On Jul 6, 11:47 am, Sacha <sa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 6/7/08 10:30, in article
> 3cec7e08-360d-456f-9ab8-c69420ea0...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Judith
>
>
>
> in France" <judith.le...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Jul 6, 8:29 am, AriesVal <valerie.copel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:50:40 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France wrote:
> >>> Mary, the Egglu arrived yesterday at my daughter's in the UK, I will
> >>> pick it up in early September. I think I will leave "at the point
of
> >>> lay" chickens until Spring, what do you advise?
>
> >>> Judith
>
> >> I'm not Mary but I would say get them now - once the pullets settle
in and
> >> mature (about approx 8 weeks) you will be getting newly laid eggs by
end of
> >> August latest, and if you timer light their little house they will
lay all
> >> Winter too :)
> >> --
> >> "I've learned that making a "living"
> >> is not the same thing as "making a
life."http://www.copelands.plus.com/val/
>
> > Thanks Val but I am not picking up the Egglu from my daughter's house
> > until September. I am going to drive to England by myself as I am
> > flying to the USA from Heathrow so I will pick up the hen house on my
> > way back to France. I thought, obviously wrongly, that the chickens
> > were killed in the winter, this is what my neighbour does?
>
> > Judith
>
> Is that to avoid having to feed them all winter when, in your cold
weather,
> they go off lay? You might have to bring them into your barn and give
them
> something like a heat lamp in a fenced off area. It would be worth
asking
> the neighbours what they did. We kept ours until they were too old to
lay
> any more and then the nuns who ran a local old peoples' home took them
for
> soup!
>
> --
> Sacha
It's what the neighbours here do, nobody seems to keep hens in the
Winter.
Judith
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