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Mother's Day presents!!

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Here are the new girls I got as Mother's day presents from my two children -

 

Gina

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Pina on the right

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Rosa

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And Bella

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The older girls have been going mad already and they are not even in the same run yet!!!!

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I think there will be fun and games next weekend :roll:

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Gina and Pina are Magpies, Rosa is an Amber Star and Bella is a Bluebelle. Bella has lovely gold marking on her neck - I didntknow Bluebelles had those :? they are all babies still - no combs as such and still getting their adult feathers so it will be a while before any eggs, but they are really cute - I managed to have a cuddle with all of them as I was trying to get them to bed this evening :D

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I think i will be still waiting on Rosa for a while yet :roll::roll: She still looks like a baby - her wattle and comb have grown only a little where as two of the others have got much biggrer and redder. She has a bad eye as well - I think she was pecked there but she can still open it for treats :lol: She is such a cutie though, easy to pick up and stroke that I dont mind another freeloader - still only 1 egg a day - just a different one every day :x

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The wather doent help... we have 400 chucks & lucky if we get 40 eggs at the mo..

All the birds you had from us would of been between 16 & 19 weeks, not a great differance in age.

 

She may never develop a big wattle etc... although she should not be pale in her face.

 

her eye will need treatment, an anti biotic cream from the vet will do the trick, or you could try the optrex eye drops with the anti biotic in them thats available over the counter. You dont want it to go through the flock, if she is not a 100% she will not lay.

 

Karen

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Good luck with treating Rosa's eye. I'm guessing the cream option would be easier to apply than drops. Hopefully that will do the trick and you'll start getting more eggs.

 

Sylvie's comb and wattles are nowhere near as big as Magpie's but she's got a much redder face now. She was 16/17 weeks when I got her on 21st Feb, so 21/22 weeks now.

 

This is her last week:

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Aaaaaaaaaah they are absolutely beautiful, lucky mummy, lucky chooks

hope llis well next week when all introduced to each other.

Wishing you happy families

 

 

Ms Tillythinkschooksaresomuchfunandsatousidewatchingthemfreerangeforanhourtoday

 

I have been very lucky with the introductions - they all went in the new cube at the same time after we had had the new girls a week so I guess that helped. There have been a few squawks but nothing major apart from poor little Rosa having her eye pecked. They are all getting on well and we are just hoping that Pina and Bella will lay soon as they are looking much redder these days. :)

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