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Do you keep chickens-why not send them on holiday

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OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 10 Aug 2014 08:42

Savvy entrepreneurs are hatching lucrative new businesses by providing handy holiday retreats...for CHICKENS :-D

With increasing numbers of people keeping poultry in their gardens, the need for holiday care for chickens has grown.

Like kennels and catteries, chicken retreats – as they are known – are springing up across Scotland and northern England.

http://www.sundaypost.com/that-s-life/real-life-stories/poultry-towers-holiday-retreats-for-chickens-1.516112

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 10 Aug 2014 10:50

are you yolking?

:-)

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 10 Aug 2014 11:03

My holidays are now sorted for the next few years - chicken sitting ??

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 10 Aug 2014 11:14

My son has 4 Buff Orpington chickens in his back garden, so that would cost him £28 per week to board them out.

He pays a young lad who is a friend of my grandson £10 to come and check their food and water and make sure they are locked up up at night.

I don't think he would pay £28.

Kath. x

Dermot

Dermot Report 10 Aug 2014 11:37

Farmers who rear geese know full well that they are one of the best 'guard-dogs' in any farm yard.

When disturbed, they create such a rowdy rumpus with squawking all round. No sneaky fox would dare approach the geese's domain looking for a mouthful of poultry supper.

For those of us with aching necks, you might like to know that rubbing on the affected area with goose fat is a well-known cure to relieve such pains. Albert of Steptoe & Son recommend this cure to his son Harold in one episode broadcast many years ago. You cannot argue with that now, can you?

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 10 Aug 2014 13:05

My gran kept chickens, when the last of them ended up as Sunday dinner - no one was hungry :-(

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"