Spring is sprung and things are on the up :)

Well, what a week of glorious weather we have had, the birds are all certainly enjoying having some sun on their backs....and so am I :)

We have recently been offered space on a farm to keep our breeding groups, which is great news, as we can now expand our groups and have more breeds to offer. The last week has been very busy setting up the new pens, moving birds to the farm and getting them settled in. It is very much a work in progress and will be fine tuning for months to come.
Both Charmain and I would like to say a very special thank you to Hugh and Sally for allowing us to keep our breeding groups on their farm and for all their help and support with setting things up.

More and more of the ducks are starting to come into lay now, I have just put some Saxony and Runner eggs in the incubator to test fertility, we are now only waiting for the Muscovy, Cayuga and Pekins to start laying.

I think it's safe to say it is going to be a very busy spring and summer and I for one am looking forward to getting stuck in and making Petersfield Poultry better than ever.

Charmains latest book, Vampire: Child of Destiny is doing extremely well with sales going better than expected in both eBook and Paperback. The first book in the series is still achieving 4000-5000 downloads per month too

www.amazon.co.uk/Vampire-Destiny-Charmain-Marie-Mitchell-ebook/dp/B00HZL4VDE/

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What horrendous weather

  

I just want to start by sending my thoughts to those of you that have suffered in this terrible weather. We have been quite lucky here, we have a river out the front of the house which has been extremely high and almost come over the flood defenses a few times, but touch wood, it's not come over yet and hopefully it won't. The biggest problem we seem to have at the moment is the rear garden where our ornamental wildfowl live. With the ground so saturated at the moment, any rain we have is just sitting on the top and today it was ankle deep throughout 3/4's of the garden. I guess it's keeping the ducks happy tough lol

We had our first ducklings of the year hatch yesterday, 2 Khaki Campbells, from the only ducks we have that are laying at the moment. We also have another 12 in the incubator with 3 weeks to go and have just topped up the incubators with a mixture of Pekin Bantams, Lemon Millefluer Sablepoot, Black D'Anvers, Gold Laced Polish and a few others. We now have both incubators running, but the MS Broedmachine has 31 eggs that are due to hatch on the 20th (All from our Sablepoots, D'anvers, D'uccles and Serama), so once they go down to the hatching try during the week, we will be able to move the ones from the Brinsea Octagon into the Broedmachine, which will all be due on the 27th.

 

We have already had a few smaller hatches this year, the last hatch was a mix of Pekins, Polish and D'uccles with a few others thrown in, that are now coming up to 2 weeks,

We have added to our breeding groups, so now have Gold Laced Polish, Black D'anvers, Chamois Polish, Lavender Splash Pekin Bantams And a mixed group of Silkies to go with our Sablepoots and D'uccles. We sadly lost our Serama boy, and I have a young one we're growing to put with our girls. We're also growing on a pair of Silver Millefluer Sablepoots, which will be laying in about a month or so.

At the moment, the only birds we have laying are our Gold Laced Polish, Lemon Millefluer Sablepoot, D'uccles, D'anvers, Japanese Quail and Khaki Campbell ducks.

I'm hoping to announce some exciting news (for us anyway) next week, so as they say..Watch this space :)

Keep safe!