Hey.... Lets keep Chickens..!

ionahenor2

Oh Giger the clips have cheered me up no end. I had a look at some of your others too. It was so sad yesterday reading about all the lost and poorly hens.

Your breakfast clip cleared something up for me as well. OH is a devil for buying things he thnks might be useful for something and last year he bought( in the agricultural shop) the metal spring thing you have on your blue feeder. So I now know what is should do. Not sure where ours went in the end.:rotfl:

The pool from Tesco is great. We had a flyer this weekend with the ad for them and I have it on my desk. OH would love some ducks. What do you put in the house for them? Do they need closing up at night?

happymum2010

Syman sorry to hear about cabbage and flower

Ljonski – hope chucky is doing ok

HeatherintheHills hope your sick chicken is doing better
Tygermoth sorry to hear about your poor wee chicks. Hope your other chicks hatch ok.
Gigervamp your ducks look lovely. I love the way they walk, they put a smile on my face just watching them. The chicks are so adorable too.

Our chicks arrived on Saturday, just a little younger (7weeks) than what we were expecting. They are just lovely. I can’t believe how friendly they are already. They seem to watch us as much as we watch them. We all just love their little noises. They escaped on us on Sunday evening as we had to open the run up to try and catch them and put them in their coop. They are just so fast, DH was nearly in hysterics watching me trying to catch them round the garden. Thankfully this evening they figured out how to get in the coop themselves – so no more chicken chasing. The children have named them – the Rhode Island red – Chocolate; light sussex – Snowy; buff sussex – Feathers; and the barnvelder – Blue (that’s what happens when you let a 3year old name a hen – we were expecting him to name his hen lightning McQueen). We are hope that we only have hens, at what age do cockerals start to crow? Blue may seems to be the dominant bird and always first to do everything, but definitely not the biggest bird.

Here are some photos


Before the chickens arrived - final inspection - full approval given.

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Anyone have any tips to make the images a little smaller?

RacyRed

Wow! They are so cute!

There is an image resizer in the edit option on photobucket

Love the ducks and chick vid Giger

Tygermoth, how are the chicks?

I'm sorry to read of the losses and hope all poorly hens are on the mend now.

Gigervamp

ionahenor2 wrote: »

What do you put in the house for them? Do they need closing up at night?

They have woodchip bedding, the same as in the chicken coops. We do lock them up, just incase there are any predators about. They actually went in their house on their own last night as it was peeing down, so that was a relief!

Yesterday I found that she'd laid in amongst the weeds, but today she laid in the house before I let them out, so we have 2 duck eggs. I'm thinking they're destined to become a sponge cake as duck eggs are supposed to be the best for baking.

Happymum, lovely pics! Our araucanas were about the same age when we got them. It was the tail feathers rather than the crowing that warned me that they were nearly all boys (5 out of 6!) as they started getting longer. Also, Sweetpea was smaller than the boys. I *think* they were about 14-16 weeks old when they started crowing. It was more of a gurgle to start with though. :rotfl:

ljonski

Thanks very much for everybodys concern over Chucky.
She 's really improved and although now a lady of mature years, she's now just about keeping up with Stoogy in the race for the maggots..
There is a battery hen rehoming event on the 19th near me also, so im considering getting 2 more .
Thanks again
lj

ljonski

Let's up this makes it to a good home !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17990595

ionahenor2

ljonski wrote: »

Let's up this makes it to a good home !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17990595

Thats one way of getting rid of unwanted cockerals? or is it a she?
Lovely bird though.

HeatherintheHills

You would think someone would notice a chicken being smuggled into a football ground?

Beautiful bird. The goal keeper seemed to know how to handle a hen, impressive!

spirit

I don't blinking believe this, another ex battie looking not so good. her crop seems fine as does her lady-bits. Let them all out to FR and she is just stood there. Have brought her into the 'hospital cage' and given her yoghurt/olive oil mixture and mealworms.

Hope it's just an off day

Gigervamp

Another video. Petal and her chicks. You get to see both chicks in this one.