Poultry page%% https://chilcotts.farm/chilcotts-farm/poultry/ No longer a working farm. Our home in North Devon Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:43:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://chilcotts.farm/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-Chilcotts-farm-site-icon-32x32.png Poultry page%% https://chilcotts.farm/chilcotts-farm/poultry/ 32 32 Emu Hatch Day – First Chick! https://chilcotts.farm/emu-hatch-day-first-chick/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:09:57 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6731 Late afternoon today, our first little emu chick popped out. It is very alert and trying to stand. Tomorrow I will move it into a pen under a heat lamp. Hopefully over the next few days it will be joined by other sibblings.

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]]> Quail Hatch Day https://chilcotts.farm/quail-hatch-day/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:49:28 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6720 Came down in the morning to find our first quail had hatched. The little ball of fluff was chirping and wondering around lonely in the incubator. By mid morning Fluffy had been joined by two others. Eight eggs remain in the incubator so fingers crossed and may the hatching continue.

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]]> Hatching Quail Eggs! https://chilcotts.farm/hatching-quail-eggs/ Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:58:57 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6708 Hatching Quail Eggs

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]]> Beautiful Mornings! https://chilcotts.farm/beautiful-mornings/ https://chilcotts.farm/beautiful-mornings/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:20:51 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6088 The mornings over the past few days have been crisp, bright and warm! Letting the animals out is even more of a joy when the weather is so gorgeous. You forget what is going on in the world. After all, they don’t have a clue and every new day is another adventure.

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/beautiful-mornings/feed/ 0 Mr Fox is out and about https://chilcotts.farm/mr-fox-is-out-and-about/ https://chilcotts.farm/mr-fox-is-out-and-about/#respond Sat, 07 Dec 2019 10:57:54 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=4208 We have unfortunately lost a duck and a chicken over the last couple of days. Taken by Mr Fox! We haven’t ever had any issues with Foxes, but this year we have lost 3 ducks, 2 chickens and a goose!

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/mr-fox-is-out-and-about/feed/ 0 Fox Attack & a Goose Killed https://chilcotts.farm/fox-attack-a-goose-killed/ https://chilcotts.farm/fox-attack-a-goose-killed/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:51:11 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3233 Yesterday afternoon one of our geese was killed by a local fox in Bickington. This year we have now lost to foxes two ducks, a chicken and now a goose. We have not had loses like this for the last 7 years. Fortunately, each time it has only been a single bird taken, and appears […]

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/fox-attack-a-goose-killed/feed/ 0 The Geese Have Finished Laying https://chilcotts.farm/the-geese-have-finished-laying/ https://chilcotts.farm/the-geese-have-finished-laying/#respond Tue, 14 May 2019 09:40:52 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3069 The geese have finished laying for this year, so we no longer have goose eggs for sale.  We have a broody goose sitting on the last eggs laid, so maybe some spring goslings?  Hopefully more goose eggs available from late February next year. We still have plenty of duck eggs for sale.  Please knock if […]

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