hakunamatata Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Not sure if I am in the right place to ask the question but we are about to buy our first chickens. What hens are recommended for the Med apart from Marans? We only want eggs, no early morning crowing and no butchering!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mary Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Not sure how to spell it, but we have cou nou, which are brown with bare necks and also White Sussex. We have 5 hens and get 4 eggs on average daily, sometimes 5 and occasionaly only 3. Ours are 1.5 years old now and started laying when they were about 5\6 months. We are in the Gironde\Lot border, so weather gets hot here with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 We've got a mish mash of all sorts now. We bought some fluffly feet types at the Tarbes market a while ago and with a bit of interbreeding along the way we have lots of mongrels. Have a look at what the neighbours have and ask where they got theirs. The ones with no feathers on the neck are usually for eating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louis Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 We've got brown chickens with no feathers on their necks, I thought there was something wrong with them at first. We get lovely large eggs sometimes with double yolks.We got ours at the local market - we won't be eating them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Framboise Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 They're Cou Nou de Forez - alias Loire Baldy Chickens! I have some and they are delightful creatures, very friendly and amusing. No ours won't be eaten either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pads Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Just out of interest whats the french for point of lay ?Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 a "pondeuse" is a good layer and "pondre" is to lay être sur le point de la ponte ??where "ponte" is the state of laying (feminine i guess as there aren't many male chickens that lay eggs!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakunamatata Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 Very useful info thank you especially for the translation of point of lay!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pads Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hakunamatata If you ever go to Carcassonne market on a saturday there is a lady there who sells her eggs , some times in the spring/summer I have seen her sell a few birds, I have never asked if they are eaters or layers but if you ask her she might have some for sale Her eggs are very tasty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 We've tried different places. There used to be several markets nearby which sold them, but most of them have stopped, for some reason. Now we buy them from a neighbouring farm. They are the brown bare-necks, which others have mentioned. And she often adds a few others, such as a bonny little bantam cockerel, and his tiny black mate. And some silvery speckled ones.We do eat the brown ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Everyone around here is helpful when off-loading chicks. When Mr Fox comes visiting we all lose one or two, but there are always neighbours willing to part with chicks. As an aside, we had a clutch of 11 chicks hatch, 9 were cocks (how unlucky was that!). Bedlam rained for a while until we did the deed and fed the freezer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 [quote user="Pads"]Just out of interest whats the french for point of lay ? Ta[/quote] Prêt à pondre Sorry for the garble - I'm on Safari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Oooo where? Kenya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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