Keeping hens and ducks chat.

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Karmacat

Those are amazing photos, Edwink, thank you for posting. They look such characters, and your fence is just wow.

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Hope you enjoyed seeing some of the pics I have been taking. Didn't want to bore you all with them so just chose one of each selection I have taken over the past couple of weeks.

The first pic of Langley is one of my favourites I have of her. She was the little hen that was rehomed here after a fox killed 16 of her friends. She escaped the fox attack by flying up and perching on top of a fence and was the only one that survived out of 17 hens. She just found the highest place to sleep in the kitchen because that is where she obviously felt the safest whilst we were all chatting and having a cuppa, bless her.

I absolutely love the one of Hoppy resting her head whilst chilling out in the orchard area. Behind her are the old fence panels that are going to be fitted along the boundary in our allotment area to try and hold the hedging back as it's a mammoth task twice a year to cut it all back.

Cleaned out the ducks hotel today. I'm sure their hotel is actually cleaner than our house. Although there is only two ducks sleeping in it at the moment it is still cleaned out twice a week because of the warm weather. This is done not only for their comfort but also because I hate flies buzzing around it.

Finally will get some housework done tomorrow although I've still got to collect and tidy all the flower pots up that the fox knocked over before he jump through the hedge when my hubby chased him out. What a blooming mess he has made.

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Cheery_Daff

Lovely photos edwink, thanks for sharing :j :j I'll get round to sharing some one day I promise... Pesky fox knocking all your pots over :eek: Love the one of Langley asleep in the kitchen :j :j

Rusty had a little adventure earlier today... She's got into the habit of standing squarking in the front porch, which is amplified into the living room, and Mr Cheery always lets her in and she always ends up with some kind of treat :rotfl:

Anyway this morning she was squarking away so I let her in and she hopped up onto the sofa where Mr Cheery normally sits and was clucking and fussing and looking for him (well, that's how I interpreted it -I imagine really she was just looking for an apple core :rotfl: ) Anyway, Mr Cheery was still in bed, so I picked her up and we went to visit him :rotfl: :rotfl:

I'm not sure she was impressed :rotfl: It was a bit dark in there so I suspect she couldn't really see much, so we left again after about 30 seconds :rotfl: Not Sure Mr Cheery was too impressed either being woken up by a chicken :rotfl: :rotfl:

And I think I confused her by taking her out of the back door when she came in the front :rotfl: But all her pals were outside the back door and she doesn't seem remotely perturbed by it :rotfl:

Mixed their food with water this morning to make it into a mash. They don't seem to have been eating much of it, and I'm convinced they just don't like to eat the big pellets Well I have no idea if that's true :rotfl: but they certainly eat more of it when it's mixed with water into a kind of mush.

Possibly helped that I was doing some scything again this morning so left them shut in the run for about an hour after I let them out of their house, so they didn't have anything else to do in there but eat :rotfl:

Had a couple of soft shelled eggs lately, usually squashed in the house before I've got there, so I've started crushing up eggshells for them again - got out of the habit of that This morning I mixed a whole egg, and some crushed (really crushed up almost into powder) into their mash for a bit of protein/calcium.

Oh, and they may have had their first taste of banana this afternoon :rotfl: :rotfl: No wonder they don't eat their flippin breakfast :eek: :rotfl:

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Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Rusty had a little adventure earlier today... She's got into the habit of standing squarking in the front porch, which is amplified into the living room, and Mr Cheery always lets her in and she always ends up with some kind of treat :rotfl:

Anyway this morning she was squarking away so I let her in and she hopped up onto the sofa where Mr Cheery normally sits and was clucking and fussing and looking for him (well, that's how I interpreted it -I imagine really she was just looking for an apple core :rotfl: ) Anyway, Mr Cheery was still in bed, so I picked her up and we went to visit him :rotfl: :rotfl:

I'm not sure she was impressed :rotfl: It was a bit dark in there so I suspect she couldn't really see much, so we left again after about 30 seconds :rotfl: Not Sure Mr Cheery was too impressed either being woken up by a chicken :rotfl: :rotfl:

And I think I confused her by taking her out of the back door when she came in the front :rotfl: But all her pals were outside the back door and she doesn't seem remotely perturbed by it :rotfl:

Aww bless her Cheery. That reminds me of the time that mine were down at the house at the back and were pecking and tapping the glass on the French doors. I'd already given them some meal worms and chopped fruit for treats so I left them to it. A while later I went to take the recycling out the front door and when I opened the door there was a hen waiting to be let in. She just wandered past me in to the hallway and carried on in to the kitchen. When I came back in the front with the recycling bin she was chirping at the French door where the others were but on the other side of it. I opened the door and let her out and just stood there shaking my head. What peculiar & odd creatures hens are :rotfl:

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Pyxis

As the colloquial Welsh for jellyfish is pysgod wibbli wobbli, (where pysgod means fish), my weird brain reckons that, instead of soft-shelled egg, it should be called wibbli wobbli egg.

Please take note, inwardly digest, and implement!






By the way, can wibbli wobbli eggs be eaten? Or is that not advisable, due to the risk of them being contaminated?




Love the photos, Edwink!

I see you have quite a collection of chickeny, ducky things!