Quest Web Pages

Last site update

10/03/2010

Welcome to our livestock pages.  Here we include all animal life.  Limited in many ways to the space we have.  At the moment it includes our chickens kept for egg production but we hope to soon grow some meat birds and rabbits.

The chickens for eggs is based on our 6 hybrids we have brought with us from our previous house.  We have grown them from chicks which we purchased in March 2009.  They started laying in July and we have discovered a lot about how they perform in response to day light as winter approached.  We have collated considerable data on egg production versus costs as well as the effect of day light on egg production.  This will be of interest to any back yard chicken keeper.