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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Cook" <richardscook@...>
To: <smallholding@...>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [SmallHolding] Re: Chicken houses
> Just curious... how practical is it to keep a goat in a back garden?
> We're getting four long-awaited chickens for Christmas, and we've built
> a movable house and run so that we can minimise the damage to the
> grass. But if we got a goat as well in the future, would that be too
> much for the grass to bear??
Okay, next year I'm getting chickens which I am very excited about. However, I don't have a chicken coop as of yet, I do have two fairly newish rabbit hutches,...
Hi Karen Yes we use some rabbit housing for hens to nest and roost in. Obviously they need to be out during the day and need to be able to stand up straight,...
Hi Thank you, I was thinking of bantams at first, but small eggs, and relatively shorter lives so I have read. Looking forward to our own eggs. Don't get me...
-Hi Karen, well Hubby is right, especially when they get in the veg garden. But then, think of the milk and meat and skins. And the fun when you take them for...
Just curious... how practical is it to keep a goat in a back garden? We're getting four long-awaited chickens for Christmas, and we've built a movable house...
It all depends Richard! First of all how big is the Garden? Are you on an estate where you would be allowed to keep a Goat? I for instance have an actual back...
Thanks for the advice John - much as I suspected really: goats = hell !! I forgot to include my garden measurements: it's about 20m x 18m. Not that that...
I'm very keen on the micro-holding concept. I have 3 hens and was considering some of the low space, free yield farming types. For instance is keeping bees...
What have been your experiences with the 3 hens Steve? I presume you keep them in your garden?? I'm really keen to get into bee-keeping myself, but I have my...
I built the hen house but it's not perfect. I'm going to build a smaller 'night' house with egg access at the front and a door at each side. It will be on legs...
Not a lot of space Steve is it? You should get by with 3-4 hens comfortably though. I used to live on a council estate and one of the houses had a garden about...
... This alone will not prevent rats I'm afraid. I have a roll of the smallest aperture chicken wire sunk into the ground and above for a couple of foot and...
Steve keeping bees is viable. Ireland's only commercial bee keeper started by keeping his bee hives in the attic/loft of his council estate house and letting...
Fantastic, my youngest child and I would love goats, we go to a local farm and pick clover for them - I wonder, does milking make your hands soft as I've heard...
join your local bee club - they are usually friendly and informative, and will answer all your questions. You can also keep bees on someone else's land....
I used to keep a small Apiary here Jackie of 10 hives. But the decline in crops meant that the bees were moving further afield for pollination. It has now got...
... site beehives and flat roofs are thought to be a good place as the flight path is above peoples heads and the roofs have little other producing capacity....
My friend used to keep bees at her house, but having a relatively small garden and being part of a terrace of houses the neighbours were not keen, she luckily...
Surely a pygmy will produce some milk? I mean if you only need a pint a day? I don't have anything to back this up, it just seems to make sense. The main...
Hello, I've got the Omlet Cube chicken house, it is extremely easy to clean, it is foxproof if you purchase the run/run extensions (you don't have to), it...
Hi Helena Thank you for this info. I got an eglu, just picked up today, my husband's first experience with a trailer and he got trapped down a bumpy dead end ...
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