Keeping hens and ducks chat.

edwink

Hi Queen of Cheap


How did last night go now you have put the strips with the spikes there???


I do hope that they have done the trick. You must be so worried. I am worried for them too!! Poor little chookies!!!!


Please let us know what is happening if you get a minute!!!


All the best


Edwink x

Dizzy_Ditzy

Thank you folks

We still have chooks it looks like the plastic spikes and the man wee might be working *crosses everything* I think I need to learn to chill out a bit more about it. We have gone back to locking them in their house at night and going back at first light to let them out - being there before 6am and locking them up at 9pm ish is knackering me right out!

Horseygirl123

It's difficult to not worry about them. I had a few sleepless nights when I first had the chickens especially as I lived several miles away and couldn't just pop out and check on them.

My hubby is an electronics engineer and made an automatic pop hole opener so I could have a lie-in occasionally but I never used it - much to his annoyance - partly because the chooks didn't seem to sleep in the same coop some nights and I was concerned it wouldn't work sometimes. Sorry hubby:)

It could be worth thinking about though. Keep up with the man wee:)

Horseygirl123

I am pleased to report every one of the hens laid an egg today. That's 13 eggs:T

Up to now I have given them away as I didn't have much of a surplus from the six original girls. Now I have more hens I was thinking of selling some. Probably ask for £1 for six which would hopefully cover the cost of layers pellets. Does this seem about right?

ampersand

Exactly what our Vicar's girls' eggs go for :-)

Money goes to our Tanzanian diocesan linked churches.
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Well, came back to say I have just finished reading this thread - loved, subscribed.
These days will keep mes poules vicariously via all of you, if that's permitted.
And even if it isn't, still will...:-)

Thinking now of Mrs Nasty, Princess Lucky et al, poules passim.

Dizzy_Ditzy

Horseygirl123 wrote: »

I am pleased to report every one of the hens laid an egg today. That's 13 eggs:T

Up to now I have given them away as I didn't have much of a surplus from the six original girls. Now I have more hens I was thinking of selling some. Probably ask for £1 for six which would hopefully cover the cost of layers pellets. Does this seem about right?

at all girls laying

We sell ours at £1 for six. It covers the cost of the feed at £7.80 a 20kg bag, corn at the same price and a few little extras if needed.

Some people are very squeamish at the idea of buying your eggs :eek: one response was "I know where they came from" :eek::rotfl:. Yes, the same place that shop bought ones come from *bangs head on wall several times*

ali-t

We got 7 eggs yesterday for the first time. The last 2 days there nas been a tiny egg which is very cute. Ours go for £1 per half dozen. I buy egg boxes too rather than recycling shop ones which adds to the cost but defi itely worth it.

fourcandles

Ooooh, a chicken thread!! :T

Haven't read through it all yet as I've just come across it before leaving for work, but I'll have a good read later. I'll just give you an introduction to my 5 lovely ladies.

I have 5 different hybrids at the moment. I find 5 or 6 is a good number - at the height of my hen addiction I had 9 and was dreading lifting the nest box lid in the mornings in the summer! Another 9 ****** eggs! Family and friends were appreciative though! Despite having 3 nest boxes they all try and lay in the same one, so it looked like they were sitting on a pile of Ferrero Rocher!

My girls are Alice (speckeldy), Felicity (lavender araucana - always broody, but on the rare occasion when she isn't gives us lovely olive coloured eggs), Jessie (warren), Lily (black rock) and Mabel (Bluebell and boss hen). In the past I have had hens named Kylie, Madonna, Stephanie, Jenny, Janice, Molly.....

Right, off to work!

Horseygirl123

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

at all girls laying

We sell ours at £1 for six. It covers the cost of the feed at £7.80 a 20kg bag, corn at the same price and a few little extras if needed.

Some people are very squeamish at the idea of buying your eggs :eek: one response was "I know where they came from" :eek::rotfl:. Yes, the same place that shop bought ones come from *bangs head on wall several times*

I've also had a couple of "thanks, but no thanks":) Same reason as yours. Two or three eggs tend to have little blood spots, or meat spots. I used to think:eek: but I've toughened up a bit and now just remove them before eating. Maybe that's put some folk off.

Horseygirl123

Hi fourcandles, were you a fan of The Two Ronnies:)

I know what you mean about all the hens using the same nest box. I've got two large chicken coops with eight nest boxes between them and I find the majority of eggs in the same box.

I started off with the Isa Browns and after three years thought we'd have some different colours in the flock. I've got two speckledy's, two black rocks, a bluebelle and an amber star. With the two cockerels in the mix the picture is a very pretty one:)