Farm Project
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| lovely snowdrops in the woodland near the henhouse | ||||
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| We brought them back to the school farm and introduced them to their new friends | This is the Cuckoo Maran. They lay a lovely dark brown egg. | The Black Rock hen is mainly black with copper speckles. | ||
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| We decided to go to Bonagee Mart |
I like the view from here! |
The girls help them settle in! | ||
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Our New Hens On Friday 11th February, we went to Bonagee Mart to buy some new hens. Our other hens are three years old now so they were not laying eggs every day. We gave six hens to a lady who offered our ‘senior citizen’ hens a comfortable retirement home. The hens now live in Markethill, Co. Armagh and they have settled in well.... so well that they are now laying six eggs a day! Mr Oliver, P. G. R. P. and E. P along with E. and L.’s mum and P.’s Granny travelled out to Bonagee at 4pm to buy the hens. The supplier was Tighes from Co. Roscommon. We bought 5 red hens, 4 Cuckoo Marans and 2 Black Rocks. We now have 20 hens in the hen house. We travelled out to the school and introduced our ‘new hens’ to the original residents. They were not impressed and immediately set about showing the new hens who the real boss was! The ‘pecking order’ soon became evident. The following week we clipped their wings to prevent them from flying into the woodland. You can recognise the new hens because their ‘red combs’ are not fully formed. They also look smaller than the other hens. We hope that they will begin to lay eggs before Easter. |
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| We learned how to trim the hens' feathers
in order to prevent them flying away for an overnight special in the hotel ! |
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| Meet our current busy farm managers and new hens! | ||||
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| M.G. and L.McC. | all togged out! | |||
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| L.McC. | L.R. | A.G. | ||
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