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advice needed please
5 December 2012, 16:58,
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RE: advice needed please
(4 December 2012, 20:31)Prepaday Wrote: I would love some chooks for breeding but I know the neighbours would complain about the cockerel skriking at stupid oclock Sad If I were to be allowed a Cockerel, I would have to dispose of all male chooks first that were born from the fertile eggs Sad I don't know of anyway to stop a Cockerel coockadooadoing... I can't give you any advice on breeds but just food for thought....Hope you have good neighbours?

There is no need to have a cockerel, infact the hens will propably do better without, I've kept hens for a number of years and I've had more problems with hens when I've had a cockerel in with them than without.
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5 December 2012, 19:02,
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RE: advice needed please
I agree about the cockerel - you only need one if you want to breed and they are far more likely to upset the neighbours than a few hens.

I keep 6 hens in the back garden and the neighbours never complain - I keep them sweet with odd few eggs. A couple of people in the village have cockerels and you can hear them from a long long way off.

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5 December 2012, 19:07,
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RE: advice needed please
Try this place mate, I'll be getting my hens from here. It's a bit far away from you but you get the idea as to what's about.

http://www.chookschickenfarm.co.uk/

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5 December 2012, 21:00,
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RE: advice needed please
(5 December 2012, 19:07)SealDriver Wrote: Try this place mate, I'll be getting my hens from here. It's a bit far away from you but you get the idea as to what's about.

http://www.chookschickenfarm.co.uk/

Thanks all will certainly think about everything ;o) cheers Steve will check it out love having chooks about :o)
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12 December 2012, 22:35,
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RE: advice needed please
I would say go with what you can get rather than trying to get something you might not be able to. Must be a local poultry or fur and feather auction in your area - normally these are much cheaper than breeders.

As has been mentioned, Rhode Island Reds, Marrans, Light Sussex and hybrids are what people go for with good reason - at my local auction I would be looking to pay £15 give or take for a couple of hens and a cockerel they can breed with, perhaps the same for three hens, but they normally come hens and a cock - the auction keep the cockerels if people do not want them and eat them. If I could not keep a cockerel, I would take it home and eat it myself.

http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/1...-sale.html

http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/classifieds/...escription

I would get a mix of different stuff. One or two of them and a couple of those and so on.

And while you might not be up for keeping a cockerel, I live in a town on the edge of Tyneside - would definatly be classed as urban, although 2 miles away is the country side - and I keep 10 cockerels in the garden. Bought young ones at the auction, were sold as hens, paid so little worth raising them myself to eat. I do not let them out early on, at least until 0830, will be later when it is still dark at that time. By the time I have let them out, they have done all the cock a doodle dooing they want. Decent housing, covered in felt, absorbs most of the noise. You have to be within 30 foot to even notice it. You could keep them outside a double glazed window and never know. Or maybe its because I have double glazing and they are not next to it I do not hear them, but I have asked all of the neighbours, none of them have heard cock a doodle doos.
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