On 22/06/2013 18:20, RustyHinge wrote:
On 22/06/13 14:29, wrote:
We got 2 new Heritage Blue chooks, which are meant to have an 80% chance
of a green or blue egg, with the others being 'various pastels'. From
what I can tell, unless one of the older girls has shrunk her eggs, of
the 3 new girls (2 Blue and one stripey but i can't remember the breed)
we are getting 1 green, one mid brown and one light brown.

Stripey *eggs*?

How about crossing in a Russian breed or two to get them to lay Fabergé eggs

RustyHinge wrote:
We got 2 new Heritage Blue chooks, which are meant to have an 80% chance
of a green or blue egg, with the others being 'various pastels'. From
what I can tell, unless one of the older girls has shrunk her eggs, of
the 3 new girls (2 Blue and one stripey but i can't remember the breed)
we are getting 1 green, one mid brown and one light brown.

Stripey *eggs*?

Stripey chicken!
From the phtoo, I guess she's a barred rock:
http://www.cambridgepoultry.co.uk/chickens.html

David Hill wrote:
*shrug* Enough to make weeding it out require a second glance, at which
point I'm normally glancing at it in my hand going "oh b*****, I just
pulled out another strawberry", yeah.

Just keep doing that then plant the strawberries in a new bed and you
can hit the buttercups with no problem

The place where I have the problem is the back garden, where there are no
spare beds, and they just kind of meander through the flower bed. The main
problem atm is that I can't weed very effectively because NIck put chicken
wire up (grr) and now the chooks are in a much bigger run and don't need to
come out much, I can't remove it cos his grape vine has decided it likes it!

Anyhow, it's more the ground elder than the buttercup that cause the identity
issue. (for me)

On 22/06/13 22:28, wrote:

The place where I have the problem is the back garden, where there are no
spare beds, and they just kind of meander through the flower bed. The main
problem atm is that I can't weed very effectively because NIck put chicken
wire up (grr) and now the chooks are in a much bigger run and don't need to
come out much, I can't remove it cos his grape vine has decided it likes it!

Anyhow, it's more the ground elder than the buttercup that cause the identity
issue. (for me)

Get Nick to make two or three small movable runs, say a metre by a metre
and tall enough for a chicken to move about comfortably.

While you attend to the fiddly bits where chooks might nosh stuff you
want to keep, set the hens on the weeds - ground elder they will enjoy -
but I'm not so sure about the clutterbucks.

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Rusty Hinge