I’ve been told that a personal blog is the way to go if I want to communicate and share my enthusiasm for garden poultry keeping with lots of people. I have to say I feel a lot more at home talking to chickens and they always agree with me. I am sitting here at the moment waiting for a customer and looking out of my office window upon our picnic area. It is 6.40pm and the early autumn sun is going down in the sky and casting long shadows over the closely mown grass. There is an overgrown rose hedge on my right waiting for its autum tidy -up, but there are too many large rose hips on it yet and the birds will want to feed on those to help them prepare for winter. Remember those hips are full of vitamin C and a great boost to our wild friends diet. Further away from the window is a Rowan tree, bearing silver berries and then a contorted hazel bush. When the hazel nuts are ready for harvesting it will be a race between me and the squirrels to see who can get them first. It always seems that I lose. It’s now 7.20 and my customers have just left, my poetic spell has broken and my stomach thinks my throat has been cut. I’m off to get my supper, but before I go and now that I’ve got the hang of this blog thing, I promise to be back soon and to keep you informed of the highs and lows of life at Poultry Park.
Hi Chris,
I am looking forward to following your blog!!
We have had chickens in our Urban garden for 2 years now, in total we have had 10, but only 5 survive.
I have many friends who have shown an interest in chickens over the past couple of years, and I always recommend Poultry Paradise! (aka Poultry Park!!)
Once again we are thinking about adding another couple of girls, so I have just visited your website. We lost 2 chickens in July while we were away on holiday, and we have been struggling to survive with less eggs! My husband gave me the go ahead this morning to look into getting 2 new ones.
I think it will be in the next month, or have to wait until May/June next year, I’d much prefer to get them this side of the Winter, as the eggs will be even less in a couple of months time!
Sue
p.s. can chickens eat rosehips? Are they good for them? I was considering picking some for wine making, but if they are good for the chickens, I might throw them a handful or two!
Hi Sue
Good to hear from you again.
There is no problem (in my experience) with your birds eating rose hips, remember they are full of vitamin C.
Wild birds go mad for them and I think it helps to build them up for the winter.
Look forward to seeing you again soon. If you want some winter eggs we have a good selection of hybrids here at the moment
Anyone trying to get hold of me during the next few days may find it more difficult than usual. Adam will be here, holding the fort, at Poultry Park and we well be open as usual from 11.00am until 5.00pm 7 days a week, but I will be over at Malvern Showground organising the Poultry Park “Good Life Garden”. I could not do this without the able assistance of Tony Bryan of 3 Shires garden centre (formerly Hazlefields) who is providing the vegetable plants, all organically grown and looking good enough to eat. I also managed to talk him into lending us the decking area, garden furniture and hard landscaping features. Martin Clark, (www.clarkstrees.co.uk) has helped with the bee information and details of pollen bearing shrubs and flowers. Aiden and Sue Dowle have given their invaluable assistance in general design, tidying up lots of flowers and giving me the names to thing that I have lost the labels off.
Hi Chris, That was a nice surprise to see your doing a blog now, even more reason to come back and look at your site more often. My 2 New Hampshire Reds that we got from you in the Sping are doing very well , and the 3 CCR from Janet’s are growing fast and integrating with the main flock now, so my total of 11 chooks are giving me plenty of entertainment and cleaning up to do. Geoff and I hope you are keeping well and that you will soon be getting a bit more rest from such a busy summer.
Best wishes. x