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Poultry. Sheep. Pigs. Bees. Gardening. Family History Bellecross Hens on Facebook and Twitter
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September 23, 2017
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2018-01-13 19:48
RE: My Five Homesteading Goals for 2018
Love your ideas/goals. It's surprising how similar most goals are for many homesteaders. Water collection is one thing we need to improve on, we do have a couple of collection points but really should
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2018-01-13 19:40
RE: My 5 Homesteading goals for 2018
Thank you - my resolve is to try and post daily. So hopefully will post my successes and failures, also to try and find the time to read through other peoples posts on a regular basis.
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2018-01-13 14:42
RE: Avian Influenza in the UK
Thank you and thank you for your vote. There does seem to be a more positive attitude towards AI this year and the strain is less virulent than last so hopefully all will be well.
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bellecrosshens
blog
2018-01-11 13:49
RE: Life gets in the way
Thank you.It's good to be back, feels like normality has resumed
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bellecrosshens
blog
2018-01-11 13:48
RE: Life gets in the way
Thank you.x
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-21 12:40
RE: Back into Lay - Bellecross Belles olive eggers.
Yes with auto sexing on hatching you can identify the males from the females.Much depends on the strain/line of the breed. As Bellecross Belles are a Welsummer cross identifying the chicks is the same
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-11 22:11
RE: Weekly Chicken Gazette Issue 16🐓
They are looking really well. Mine are at various stages of moult. They range from oven ready or moth eaten to pristine and fabulous :-)
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-11 18:11
RE: Building a Small Farm - Future Plans
How exciting - a few years ago I would have loved to have such an amazing project. Sadly and realistically I'm not sure I could physically manage it now. So I shall live my dreams through your posts.The
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-11 18:04
RE: Poultry catch up - Winter routine and care:
Like wise, a couple of the netted pens last year weren't waterproof and we spent much time, effort and money on continuously replacing the straw.This year we are better prepared with waterproof covering
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-11 17:59
RE: Poultry catch up - Winter routine and care:
I usually free range my birds all year round rotating the pens so always having at least one pen and house resting. With the lockdown last year more of the pens were left fallow and I'm sure benefited
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bellecrosshens
photography
2017-11-10 12:52
RE: Seven Days, Seven Pictures of My Life in Black & White. Day 1
Super photo
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bellecrosshens
gardening
2017-11-09 16:09
RE: A Gardening Project - The Alpine Butler's Sinks
They look great and when you move to your farm, if you tire of them, they make great drinkers/feeders for pigs
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bellecrosshens
colorchallenge
2017-11-09 15:27
RE: Color challenge - Thursday - Green
Thank you. I think the sunlight catching them helps, also plenty of leave mould :-)
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-02 13:37
RE: I'm back - sort of. Poultry and Gardening catch up
Thank you. The olive eggers are super, such great characters. They are from a Welsummer cockerel Cream Legbar hen mating. Yes I'm afraid we are fully expecting to have to go into lockdown again this winter.The
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-02 11:07
RE: I'm back - sort of. Poultry and Gardening catch up
Thank you - yes hopefully all's sorted. Now I need to catch up on everyone's posts.Must make the most of this glorious weather first though. Now the clocks have gone back the evenings are longer so plenty
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-11-02 09:54
RE: Bruce - A Whole New Chicken Breeding Programme for 2018
Looking forward to the updates, it will be interesting to see the off spring of a Bruce / Silkie mating :-) Good luck with next years breeding plans.
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bellecrosshens
nature
2017-11-02 09:48
RE: Autumn in details.
Beautiful - it captures the feeling of autumn perfectly
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-10-15 09:08
RE: Wildlife or predator - Foxes
Yes I think a flock of geese would group together and see a fox off but as a brooding pair mine were vulnerable.
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-10-15 09:05
RE: Guinea Fowl - from hatching to 8 weeks and independence in video clips
Very hardy and independent.Easier to rear with a hen rather than a broody as like all game can be slightly uptight and flighty but I find a hen calms them. She will also teach them to go to roost in a
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bellecrosshens
homesteading
2017-10-14 20:50
RE: Wildlife or predator - Foxes
No I'm afraid not.I lost a sitting goose to a fox and also her mate trying to protect her.Now everyone is behind electric fencing.
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