Hey.... Lets keep Chickens..!

kittywight

awwww

congrats on your chickens ive always wanted a chicken (although i really want ducks) , unfortunatly i dont have a garden any more

maybe one day

xx

zippychick

How exciting for you !!!!!!

Ive merged this with our keeping chickens thread

Zip

Beetlemama

Thanks I can never find anything, so many boards and so many places on the boards to look....

poohbear59

Beetlemama wrote: »

We are so excited! After months of feeding our new two chickens with nothing in the box but chicken poop, we have our first egg! go girls! - not actually sure who laid it but hooray for chickens that work!
:j

We bought them as babies assured that they will start laying soon but since June we've had nothing. We were beginning to think that they were going to be pets rather than involved family members that contributed to the household.

...Of course now they'll probably stop laying as it's winter. Our old hens laid all the time no matter what, but I've read that they sometimes stop in the cold and start again as the nights get shorter. Have to wait and see, but for now....Go chickens go!

Brilliant news!!


After 8 months with only the occasional egg we found 5 yesterday
. I am wondering if the new chooks are laying and if the sunshine is helping the others I know it is making ne feel better.

RacyRed

poohbear59 wrote: »

Brilliant news!!


After 8 months with only the occasional egg we found 5 yesterday
. I am wondering if the new chooks are laying and if the sunshine is helping the others I know it is making ne feel better.

Wow! Congratulations :T:T

Beetlemama

We have another today and we know who laid it. It was Phantom the Bantam, my sons little black hen (great name isn't it? 8 year olds creativity). She was still sitting on it when I went to let them out this morning.

Well done Phantom!!

Athome1

I don't know if this has been discussed before but I couldn't find it:o
I've got 6 ex batts (since May this year) and they are brilliant, good layers, happy, settled etc etc but as we are approaching the firework time of year I'm wondering how they will cope with the barrage and what I neeed to do (if anything) to help them? They have a large coop, which is locked once they have 'gone to bed' and I have a light which I could leave on for them but I don't know whether they would be better in the dark? Please advise if you can. Thank you!

Beetlemama

Our previous chickens slept like they were dead, nothing woke them up, you could pick them up and put them down asleep. We went out at fireworks time and they were all settled with no squawking so we let them be.

Athome1

Many thanks Beetlemama (sorry, can't press the THANKS key just keep getting an error message:mad:). I hope ours will be as sanguine:D

MrsRogers

Hey all

Wanted to pop in and say hello and introduce my 2 girls to everyone. :hello:

Nigella & Henrietta :j They are mine and my husbands first hens.. We got them from my dad who is a farmer so I have been brought up with hens but never thought id have them in suburbia !!

My husband & the neighbors are fascinated by them.

I think they have been trained well .. we had them on Saturday and we have had 3 eggs already!!

Just hope they lay through the winter ... keeping my fingers crossed