On 7/7/08 14:00, in article
673a9995-fc06-49b7-9eb7-b4a9c143f994@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Judith
in France" <judith.lea99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> 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
My guess is that the extreme cold puts them offlay and this is why they're
killed off. But your best bet by far, is to ask a neighbour. And are you
prepared to bump them off?
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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