, etc.
I hope that your leg has healed properly and you are back to 100%. As a suggestion, I find that lanolin lotion is very beneficial for bone health. I buy the lotion and rub it on the arch of my foot and cover with a cotton sock (because it is a bit sticky). Lanolin used to be found in many lotions that our ancestors used.
All the cockerels look nice so I don't have an opinion. Best to you for the holidays!
@@thisorthat7626 Thank you, we regrow them too - do they freeze okay?
Hey folks! I love your channel and am just now trying to catch up on your delightful videos. I just wanted to drop a recommendation before it falls out of my head. I use permeable pavers to grow grass in places that the birds heavily scratch. I use them just like you use the range protectors. I refill, spread seed, sprinkle topsoil and drop a paver on top. Give it a try!
@@americanajooma4457 Thanks - we've never seen a permeable paver! Do you have a link to them?
Hey y'all! I live in southeastern US and purchased some through our local home improvement stores. They are also called plastic pavers. I know amazon-US also sells and ships them. They are a landscaping supply commonly used for growing grass in between traditional paving stones or tiles. I use them just like you do your peotectors - to grow grass where my girls have been through. If you can't find them, maybe I can send y'all some for Christmas!
Green black for the next group. I love the roosters that are good with humans.
He is a sweet lad 😊
Berries are a high value (high cost to buy) crop; I would prioritize reinforcing the bottom of your fruit cage
@@karenw9996 That's a very valid point
Some of the plastic crates used for driving over grass would work as a range protector I reckon.
@@michaelcrawford2094 Thanks Michael - do you have a link to them?
Walk in chicken coops are the best if you have a shed then you could keep up to 25 chickens if it is 8 x 8 shed that is 25 small That big ones about 15 to 20
@@michaelhoskins2006 Not ideal for breeding - we run individual coops for each broody hen & her brood. We place great emphasis on biosecurity (so no wood with cracks etc.)
How about Builders netting unlike scaffolding?
@@michaelhoskins2006 I guess we would need to make a frame for it?
Orange yellow cockerel is my choice.
@@cjs_chicks Good choice 😁
Have a look at Steve's seaside allotment and kitchen garden, he grows salad onions all rear round and does loads of undercover growing. He's in quite a windy site.
Thanks, will check him out
Orange blue sounds perfect
@@KirstyHart-nq4wk He is a lovely lad!
Egyptian walking onions. Just growing them now and they're coming up. People have had success growing them over winter and using like scallions. Plus they're perennial and you can propagate.
Now that's something no-one else has mentioned - thank you!
Plastic grids for shed bases would probably work
@@CanenMerle That sounds interesting - do you have a link to something suitable?
Do you have hardware cloth in the UK? That will protect your grass seed...but it IS expensive. Poultry netting will help, but they'll still be able to peck through the openings.
@@karenw9996 We do have it but we call it weld mesh. The advantage the range protectors have is they have small feet built in but fine weld mesh would work
Greenhouse. I live in a windy area that occasionally gets 70mph win storms. So after some disasters we built a 2 by 4 frame greenhouse with polycarbonate roof and upper sides. The bottom sides are wood siding. It’s heavy but seems to be wind proof. It’s built on a 4 by 4 inch wood base.
The floor is plywood and hardware cloth so I plant in pots, not in the ground. Which is better for mice anyway.
I couldn’t keep an aluminum- framed greenhouse up to save my soul and a polytunnel would be a bad choice. So if you’re exposed to wind, I’d go with wood framed.
@@btd3375 Interesting. How thick is the polycarbonate that you use?
@ Four or five mm
Hello, maybe make frames with hardware cloth over them. Got the holes in the lawn
@@JJ-nb4ci It's not a bad idea. The plastic ones have lasted so well we hoped that something similar was out there!
Closest I've seen to the grass protection is a wooden frame with mesh stapled on top of it. Possibly some of the driveway mesh protectors? 40mm high makes them an ideal trip hazard in the dark...
@@PSB0nd "ideal trip hazard" 🤣
@@EnglishCountryLife ....For certain values of "ideal".
