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Question: Chickens & Ducks
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Posted on 03 May 2013 10:08

Keeping chickens and ducks can be a very rewarding and entertaining experience plus keep you going with fresh food for your breakfast. It only needs a small chicken coop in the corner of the garden for a few bantams or hens. Ducks can be even funnier to watch and a couple of male Call Ducks will happily play around the garden cleaning up slugs and other grubs. The males only make a quiet qwack, but the females especially at mating time could have all your neighbours up in arms with their "laughing calls". My ducks have an old bath dropped in to the ground with paving slabs around and are very happy with that. The advantage of keeping chickens and ducks is that a lot of friends are quite happy to look after them while you are away as the free gifts of collecting eggs is a great reward. The hobby can become very addictive as you then want an incubator to rear some fertile eggs maybe from ebay and hatch and rear chicks. Always buy your initial stock of hens from a poultry keeper as they can give you good free advice, and if you don't want an early morning call, don't buy a cockerel !.

David at Fernlea www.perthshirecl.co.uk
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Posted on 07 May 2013
Hello David we keep chickens as well but unfortunately we have a job getting anyone other than our son to look after them as they are located next to our bee hives. I was raised on a farm and we had 10,000 plus chickens. Average egg production was 5 eggs per week which we slightly exceed with our own hybrids; namely, Black Rocks, Calder Browns and Blue Haze. Hybrids are generally better layers and more resistant to disease but do not look as attarctive as some of the more exotic species.
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The Black Rocks are my best hens and I get them as day old chicks from the breeder in Renfrewshire, and my others are a real mix but my Light & Buff Sussex are also good layers and are characters. Never heard of Calder Browns are they a hybrid like Lohmann Browns ?. Your other hobby of bees must be great, I just love comb honey.
David Posted by David Stoakes on 07 May 2013
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Hello David. Sory to be so long in replying as I forgot about your comment. According to the dealer Calder Brown is another name for "Brown Ranger" Regards
Alan Posted by alan Myland on 17 May 2013
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always wanted to keep chickens but alas i dont have the room wish i did Posted by Robert Brown on 10 Sep 2013
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We have 12 chucks - a motley crew but they look great and lay great too:) When we go away we can leave them for up to three days with water and food in feeders. They have a covered run for when we're not around which we now keep on concrete blocks and this means that nothing can dog underneath and get to them. When they were on grass it was a different matter - foxes and badgers regularly dug underneath the wire. The paving slabs have put a stop to that and they're easy to keep clean too. Posted by Claire Fielder on 03 Apr 2014
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