Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

An mse chum from the green fingered forum gave me for little white snowballs of bantams earlier this year. Three met their end (its been a bad spring:() but one was left and we called him cotton eye joe. My chum has offered to hatch me some more so he can have some wives, at the moment he lives in a small house near our house with an ex batt with a very terrible limp. I have never kept fluffy chickens before, and my ignorance of them is clear to see because to day little cotton eye joe laid an egg, she has had a quick rebranding and is now cotton eye jojo.

PasturesNew

aww bless her cotton socks

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

aww bless her cotton socks

She is very cute too. More like a sort of alien chicken. She has fluffy hair style feathers, a black face and bright blue cheeks. She never stops talking and she jumps about the place, a bit like fluff from a dandelion clock.

Her eggs are about half way between quail and normal chicken egg size. Teeny tiny. Dh is going to want to eat half a dozen at a time.

mystic_trev

lostinrates wrote: »

Her eggs are about half way between quail and normal chicken egg size. Teeny tiny. Dh is going to want to eat half a dozen at a time.

I've got an Ostrich, you want to see the size of my Omelettes

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

I've got an Ostrich, you want to see the size of my Omelettes

I remember about 40 years ago my dad brought home an ostrich egg - it was a marvel! He then made an omelette from it. I tried to find him another ostrich egg before he died, but they're impossible to find.

(I'm 99% sure it was ostrich, not duck... but I kept forgetting which it was... never found one anyway)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember about 40 years ago my dad brought home an ostrich egg - it was a marvel! He then made an omelette from it. I tried to find him another ostrich egg before he died, but they're impossible to find.

(I'm 99% sure it was ostrich, not duck... but I kept forgetting which it was... never found one anyway)

One duck egg would have made an omlette for one not very hungry person. One ostrich egg would have made an omlette for ten.:p



I think they cost about £35 to forty quid these days. People blow them and keep the shell as decorations.....a dried twigs in vase equivalent.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

(I'm 99% sure it was ostrich, not duck... but I kept forgetting which it was... never found one anyway)

lostinrates wrote: »

One duck egg would have made an omlette for one not very hungry person. One ostrich egg would have made an omlette for ten.:p

There's a pic of an ostrich egg next to a chicken's egg and quail's egg here, which should give a good idead of scale:
http://www.hospitalityinfocentre.co.uk/Dairy/Eggs/Eggs.htm

My nephews live near a river and recently decided to wind up my brother by stealing a duck's egg and sticking it in the coop of their chicken. They knew that they shouldn't have done it, but apparently it was very hard to keep a straight face while telling them that mummy duck would have been beside herself looking for her egg and not to do it again.

Spirit_2

At the weekend I moved the chickens out of the tack room to live in an eglu. The chickens however do not understand they have been relocated keep standing by the tack room to go into roost. It has been a real pain putting them to bed.

Last night they all went willingly into their new home. I was so pleased with this break through.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

An mse chum from the green fingered forum gave me for little white snowballs of bantams earlier this year. Three met their end (its been a bad spring:() but one was left and we called him cotton eye joe. My chum has offered to hatch me some more so he can have some wives, at the moment he lives in a small house near our house with an ex batt with a very terrible limp. I have never kept fluffy chickens before, and my ignorance of them is clear to see because to day little cotton eye joe laid an egg, she has had a quick rebranding and is now cotton eye jojo.

I have a spare cockerel too. My chooks are too old for a lusty young chap, and had an elderly husband already.

I feel very sad for my lonely chap, he paces up and down outside the fence of the chicken run.

lostinrates

Thats the tough thing about chickens, the spare boys