Comments on: Grave dangers of chicken keeping

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:47:24 +0000

Fantastic photographs! Yah for the chicken blogging! I’ve just visited ‘Irish Sally Garden’ that you have as a blog link on your side-bar and was so impressed with her informative site and amazing work – she’s selling a booklet on hen-keeping – particularly aimed at smaller gardens – perhaps I should give it a go! – The girls would love having fresh eggs for breakfast and I can envisage a lot of entertainment – laughter and tears! 🙂

By: Domestic Executive

Domestic Executive — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:11:53 +0000

Claudious, an update on the egg differences. You’ll see I used them for my egg mayonnaise sandwiches for afternoon tea (see post for 12 August) and they were yellow. So yellow, it was sublime!
JT

By: Claudious

Claudious — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:09:18 +0000

I really like the idea of those fresh eggs, that one picture you took of cooking with them does an amazing job illustrating the health difference. I don’t know what to do with an angry rooster, with dogs I’ve heard you can use a squirt bottle with water, I wonder how a rooster would react to that.

By: Ruta M.

Ruta M. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:58:22 +0000

Re chickens’ combs, a hen’s comb is a good indicator of its health and egg laying capablities. The bigger and redder the better. A pale comb is a sign of a sick or out of condition bird. Our hens are kept till they die of old age and you can easily tell which ones are are on the way out. With our ex- battery hens their combs were almost white but they soon perked up, once I had taught them that they were not to spend the nights sleeping up in the apple trees in the hen run. I’ve never had trouble with any roosters but a suggestion is to give it a good squirt with a water pistol. Despite having no brains hens can learn and I have one who regularily slips under the gate of the hen run, has a good rootle around in the garden and then waits for me to call her, when she follows me back to the run and pops through the gate to eat the handful of corn I’ve thrown down. Actually I suspect the other hens send her out on purpose just to get an extra feed.