smithy Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Thanks for info on carnival would bring wife and grandchildren down but on the 7th November we have got a meal booked up for about 10 of us we are hoping that PDC father Brian can make it as he always come out with a few good tales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractortim Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Looking forward to this event http://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/south-west-farmers-get-chance-to-try-out-farm-kit.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Hi Alex bit late with this picture only now worked out how to upload with new forum this is my chicken shed not as good as yours I have 50 cobs in here for Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 A great setup Smithy, thanks for posting, they will grow well with that space, how many days do you keep them for and to what weight? We are changing over from a Ross bird to Cobbs next time, coming in on the 9th of nov less than 24hrs old for 42 days @ 2.5kg, due out on 21st Dec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 Its been a busy week at Frogmary with the boss away in Spain and main tractor driver on holiday too we started off the week trying to wrap up contract drilling and our own catch crop drilling, i spent all morning whilst waiting for seed unblocking coulters on the vaderstad after trying to drill oat seed that straw still in it, got going at 5pm for Anthony Jeans, 70 acres by 8pm then 50 acres for Steve Godfrey and back in the yard at 11.30pm just in time for chickens going at midnight 6 loads, back up at 5am to see the catchers finish and get ready for the next 6 loads to go at midday, the next house was cleared wednesday at 1pm but the last load was cancelled, very fustrating to put the house back together again for only one lorry load, these were finally cleared at 3am friday morning, have now cleared litter from all 3 houses and 2 are now washed, last one to wash monday, disenfect tuesday and spread shavings wednesday before getting houses ready again thurs/fri! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 A great setup Smithy, thanks for posting, they will grow well with that space, how many days do you keep them for and to what weight? We are changing over from a Ross bird to Cobbs next time, coming in on the 9th of nov less than 24hrs old for 42 days @ 2.5kg, due out on 21st Dec This year I got them on the 15 August as day old the picture was taken when they was about 6 weeks old ,which means this year we will have them about 125 days and will weigh between 5kg/7kg (11lb/14lb) we have had some weigh 19/20lb by growing them slowly the legs build up to take the heavy weight ,the place I buy them from kill the hens at 6 weeks weighing appox 3kg and take the cockerels on to 8 weeks and weigh up to 4 kg but are fed a high cost food I feed mine on my own wheat/barley mix after the first six weeks then slowly add a growers pellet which will put on 1lb per week . myself and a good mate hand pluck them ,we used to do 200 birds and supply 3 local butchers a few years back but that's a lot of work in a short time so only do the 50 now for friends and family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted November 8, 2015 Author Share Posted November 8, 2015 Had a busy weekend setting up 3 sheds at Frogmary site ready for chick placement tomorrow morning, 110,000 coming in, on friday our lorry and tanker arrived from Leeds for liquid digestate haulage from the plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 If one of them chicken shed was ever not used for poultry you could have a full size diorama properly take a few years to build it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0025 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I think that's what I would like to build on my diorama after my new grain shed and robotic milking parlour, I talked to Paul from brushwood and says he won't build one as there isn't the quantity of chickens available to fill one. Nice pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted November 15, 2015 Author Share Posted November 15, 2015 Fleet photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Nice fleet Alex, is the triffitt trailer yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 Yes it is Pat, i wasn't sure of it to start with but its very good, good running gear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 Some pictures of contract drilling this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 The new lorry has now been sign written and had its first outing friday contract hauling digestate from an AD plant in Exeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 6 hours ago, Oakley Farms said: Some pictures of contract drilling this year It seems a long while ago that we saw the dust blowing about behind the drill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Hi Alex not heard from you for a while hope you are ok ,was talking about chickens last time ,as you can see from pictures I have done mine had them appox 125 days from day olds at the end we had weights from 10lb up to the biggest at 18lb most of them went over 14lb (1kg=2.2lb) very happy with them this year .Merry Christmas Alex smithy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted December 25, 2015 Author Share Posted December 25, 2015 Cracking looking birds there Smithy! Nice size too! Not been on here for a while as just had a turn around of 6 days which is dam tight with Christmas in the way, birds out last Friday, bedding back in Wednesday. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas Smithy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 Thanks Alex will clean my shed out in next few day do mine by hand back a small trailer in as far as I can then get the muck fork out and burn off some of the Christmas calories no rush as don't need my shed till next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 It's been a busy start to 2016 with outloading spuds from cold store, running repairs and upgrades in the poultry houses, earth moving for the AD plant, chicken litter haulage and now the spreader is hitched on ready for a trip down to Blandford on Monday for 120t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B O R Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 nice pics again Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Spring Farm update digestate handling solutions have arrived ready for the off, Joskin tanker with 12m trailing shoe, 60cu m nurse tank. Digester is now up and running, it's diet is increasing on a daily basis. Managed to drill some oats for Wakleys and a new avenue of trees have been planted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Great update, interesting news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted July 30, 2016 Author Share Posted July 30, 2016 Check out the new video of Frogmary Green Farm cutting and clamping wholecrop for AD https://youtu.be/84VjpABA8Qk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkom3 Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Very nice bit of Drone footage there Alex, Regards Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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