Re: Keeping Poultry and Rabbits On Scraps

Alang wrote:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:19:10 +0000, Farmer Giles <giles@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Maria wrote:
MM wrote:
Reprinted in facsimile for £6.99 a copy (£4.89 from my friend, Mrs
Amazon), this Penguin wartime book will teach you how to keep
livestock to supplement the diet for free.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keeping-Poultry-Rabbits-Scraps-Handbook/
dp/0141038624/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228653212&sr=8-1

It was my dad's dream, during the war, to start a poultry business and
in 1957 he did! This book may well have started him on the road to
day-old chicks, which he and I collected on our bikes from the local
railway station.

Even a pocket handkerchief of a garden will support a couple of laying
hens. You could probably do the "barn egg" variety in a playpen in the
back bedroom if you don't have a garden. And kids love chickens.

Doesn't take into account the swathes of complaints you get from interfering neighbours, who only remember how their mouths work when they have got something to complain about.
Oh dear, looks like someone's got the 'Neighbours from Hell'!

Nah. The days are long gone when people could keep chickens and rabbits in
the garden without some neighbour complaining :(

The worst ones are newcomers who start screaming about cockerels that
have been crowing since before the foundations of their crappy 3bd
semi were laid

My neighbours have chickens in their garden, and I've never complained.
.

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