sara | January 21, 2011
Do you have working farm or run a farming business where you employ people on your farm? If so then it may interest you to know about Hazel Preece Consultancy, a consultancy business for Health & Safety and Employment matters specialising in the Farming and Agricultural sector.
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sara | January 20, 2011
Do you read Pig World magazine or have a farm or pig farm in the UK? If so then the Pig World Health & Safety/Employment Quiz could be just the competition for you!
Click on this link to read the quiz rules.
The aims of the competition are to raise awareness of health and safety and [...]
sara | January 18, 2011
The age of maturity of male birds will differ between species of birds. The maturity refers to the age at which the males reach sexual maturity and will start breeding with their female partners.
Quail = about 60 days old.
Hen = about 6-8 months old.
Partridges = male grey partridges mature from about 10-12 months old.
Pheasants [...]
sara | January 16, 2011
Just wanted to let you know that farmingfriends has now added the 12 egg poultry incubator to the farmingfriends shop.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE INCUBATOR AND READ OUR EXPERIENCES
There is a lower basin within the incubator to hold the water to control the humidity and the temperature control is fully automatic and contolled by a [...]
sara | January 13, 2011
The age of maturity of female birds will differ between species of birds. The maturity refers to the age at which the females reach sexual maturity and will start laying eggs and breeding with their male partners.
Quail = about 50 days old (I have observed that female Japanese quail will start to lay eggs from [...]
sara | January 12, 2011
I just wanted to let you know that the Farmhouse Breakfast week is between 23rd and 29th January 2011.
The theme for Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2011 urges people to Shake Up Their Wake Up by eating a healthy balanced breakfast every day.
Lots of breakfast events will be taking place between 23rd – 29th [...]
sara | January 11, 2011
Here is a rough guide to the male to female ratio for keeping different varieties of poultry together.
Quail = 1 male to every 3-4 females.
Hen = 1 males to every 6-10 females. (The Domestic Fowl Trust normally recommend 1 male to 6 females for breeding chickens.)
Partridges = 1 male to 1 female.
Pheasants = 1 male [...]
sara | January 10, 2011
With the recent Wintery weather in the UK and other countries suffering with snow, frosts and minus temperatures, there has been alot of debate about how to keep poultry drinkers and waterfowl ponds from freezing and keeping your poultry supplied with fresh water.
Looking for advice – we are in the north so we do get [...]
sara | January 9, 2011
I have been asked if guinea fowl hens lay eggs in a nest box or chicken coop. From my experience the answer is generally no.
I have been keeping and raising guinea fowl for the last 6-7 years and have found that they mainly lay their eggs from midday and early afternoon so they have usually [...]
sara | January 7, 2011
I have been asked if concrete flooring or 1/2″ chicken mesh will hurt ducks feet.
I live in an area with alot of raccoons….and due to lack of forage, have to move the duck pen around alot….Will it hurt them to walk on 1/2″chicken mesh and concrete??
Linda
I know that concrete can give them sore feet if [...]
