Private Allotments to Rent

Private Allotments to rent in Ockham, a beautiful site with water and toilet facilities available.

625 sq/ft plots (25ft x 25ft) on a first come first serve basis, starting at just £15 pcm.

Call 07780 990899 for availability and more information.

Goodbye "Woking" Hello "Ockham"

Needless to say, moving in excess of 500 animals including "Emus" is no mean feat.

So, we closed the doors for a week to enable us to dismantle and erect pens, fencing and housing. In the final hour we transported the livestock. Yes, we completed our move in exactly one week, however, it was CHAOS !!

We have now settled in nicely at Ockham making improvements and additions on a daily basis. There are a few "before", "during" and "after" pictures of the move process down the left side of this post. Click the images to view them full size.

My special thanks to Kelvin and Neil at "Fencing Services" who literally had 12 hours notice to source the materials and build my beautiful 100ft square pen in less than a week with lots of "client alterations and additions" I might add. These guys are amazingly patient. They specialise in all types of equestrian, poultry and general stock fencing. They are based in Surrey and you can contact them on 01483 834343 or 07801 617439.

Special thanks also to my good friend Stuart who's poultry crates and expertise with birds was invaluable on the day we transported the livestock.

Finally, a huge thank you to Piers, from Runtime Software Development, my website guy, for re-designing our website enabling us to keep you updated with Surrey Poultry's progression. Piers has almost become a resident in Ockham being with us on a daily basis to rebuild and re-design our website. A link to Runtime Software can be found at the very bottom of this website.

Emu's

I decided early on this year (2010) that I would like to hatch some Emu's, so I set about purchasing 4 eggs.

They arrived through the post and after resting at room temperature for 24hrs, they were set in 2 Brinsea Octagon 20 fully automatic incubators. Due to their size I could only fit two in each incubator laying sideways down. They also incubate at 36.5°c so couldn't go in with my chicken or duck eggs.

50 days later on Sunday 28th March 2010 (on my day off - Typical!) I take a call from a member of staff to say "The Emu's are hatching!!". Later that afternoon, we had two beautiful baby Emu's with a third to follow on Monday 29th. The fourth egg wasn't fertile.

The images here show an egg placed beside a standard hen egg for a size comparison, a newly hatched Emu, and one of the Emu at approximately 3 months old.