Oct 18, 2011 13:38:18 GMT
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Post by ron on May 8, 2021 10:34:49 GMT
My chooks bonnie and daisy
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Post by ariella on May 8, 2021 11:45:50 GMT
Gorgeous girls, Ron. This is the last of my flock, Emilia, currently 10 years old. They say hens will get depression and not thrive without a flock but she’s living the good life and has been on her own for five years! I was expecting her to pass relatively quickly after the last one (bossy) Beatrice passed as it was just before we moved house and I thought all the upheaval and so on would make her go downhill but she did the absolute opposite. She’s an Exchequer Leghorn
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May 8, 2021 14:26:54 GMT
Post by ron on May 8, 2021 14:26:54 GMT
Thanks Ariella, emelia's a bonnie chook , didnt know much about them so had a quick read up and seems they were started from a scottish breeders flock of leghorns back in 1904. Have read that too but disagree as we we got daisy her daughter and 2 hybrids when we started keeping chickens and she outlasted them all and was on her own doing great for a while before we decided to incubate some mixed bantam eggs and bonnie is the last pekin bantam from the eggs that hatched. We got a frizzle from the hatch will have to see if I can find some pics of her
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May 8, 2021 16:20:16 GMT
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Post by ariella on May 8, 2021 16:20:16 GMT
I love frizzles and would love to see a photo. The purebreeds do seem to outlive the hybrids. Emilia was the last of the flock to lay and we called her ‘too posh to push’ for a while! She has a little lay in the spring and then thinks that’s enough now and is loving her retirement. It’s so interesting watching hens and they have such different personalities. Emilia was always the most laid-back and that’s obviously given her a good life. We had a speckled maran (Isabella) who laid wonderful double-yolkers, a white leghorn (Jemima), a goldline hybrid (Clarissa - pts due to an ovarian tumour), a black rock (Matilda) and Bossy Beatrice was a light Sussex hybrid. She was the only one who went broody. She went ballistic for about an hour when she was removed from the nest and put in the old double hutch we used as a hospital wing and in that case a broody breaker. Took 3 days and she was fine when she rejoined the others and luckily no more broodiness. The kids were little and used to call her the swearing chicken as she didn’t make a normal ‘bok-bok’ sound but would make a ‘bug-ger…bug…bug…bug-ger’. You’ve had a lot of experience with birds, Ron. They do make for intelligent and interesting company.
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Oct 18, 2011 13:38:18 GMT
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May 8, 2021 19:19:03 GMT
Post by ron on May 8, 2021 19:19:03 GMT
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May 8, 2021 19:56:57 GMT
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Post by ariella on May 8, 2021 19:56:57 GMT
They are lovely, all of them, ron, but Frizz is great!
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Post by Hezz on May 9, 2021 1:09:29 GMT
Love that a Scotsman calls a chook a chook as well! . To me chook is the animal, chicken is the meat.
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May 9, 2021 5:44:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2021 5:44:42 GMT
I'd never heard them called chooks until I came here.
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Post by ron on May 9, 2021 8:37:59 GMT
Used to work on a local farm as a bairn and the farmer aye called them chooks so thats probably where it comes fae and I like you're way of thinking there Hezz
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