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

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
--
"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

On Jul 6, 8:33 am, AriesVal wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:29:54 +0100, AriesVal wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:50:40 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France wrote:

[5 quoted lines suppressed]

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

http://www.thepoultrygarden.com/phpb...1&t=2329&view=...
--
Mankind is governed more by feelings
than by reasonhttp://www.copelands.plus.com/val/

Gee thanks Val, I have forwarded this to Edward's computer so he can
read up too.

Judith

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
--
"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

"Judith in France" wrote in message
...
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

Judith, will you mail me please?

Mary

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:30:43 +0100, Judith in France wrote
(in article
):

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
--
"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 Shropshire, UK
Posted through the usenet newsgroup uk.rec.gardening

On Jul 6, 11:47 am, Sacha wrote:
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
--
"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

On Jul 6, 11:59 am, Sally Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:30:43 +0100, Judith in France wrote
(in article
):



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
--
"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 Shropshire, 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

On Jul 6, 11:55 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in ...

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

Judith, will you mail me please?

Mary

Email on way Mary

Judith

On 7/7/08 14:00, in article
, "Judith
in France" wrote:
snip
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

On Jul 7, 2:20 pm, Sacha wrote:
On 7/7/08 14:00, in article
, "Judithin France" wrote:

snip



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?

--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

Not only am I not prepared to bump them off, neither will I eat them.
I cook chicken for the family but I can't bear to eat the flesh, don't
ask me why, I just don't know. I don't eat chicken but I love chicken
soup!!

Judith

Judith in France wrote:
[]
Not only am I not prepared to bump them off, neither will I eat them.
I cook chicken for the family but I can't bear to eat the flesh, don't
ask me why, I just don't know. I don't eat chicken but I love chicken
soup!!


Hi Judith,

It's no longer legal to kill them yourself, here in France. You need to
take them
to an abattoir where they charge for the service, but I believe pluck
them as well.

The problem is that while in the past pretty much any abattoir would do
it for you,
now many are refusing small jobs (trying to support the industrial food
chain no doubt)
so the trick is finding someplace local enough to make it worth while.

Or doing it on the sly, of course.

cheers from rainy Normandie,

-E

On Jul 7, 4:27 pm, Emery Davis wrote:
Judith in France wrote:

[]

Not only am I not prepared to bump them off, neither will I eat them.
I cook chicken for the family but I can't bear to eat the flesh, don't
ask me why, I just don't know. I don't eat chicken but I love chicken
soup!!

Hi Judith,

It's no longer legal to kill them yourself, here in France. You need to
take them
to an abattoir where they charge for the service, but I believe pluck
them as well.

The problem is that while in the past pretty much any abattoir would do
it for you,
now many are refusing small jobs (trying to support the industrial food
chain no doubt)
so the trick is finding someplace local enough to make it worth while.

Or doing it on the sly, of course.

cheers from rainy Normandie,

-E.

Hi Emery, lovely to hear from you. My neighbour Marie-Louise, who is
like my mother, a darling spirited elderly lady has told me how she
kills them and I will let her do it, I am such a wimp. Round here, it
may be against the rules, but they kill their own animals for their
own consumption, although, saying that, Lauren has sent his first cow
to the abattoir to be killed, he said something to do with the cow is
recorded in the books???? Obviously the pig wasn't as I had to turn
the music up really loud so that I couldn't hear it squealing and that
was only because they were trying to get it out of the sty!!!!

Judith