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Keeping chickens !

  • 10-05-2009 08:54PM
    #1
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know where I can get a hen house and chickens in the cork area.


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  • #2
    Munster Gal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭Munster Gal


    Here's a link to the hen houses
    http://www.tomosullivan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=26

    You can also order them from B&Q and Homebase.

    As for the hens have a look at
    http://www.midlandpoultry.com/

    You could also ask at the farmers markets someone there is bound to know something. I'd love to keep a few chickens myself but I'm only getting to grips with the veggies - maybe next year.


  • #3
    all_smilz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 747 ✭✭✭all_smilz


    oooh and there is a thing u get for the hens to live in, it looks like a giant hamster cage with compartments and runs etc, its called an eggloo! apparently its foxproof..... my bfs sister is having probs with her fox, so are her hens...


  • #4
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    all_smilz wrote: »
    oooh and there is a thing u get for the hens to live in, it looks like a giant hamster cage with compartments and runs etc, its called an eggloo! apparently its foxproof..... my bfs sister is having probs with her fox, so are her hens...

    I looked at the Eglu & at that timethey were not delivering to Ireland - I believe they are now but on top of the £388 sterling for the Eglu, there's a fair delivery charge.....


  • #5
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Munster Gal wrote: »
    Here's a link to the hen houses
    http://www.tomosullivan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=26

    You can also order them from B&Q and Homebase.

    As for the hens have a look at
    http://www.midlandpoultry.com/

    You could also ask at the farmers markets someone there is bound to know something. I'd love to keep a few chickens myself but I'm only getting to grips with the veggies - maybe next year.

    Thanks for that - hadn't realised they were that readily available :D. I had four 8ft x 8ft raised beds last year, but had to clear two for some work to the drains, so I'm thinking of puttng one of them back & replacing the fourth with a chicken run........


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