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Post by Shirls on Apr 4, 2015 17:42:13 GMT
Now the days are getting warmer I have to have the conservatory door/s open, but as you know Bea and Georgie like to come into the house!! So, I discovered the end of their old coop just fits the gap when one door is open, so handy! However, the girls sometimes sit outside and peck at the bars trying to get in: Bea eventually got fed up and walked off, but Georgie decided to sit down and wait it out! This is Georgie sitting down - she's HUGE!!
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Post by reajen01 on Apr 4, 2015 17:43:45 GMT
Super! Love it
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Post by suesbird on Apr 4, 2015 18:04:35 GMT
They are lovely Shirls, do you ever let them in? Such fluffy bums and they looks so well
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Post by skysmum on Apr 4, 2015 18:05:44 GMT
Ohhh love them . They have such beautiful Bustles
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Post by milliej on Apr 4, 2015 20:17:13 GMT
They are gorgeous and must miss you ahhh I love their wonderful 'coats'? I'm sure that's not the right word for hens! Is it?
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Post by Hezz on Apr 5, 2015 0:28:40 GMT
They are beautiful, Shirls. They just want to come in and live with youuuuuuuuuuuu. They are the colour of the little hen I found, and I am finding now that it isn't so common, if I wanted to get some like her. Not here anyway. I am sure your girls are twice the size of Tookie, but her feathrs had that lovely soft fluffiness to them as well.
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Post by Shirls on Apr 5, 2015 7:05:37 GMT
I did let them in a couple of times suesbird, just to the conservatory, just so they could see there was nothing in there to interest them! I thought it may stop them trying to come in. How wrong could I be? As far as I know milliej, 'coat' will do fine, although their coat is made up of feathers! Ooooh, thinking of it then Hezz, getting some hens??? There are several colours of Orpington, so perhaps you could get a different colour to the buffs??? I need to weigh them again as Bea was losing weight recently. Don't know if I mentioned it on here but she became egg bound, went to the vet, had an injection. She went broody, so I had to put her in a crate, with no hay, to break her of being broody which happened very quickly (she obviously preferred her soft warm bed to a holey floor). Then she didn't lay for a week (which is normal) so another crisis over with the chooks! She is back to laying normally now and I think she has recovered some of her lost weight.
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Post by Hezz on Apr 5, 2015 7:21:32 GMT
I wasn't sure that Orpingtons would have been available in Australia but it seems they are. I don't necessarily want Orpingtons .......... don't know what I want to be honest, if I do get some, sometime. At least I do have OH on side for a few chooks, if needed.
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Post by OP on Apr 5, 2015 7:36:01 GMT
They 'Just Wanna be With You'
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 5, 2015 8:36:24 GMT
Aw.. I'd have to let them in, but I am a soft touch..
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Post by Shirls on Apr 5, 2015 9:20:26 GMT
It is very difficult to say 'no' to them I must say! But just think, I will be having 3 more chickens very shortly! And that would be a totally different 'poo' story to the budgies!
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Post by samwiseg on Apr 5, 2015 10:10:47 GMT
5 CHICKENS! OOoh how exciting!!!! When when when Shirls? I WANT I WANT I WANT!
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Post by Hezz on Apr 5, 2015 10:32:24 GMT
Yeah ........ much bigger in the poop department than a budgie!!!! Definitely not an inside bird. Sorry, chookies ...................
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Post by OP on Apr 5, 2015 11:16:36 GMT
You don't fancy having one on your shoulder then, Hezz?
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Post by Hezz on Apr 5, 2015 11:17:50 GMT
Nope!!!!!
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