Went to our first BBKA (British BeeKeeper Association) Meeting the other evening. It was a really interesting talk about Swarming, and I was pleased that we were already familiar with a lot of it (thanks to our course at the BCA), but there was also new stuff which were not (quite correctly) part of our course.
I grabbed my old "chicken notes" notebook to take with me andd, of course, I made plenty of notes.
While we were waiting for the evening to get underway I was flicking through the notebook. It went right back to when the chickens were just a glint in my eye. I have lists and lists, of breeds I might be considering, suppliers, other stuff that needed to be bought and where sold it for the best price.
It went on to show how I narrowed down my breed (and supplier) choices, and the dilemmas I faced about how to get the birds I wanted when no one supplier supplied them all.
I could see the whole path from starting, to ending up with a Transylvanian Naked neck and a Buff Sussex from Wernlas, and a Bluebelle from Sharon Gould at Pinvin. I had maps and directions and timings about how I would get from one to the other. My B&B booking at Ludlow at the "Hen and Chickens" guest house (selected entirely on the basis of its name!)
Ah, nostalgia.
I turned to the back pages of the book, and it raised the biggest smile of all....
I grabbed my old "chicken notes" notebook to take with me andd, of course, I made plenty of notes.
While we were waiting for the evening to get underway I was flicking through the notebook. It went right back to when the chickens were just a glint in my eye. I have lists and lists, of breeds I might be considering, suppliers, other stuff that needed to be bought and where sold it for the best price.
It went on to show how I narrowed down my breed (and supplier) choices, and the dilemmas I faced about how to get the birds I wanted when no one supplier supplied them all.
I could see the whole path from starting, to ending up with a Transylvanian Naked neck and a Buff Sussex from Wernlas, and a Bluebelle from Sharon Gould at Pinvin. I had maps and directions and timings about how I would get from one to the other. My B&B booking at Ludlow at the "Hen and Chickens" guest house (selected entirely on the basis of its name!)
Ah, nostalgia.
I turned to the back pages of the book, and it raised the biggest smile of all....
