A giant leap . . .

Last week was quite an encouragement as our experiment with backyard captive poultry scaled new heights. Many of the people who had adopted this technique of growing fowl had reported that their hen had started laying eggs by the age of 22nd to the 24th weeks. 

We never had the patience to wait till they started laying eggs or our travels did not permit us to keep the chicken for long. However, a batch of four escaped the butcher's knife and we had been waiting. Our patience paid off as one laid an egg at the age of 21 weeks and 6 days. And then, they have been laying regularly...

Snaps . . . 

Considering into fact that these colored eggs cost about 8-9 INR per egg in the market, I can see it's potential as a source of extra income for poor families . . .  

Any takers ? ? ? 

Alarm Clocks

Over the last couple of weeks, we've been woken up quite a few days by . . .

Well . . . where did  they come from . . . Another snap of the quartet getting ready to sleep . . .

The kids have a great time feeding and watching them .. .. ..

I hope you remember the 'turkey poults' that a fly-by-night salesman' sold me in January. I had been suspicious all the time. However, the guy had done a good job shaving off their necks and coloring their heads. He would have got them by paying some broiler hatchery worker for the roosters. The male chicks are usually killed in broiler hatcheries. 

I'm not complaining though . . . In a couple of weeks, we'll have some good meat on the table . . . .