Orange blue and orange yellow
@@Alw337 Has to be one orange and one green....😉
Hi! Fiona - it’s marvellous to see you looking so fabulous, in your gorgeous boots ❤. With regards to your potential studs for 2025, I’d like to nominate Orange/Yellow and Green/Black. Much love from Sussex by the Sea
@@donnamarshall8349 Hi Donna! Orange/Yellow is a great choice! We are divided on the greens right now 😊
I dehydrate my spring onions where i only want 1cm chunks for my Chinese dishes. Love my dehydrator.
@@jartotable Do you dehydrate green and white parts & do both rehydrate okay?
Orange Yellow because he is big and mild in temperament. It is important that a cockerel is friendly.
@@maxinedolma8926 That makes complete sense & you are right, it is so important.
I live in Cumbria and we get a lot of high winds. We've had to build a greenhouse as none of the normal ones can cope. We can't have a Polly tunnel either so my husband is making one. Polly carbon roof over a big sturdy wooden frame with clear tarp around. That's the only way I can grow tomatoes. Love you videos ❤
@@CarolineMiller-g6e Would love to see pictures when he has finished Caroline. We really need inspiration!
@EnglishCountryLife I will do 👍
With regards to your growing tunnel I have seen good things about Polycrub they were designed by Islanders in the Shetlands to cope with their winds using polycarbonate . This is not to say buy one but that a design based on this might be workable, Huw Richards has one and there are other videos on the tube that talk about them Gaz Oakley for example . You are both very savvy when it comes to adapting what you have to benefit you, so sheets of poly and some creative thinking which you both are good at seems like a win, the chicken run to fruit cage is an example. 🙂 Glad to see you both well and that the lovely Fiona is recovering well. Best wishes from Yorkshire
Thanks do much Emma - we've hear good things about Polycrub too (but never seen one in the flesh)
Orange blue
@@brendasmith3545 Good pick!
Glad to see you looking good in spite of a year like you have had! I hear you. Will try to come up with a range protector solution. I could use one too.
@@olson.pamela Hi! How lovely to hear from you! How are you?
Okay, I will actually say orange and yellow and let me say I meant scaffolding netting dictation not too good I have a walk in chicken house and it is very easy to clean out. It is a metal shed and there’s loads of room for them. I can keep up to about 20.
@@michaelhoskins2006 Thank you. Orange yellow is a real contender!
Orange blue and green red. We have a green plastic interlocking lawn seed protector which worked well, I’ll get a link from my husband. And polycarbonate for tomatoes and don’t worry about fruit cage this year
Would really appreciate the grass seed protector link! We like the look of polycarbonate but don't know anyone locally who has used it. How are you feeling??
@ just realised it says product unavailable. But something similar might work, we watered and mowed over ours.
@JanCherryJovi Thanks Jan
About roosters. They have to be good with my hens and with us. Personality is inherited. Then i chose to standard and if he produces fertal eggs
@@kathyarnold9163 Absolutely, we won't accept any rough birds
I think you could get a walk in chicken house 1:22
@@michaelhoskins2006 We have wak in runs but like them free ranging 🙂
I'm getting my first buffed orpingtons today 🎉. We will be keeping them in an enclosed run. Are wood chips ok to use? I have wood shavings for the inside of the coop.
Hi Sandy, hardwood chips are fine, but some spruce & fir chips can harbour harmful organisms. It's a low risk tbh but get hardwood if you can!
Spring onions … I’ve never been able to freeze them for storage. They may be great dehydrated. I’d consider that. I have too much dried onion bits and onion powder to try it at the moment. But I’d be interested in knowing if they can freeze and be ok.
I plant spring onions but use them fresh dug from the garden. So I try to not over-plant them. A few did get away from me this year and became larger onions (White Lisbons). A bit strong as a medium onion but good in sauces, stews, or soups.
I will experiment -apparently they dehydrate well!
For which cockerel to use for the future, does a stockier build in the cockerel give rise to more meat in the descendants bred for meat? Does it confer an advantage in egg laying or anything like that?
@@janarmo2920 It certainly can mean a better meat yield...
We have the same problem. Have you ever considered an underground greenhouse, an Earth ship. Polytunnels can be expensive in a windy area.
That's a great idea, but we are at sea level so the water table is two foot down!
