Brown said:
I see you've got leeks in there with them too, so you're halfway to cock-a-leekie soup already. Maybe see if they'll eat a bit of sage and onion as well, and they'll be more or less table ready.
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Bit like Présalé lamb! and/or drink a bottle of red wine! for poule au pot!

Fuck that, we'd never get no eggs!!
I worked out that even without the cost of food it'll be 12 weeks before likely egg production amortizes the cost of em, and that is not counting at all the cost of the new henhouse which I refused to pay!
So you can see why with only 3 months over here last year we didn't get any.

They is lovely egg producers but scrawny eating. It'd take all 4 to give us a dins!!!
:):):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Bit like Présalé lamb! and/or drink a bottle of red wine! for poule au pot!

Fuck that, we'd never get no eggs!!
I worked out that even without the cost of food it'll be 12 weeks before likely egg production amortizes the cost of em, and that is not counting at all the cost of the new henhouse which I refused to pay!
So you can see why with only 3 months over here last year we didn't get any.

They is lovely egg producers but scrawny eating. It'd take all 4 to give us a dins!!!
:):):):)
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Yes I know, it's hard to justify in cost terms, because by the time you've bought them, made a house for them and fed them, it would be cheaper to get eggs from the supermarket. But then it's much more fun to get food from your own land, and it sounds like they're fairly tame so they'll be good little friends and become like family pets before too long. If they're inclined to go broody, it's great to see them hatching chicks as well. Watching little fluffy, cheeping characters running about the garden with their mother hen is a great pleasure, as well as watching how quickly they start growing feathers, especially on their wings. If you don't want a cockerel, I'm sure there'll be people around who will supply fertilized eggs. I'm looking forward to having hens again one day, when I can spend a bit more time on my land.
 
Brown said:
Yes I know, it's hard to justify in cost terms, because by the time you've bought them, made a house for them and fed them, it would be cheaper to get eggs from the supermarket. But then it's much more fun to get food from your own land, and it sounds like they're fairly tame so they'll be good little friends and become like family pets before too long. If they're inclined to go broody, it's great to see them hatching chicks as well. Watching little fluffy, cheeping characters running about the garden with their mother hen is a great pleasure, as well as watching how quickly they start growing feathers, especially on their wings. If you don't want a cockerel, I'm sure there'll be people around who will supply fertilized eggs. I'm looking forward to having hens again one day, when I can spend a bit more time on my land.
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We'd like to be able to breed from them, but as you say it is a bit more involved than we can manage in just 6 months.
Still, after we have finished the season they go to a good home! Guy in the village has loads of poultry he just adds them to his flock!:):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
We'd like to be able to breed from them, but as you say it is a bit more involved than we can manage in just 6 months.
Still, after we have finished the season they go to a good home! Guy in the village has loads of poultry he just adds them to his flock!:):):)
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Ah, so they're just with you on a work experience placement as it were. I got the impression that you were setting up shop there more permanently as you were getting livestock. I'm really looking forward to having animals again. Hens (I'm descended from northern parentage so we tend to say hens rather than chickens), ducks, geese, goats, heritage sheep breeds. More ambitiously, I've been wondering what it would be like to have one of those really furry highland cows, or miniature pigs.
 
Helped a pal move a car trailer out of a tight driveway last night. Managed it, but I knew the tratter had issues, a seized alternator. Anyway, I had hoped to get the job done before the thing over heated, but alas the coolant got so hot it blew a hose. Fortunately besides refitting the hose, no harm done…lucky.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
To go with all the other bits of kitchen equipment, like the pasta maker, that we have never used!!!
Mind you we got it before W became gluten intolerant.:(
At least we don't have a fondue set!:D
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Ooh! I've not had a fondue in ages! Would have it as an evening meal when on hols in Switzerland during winter!! Nothing quite like the smell of cheese and wine in a Swiss setting
 
Brown said:
Ah, so they're just with you on a work experience placement as it were. I got the impression that you were setting up shop there more permanently as you were getting livestock. I'm really looking forward to having animals again. Hens (I'm descended from northern parentage so we tend to say hens rather than chickens), ducks, geese, goats, heritage sheep breeds. More ambitiously, I've been wondering what it would be like to have one of those really furry highland cows, or miniature pigs.
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I'm from Yorkshire and we tend to say "hen" for an egg producing chicken, but I may have had a slip and said "chicken" as so many others do.
We have had hens since the year I retired 2015, but we only ever keep them for 6 months due to having to return in Sep or Oct. And in the last two years we haven't had any due to Covid and Brexit restrictions.
We too thought about having other animals, such as goats, for the milk, cheese and eventually paté, but they don't go well with fruit trees, any trees, fruit bushes and veg!! And they can escape from anywhere, the only real way to keep em in is to chain them to a stake, as far as we can make out.
So I admire your bravery, although it would be easier if you were living there full time. I think you probably have a lot more land than we do.
 
kermit_rr said:
Ooh! I've not had a fondue in ages! Would have it as an evening meal when on hols in Switzerland during winter!! Nothing quite like the smell of cheese and wine in a Swiss setting
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Like them, both the meat one and the cheese one.:):):)
There used to be a Fondue Restaurant in Bathampton, on the site of the old Keel Club.
Went there once. Cheese fondues were "off" so that was half the menu off! And you couldn't have one of each either if there were two of you. Which there were!
Don't think it lasted long!
We had them quite a bit, the ex and I, when we went to see relatives in France, always got a meat one. Always joked quietly that this was the only dinner party you go to where you cook your own food!
Terrible stories of fires breaking out due to people leaving the oil ones "on" accidentally, especially near an open window, for some reason. :eek::eek::eek:
 
kermit_rr said:
Ooh! I've not had a fondue in ages! Would have it as an evening meal when on hols in Switzerland during winter!! Nothing quite like the smell of cheese and wine in a Swiss setting
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You only need a pan, a primus and the ingredients, plus a few skewers!
You can pick proper ones up in charity shops all over the place, for peanuts. Except maybe not so much now as those who like "vintage" are now snapping them up!:rolleyes:
 
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