Comments on: A beginners guide to keeping chickens (part 2) http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2 Bringing Healthy and Sustainable Food Together Sun, 09 Oct 2016 11:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: stewart http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-831255 Sun, 09 Oct 2016 11:59:16 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-831255 What a lovely blog and wealth of information for the many newbies – that love the thought of having chickens – but don’t know where to start. You simply uncomplicated the process.
nice writing.
Stewart

]]> By: georgina harmon http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-519136 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:42:11 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-519136 thankyou i have found your beginners guide really helpful. i am now going to look at the omlet guide.
thanks again

]]> By: David http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-242061 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 05:11:41 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-242061 Hi I’m looking at getting some chickens I don’t have a grass area but there is a lot of plants my fiancé and me Arnt green fingered! But I was looking at taking some plants out and putting chickens there I’ve seen you used plastic to keep it fairly clean we’re would I get this from?

]]> By: elaine http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-208882 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:02:01 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-208882 hi have had my two rescue chicks for 3 week and am completly hooked i do the same as you as we work full time and let them roam when were home whats a bit of chicken poo among friends :) your post is very helpfull dont fell as guilty leaving them through the day now x

]]> By: June http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-133163 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 06:34:15 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-133163 Hi, my chickens are free range all of the time but we are in the process of building and growing a garden…which as I am sure you are aware the chooks take great pleasure in tearing up and munching everything in site. Because of this we have now put them up the side of the house, still free range with coop and run (for lock up over night), with dirt/sand box and hay placed up the entire area they have, its a great little spot but I cannot help to feel a pang of heartache that they do not have the entire run of the backgarden and also as much interaction with me. Will they understand the difference in environmental enrichment and the lack of interaction?

]]> By: Tracy http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-111721 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 18:59:03 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-111721 Is that bark you have down for them?

]]> By: sophie http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-106212 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:32:51 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-106212 In reply to Doot.

Hi Doot, take a look at some of the links at the end of the post re. your questions. The Omlet forum is an especially good place to ask questions and you’ll get lots of opinions rather than just one. Enjoy your new girls!

]]> By: Doot http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-106032 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:20:50 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-106032 I helped to care for hens at a community garden for five years and really missed them when I gave it up. I have now taken the plunge and bought a hen house! It’s still in bits but, being made of lovely wood, smells divine! It’s in my front room….. Next weekend, I’m getting two p.o.l chooks and we are all very excited. I live in a terraced house, with a small back garden consisting of a slabbed patio and the rest gravel. Should I take some of the gravel up so they can scratch in the soil? Also (sorry, you’d think I would know all this!) should I clip their wings? Hopefully, they will have been vaccinated. I’m a newbie to this site, but I’m already hooked! My granddaughter, Lauren aged 9 and into mythology, has decided the girls will be called Vesta and Venus!

]]> By: Zena http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-104731 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:26:15 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-104731 Thank you so much for some staight-foward answers to many of my own concerns. We have bought a coop and are just deciding how many ex-battery chicken to home for the space we have. I think 3 will be good from reading your comments. I like the idea of letting them out morn and eve and free roaming only when we are around – however I’d be interested to know how this work for you in the winter month when it is so dark mornings and evenings – a great site for this newbe, many thanks!

]]> By: www.ibewlocal69.com http://www.mostlyeating.com/a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-chickens-part-2/comment-page-1#comment-104692 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:45:13 +0000 http://mostlyeating.versantus.co.uk/?p=118#comment-104692 Hi, just wanted to tell you, I loved this blog post. It was helpful. Keep on posting!

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