@EnglishCountryLife oh dear. However, there's a way round that through creating earth works. Basically embankments and glass over. Look at permaculture examples of this. It's fascinating. No need to dig down, just bank up.
@LifeonPigRow An interesting thought!
@EnglishCountryLife another possibility is a geodesic dome, more aero dynamic.
@LifeonPigRow Very cool lookin too...
Aluminium stockist do lots of styles of mesh
@@rocklover7437 That's a great idea - light & corrosion resistant. Do you have a link to something suitable?
@EnglishCountryLife put in Google "Aalco Aluminium mesh price list"
I feel the slightly Older (3rd) of your own Cockerel: and 3rd, larger of the other eggs, for the Choices.
I do like the 2nd smaller one from the Other eggs IS viable. But? Are you aiming for Smaller Chickens? I would only choose Smaller, IF you Aim to Reduce the sizes of Offspring.
If he ends up having issues with his size? Perhaps "missing" in his mating? Your eggs will have way less viability. Since this is your Business? I would not take a Chance at the Smaller. Only IF you have the Goal TO Reduce the Sizings!
@@sgmarr No less viability is definitely not a good thing for us!
Okay, I will actually say orange and yellow
He is a very good choice!
The range protector, to me at least, just looks like a normal steel grated door mat 😅
@@metalreita That's a great thought - the plastic ones are kind to chickens feet - I wonder if metal would be
Good point. They probably won’t during winter time, where metal can get freezing cold and their feet might get stuck to them.
I live in Denmark and I have heard of birds (in the very rare harsh winters) have gotten stuck to metal bridge railings and such. As I remember, England and Denmark have similar climate and weather.
But there is also different types of plastic or rubber grass protection mesh, for either when one have to park ones car on the lawn or protecting newly sown seeds from smaller birds, like blackbirds and such.
@metalreita That's a thought!
Orange - blue & Green - red for me. We've had female Buff Orpingtons and they are a lovely breed. What are the black and white chickens you have?
@@ivonthehorse Both good choices! The black & white are Exchequer Leghorns. Lovely birds with a lovely white egg.
@ Thank you. Might look into getting some of them in the spring
@ivonthehorse They are lovely - very active & curious
The cockerels are a hard choice, and perhaps a bit early to pick. Depends on how many hens you have of course, so you may well need two or three cockerels. If breed appearance is to your liking, and they are friendly, that puts them in the running for stud muffin. I have seen places with several cocks that get along, and manage their own harems (of roughly 10). So any of the dudes with a bit too much 'attitude' (to humans or the girls) get 'the pot'.
We will only take two through to fertility testing and then reduce to one. We don't breed more than 100 chicks a year so one cockerel is ample - more becomes a welfare issue for the hens
@@EnglishCountryLife How many hens do you have?
@davinasquirrel7672 We keep 8 breeding Orpingtons & 6 of other breeds just for eggs
@@EnglishCountryLife Ah, of course you only need the one rooster, I thought you had more hens
@davinasquirrel7672 No we breed each year so numbers peak at 80 or so but they are all offspring of the 8 broodies
Green black 8:56 8:56 8:56 8:56 8:56
It's probably between him & green red
Why not let the chickens do the weeding for you in the fruit cage. I let my chickens do the weeding.
Unfortunately the fruit cage is outside our electric fence area
Yes, I know you have a walk-in chicken run, but a walk-in chicken house is beneficial And you can walk in to there chicken coop not one of those stupid omelette things no offence
@@michaelhoskins2006 We have never had an Omlet?
Flow forge flooring for your grass seed grating dilemma. Check the local scrapyard.
@@thornwarbler We will have a look - thank you!
Spring onions … I’ve never been able to freeze them for storage. They may be great dehydrated. I’d consider that. I have too much dried onion bits and onion powder to try it at the moment. But I’d be interested in knowing if they can freeze and be ok.
I plant spring onions but use them fresh dug from the garden. So I try to not over-plant them. A few did get away from me this year and became larger onions (White Lisbons). A bit strong as a medium onion but good in sauces, stews, or soups.
@@btd3375 I grow Lisbons too. I find if I leave the roots they regrow several times