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Post by Shirls on Apr 27, 2015 7:35:06 GMT
Managed to get in touch with my chookie breeder and she has several clutches of baby chooks !!!! Anyway, the first clutch of 6 are about 3 weeks old. She hasn't counted all the other chicks !!! Why not I ask myself - but she does have rather a lot of chickens and various other fowl to look after. So, in two months time I shall be able to go and collect three more, 8-10 week old Buff Orpingtons. WHAT am I letting myself in for??? Watch this space. Names on the agenda are: Tilly (Atilla the hen), Penny (in memory of one I lost) and a third one that may be JoJo.  Edit: JoJo is probably now going to be called Hettie (for Henrietta). But things may change, I decided on names after I had the others so that the names suited the birds. |
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Post by birdguhl on Apr 27, 2015 7:37:18 GMT
Exciting stuff! We will be all agog for news - 5 chooks!!! There will lots to report...
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Post by samwiseg on Apr 27, 2015 7:49:39 GMT
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Want NOW! And pictures too!!!!! To think this what they are like....  SWEEEEEEEEEET! |
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Post by suesbird on Apr 27, 2015 8:04:36 GMT
Fantastic news Shirls, you are a b****r for punishment  . Please be aware Jo Jo's can be little madams! Can't wait for the pics, I couldn't wait that long  but I know you have to  |
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Post by jellybean on Apr 27, 2015 13:38:55 GMT
More chookies...................Wonderful. Good luck with it all Shirls, bet you can hardly wait |
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Post by Susannah on Apr 28, 2015 0:07:24 GMT
Awww, that wonderful...so cute and love the names...lots of fun and games to come, lol
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Post by Hezz on Apr 28, 2015 0:34:19 GMT
Chook chicks are such sweet little creatures - how could you not fall in love with that??? Can't wait to see your new members, Shirls. How exciting ............ um ........ are you going to be able to consume 5 chooks-worth of eggs?  Have to tell a story ....... when I was about 6 years old, my grandmother won a couple of ducklings in a church raffle. Rather than having a re-draw, dear Grannie decided they would be lovely gifts for my brother and I for our birthdays, these being only a week apart. I am sure you can guess who was less than enthusiastic about the whole thing ............. my mother! Of course all responsibility fell on dear old Mum, and all the fun was had by us kids. |
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Post by Shirls on Apr 29, 2015 6:30:59 GMT
I bet you did have fun with ducklings! They do make a mess tho don't they? Your poor old Mum!! I shall be (hopefully) selling some of the chookie eggs Hezz, then that will put some money towards their feed costs. Mind you, the two of them are eating me out of house and home at the moment! I buy fresh cabbage (just for them) frozen sweetcorn as well as fresh on the cob, carrots and they sometimes have grated cheese (which they love). They also have parsnip and swede when I can be bothered to grate it and they get the leafy end of the cauliflower. They love home grown tomatoes (won't eat shop ones!!) They have a treat (every day) of a couple of grapes and I won't go into the list of seed and chicken food they have! It's no wonder that Georgie is a 10lb bird already. She is sooooo greedy! |
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Post by jellybean on Apr 29, 2015 9:12:53 GMT
Gosh Shirls, these girls must be the best fed chookies on the planet |
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Post by Shirls on Apr 29, 2015 10:11:10 GMT
I think you are right there jellybean. Problem was that when I got them they were so skinny and, I didn't know it at the time very poorly, so I had to build them up. Trouble is they have got used to it now and have come to expect it!!! |
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Post by Hezz on Apr 30, 2015 0:58:16 GMT
Good idea; more and more people are looking to get back to normal eggs as opposed to the battery farm ones. Otherwise you yourself might just end up looking like an egg, lol. Well-fed chooks? It sounds like they are the royalty of all chooks. |
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. Please be aware Jo Jo's can be little madams!
but I know you have to 
