On Jul 6, 11:59 am, Sally Thompson <s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:30:43 +0100, Judith in France wrote
> (in article
> <3cec7e08-360d-456f-9ab8-c69420ea0...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
>
>
> > 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?
>
> I hardly profess to be an expert, but everyone round here keeps their
hens
> till old age. They lay less during the winter, but they do still lay.
> Doesn't that happen in your area? Were you thinking of buying new every
> year?
>
> You might like to hang round the sci.agriculture.poultry newsgroup. I
have
> had a lot of good advice there, and despite the name there's not too
much
> science! They are very helpful to the beginner, and the people who post
> range from keepers of two bantams to a commercial flock. It's a
worldwide
> group, too, not just UK, so there may be other people with your
particular
> weather conditions.
>
> --
> Sally in Shrop****re, UK
> Posted through the usenet newsgroup uk.rec.gardening
Thanks for that Sally, I will lurk in there and see what I can pick
up. For a couple of months the weather here is really savage, we are
halfway up a mountain and the temperatures in Winter can even keep me
indoors.
Judith
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