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Beginners Workshop
Group Workshops are ended for this year, we will re-commence again in Spring 2012.

Hope you all have an EGGCITING time over Autunm and Winter until we all begin breeding again next Spring

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Beginners Guide
There are no hard and fast rules for hobby chicken keeping, no minimum or maximum, just remember a chickens nature and cater for it... generously!
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Wanted
We occasionally introduce new bloodlines in the form of fertile eggs and young birds from breeders with excellent quality birds, to expand the gene pool of our breeding stock.
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Useful Links: In our quest for further information on poultry breeding we have found the following websites useful.

Irish Poultry Society
The Poultry Club of GB
Poultry Guide

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Poultry Health
Poultry Forum
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Wanted

 

We constantly strive for quality in our birds. In order to maintain good healthy stock, it is essential that we use a diverse gene pool in our breeding.

Each year as we introduce new breeds or new varieties / colours of our own breeds we must bring in new stock.

When we use pullets of our current breeding pens we must bring in a new bloodline to keep our birds healthy.

Bringing in new bloodlines is only part of our breeding programme as we are constantly improving our stock in terms of appearance, egg laying capacity and meat production. Any introduced blood is tried and tested before we continue to breed from its progeny.

Our optimum bird will be healthy and disease resistant, comply with breed standards and produce good muscle and / or a satisfactory number of eggs, depending on whether it is bred for meat, for eggs or for both. Although we maintain breed standards, our priority is to breed utility birds rather than birds for show.

We prefer, where possible to barter/exchange stock.

Below is our wishlist and surplus birds we can offer as currency in the exchange...

Wanted/Wishlist Gender   Offered/Exchange Gender Contact
Geese (Pilgrim)

Pair

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Only healthy, good quality, purebred birds from unrelated stock are considered.