Skeffling Lavender Farms 2012 Black pendesencas Breeding group 9 hens one rooster
Skeffling Lavender Farm's 2012 Black Penedesencas Breeding group 9 hens one rooster
_I think these enormous Black Penedesencas are magnificent.  The rooster is being gentlemanly and telling the girls where any treats are!   They have already laid big pink eggs in their new digs, so no worries there!

Here's more of my breeders below!
On Sunday night we rearranged about 70 heavy chickens into their breeding pens, what fun!  So the 4-5 weeks clearance for pure bred eggs begins. 

That'll give me time to tidy up the hatching corner in the basement that is full of homemade wine that needs to be bottled.  It's mead from our own honey, strawberry (bought pick your own strawbs, we only got a few of our own and put them in our jam) and our own rhubarb. 

The chickens are all getting on very well since the move.  We never do a major move without being home next day or two to supervise.

I have been checking on them a few times a day, especially the bachelor rooster pen and the pens with young pullets and old hens mixing.  That is the Chanteclers and the Wheaten Ameraucana coops.  A bit of pecking order establishment, but nothing serious.

Skeffling Lavender Farms 2012 Partridge Chanteclers Breeding group 13 hens, 2 roosters
Skeffling Lavender Farms 2012 Partridge Chanteclers Breeding group 13 hens, 2 roosters
Lavender Ameraucana Rooster on Skeffling Lavender Farm
The girls wouldn't come out, so here the Lavender Ameraucana rooster alone in the run.
 
Welcome to our new Website!  Happy New Year!  It is melting and muddy slush here today after yet another thaw.  I don't think we have had snow on the ground for more than 4 days at a time so far this winter.  That's very unusual for Grey County and the Bruce Peninsula, but it will make for a shorter winter. 

The little pullets our chick-crazed broodies hatched this summer are just starting to lay even tinier pullet eggs.  I think the Euskal oiloas are laying as well as the Chanteclers despite being 4 weeks younger and it being just past winter solstice.  The eggs look too dark for the chanties.  We even got a blue egg from Lawnmower girl, our miraculously surviving Lavender Ameraucana that got away with a shaved shoulder and wing in the summer.  A daily dab of Watkins Petro-carbo fixed her up after a week.  

I am going to be hacthing and selling our pure bred chicken breeds eggs in Canada this year so check out our fertilized chicken hatching eggs page!  Euskal Oiloak Basque hens, Partridge Chanteclers,  Lavender Ameraucanas, Black Penedesencas, Lavender Orpingtons, Wheaten Ameraucanas and a few Black Sumatras.

I took the pic below a few days ago from my computer window!  It's my view when I am writing and I love it.  I will be writing more in the new year.  I am hoping to be able to take some time off doing dentistry at least this month.  I'll be writing more chicken articles, and working on my Zazzle stores as I love the designing.  The thing is, with both of those fun creative things is I have no idea where the time goes!  

So welcome, and enjoy and comment all you like!  I'd love to hear your suggestions and questions and will answer them in my later blog posts.

Tags: skeffling lavender farm, zazzle gifts, happy near year, euskal oiloak, lavender ameraucanas, wheaten ameraucanas, lavender orpingtons, partridge chantcelers, black sumatras, fertile chickens eggs

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View to the West through our new Patio door!!