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Sacha[_3_] · 06-07-2008, 12:47 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 6/7/08 10:30, in article
, "Judith
in France" wrote:

On Jul 6, 8:29 am, AriesVal 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
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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!

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Sacha