Hey.... Lets keep Chickens..!

oldtractor

:jWELCOME SAL1960 :beer:
So you too have chickenitis? No known cure I'm afraid. You will just need to keep posting on here with the like minded/afflicted for moral support, fun and good times.
We now have 9 ladies to look after. Love them all, each and every one.

ionahenor2

Hi Sal welcome to chicken keeping .Heather has a naughty car that takes you to buy more hens:rotfl:

Have you managed to fix your fence Thriftkitten?

muckybutt

Weve got chickens as well :beer:

We have black rock pure breds, blue haze and a few more rhode island x's, the rhode islands being rescues from a chicken farm - good layers as you can imagine, the pure breds though not egg machines.

They are all going through the moult at the moment so all look very deshevelled, on of them has gone free range in the garden, the rest all live together in the fenced off area of the orchard. We love em all, surpising as they all have very different personas..... unlike the stupid khaki campbell and rowan ducks we have.....theyre just thick !

Thriftkitten

ionahenor2 wrote: »

Hi Sal welcome to chicken keeping .Heather has a naughty car that takes you to buy more hens:rotfl:

Have you managed to fix your fence Thriftkitten?

Yes my brother and I worked tirelessly all yesterday, no time to do a roast, but we decided to half the size of the run so they only have half of the allotment to play in, however, its much easier to maintain and we were able to move the original wire posts so not so much of that green netting to have to go out and patch up every hour as this wind continues, we were hit particularly hard in cornwall over the weekend and I was very nervous that the plastic shed would shift with the wind..... Midnight on saturday I was biting my nails debating whether I should go and collect them and put them in the very large dog cage in the outhouse next to my kitchen... Well they are my babies, so Im
'm allowed to be neurotic hahahah!!! however I decided not to after the wind calmed after midnight. they are fine and currently having a blow out of their bum feathers as they peck at the marshy ground this morning.

oldtractor

Hope everyone and their hens are safe and well.
Got another pullet egg yesterday.
its getting muddy too but at least we are not under water.

ionahenor2

Thought I'd share this with everyone. I read some time ago that you should give chickens chopped /grated carrot to guard against worms. My new girls haven't been wormed yet but since I got this new Julienne cutter I've been giving them a couple of carrots a day.

I was emptying the pooh tray this morning and noticed some dead white worms!!!:eek: in the pooh. I checked the other tray and sure enough there were one or two in there as well. So could carrot be a natural wormer? I've never seen them when I've used Flubenvet.

spirit

ionahenor2 wrote: »

Hi Sal welcome to chicken keeping .Heather has a naughty car that takes you to buy more hens:rotfl:

Have you managed to fix your fence Thriftkitten?

Me too, I've had to change my car just to fool it!

oldtractor

another egg today!

HeatherintheHills

Welcome Sal1060 and muckybutt (:rotfl:) You are in good company here

I "borrowed" the naughty car from Spirit Spirit, have you sold it? Did you warn the new owners about the little affliction it suffers?

Gigervamp ((((((((hugs)))))))) Have you tried carrot?

The bad weather cost me a lovely little Serama bantam girl, she got very wet and even though I brought her inside into the warm and dry I lost her. Poor little love.

Don't slip in those wet runs

ionahenor2

Sorry to hear you lost Serama.

My new girls are not impressed with frozen water or frozen leaves.

Sorry Spirit I'd forgotten it was your car.:o Heather seems to borrow it alot:rotfl: