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Updated: Just collected Ex batts!!!! With pics!

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Got a call this afternoon to see if I wanted the Ex Batts I was after since April! So I'm off to get some this evening.:D I think I'll just go for 4, as I already have the 3 that I bought in April.

 

However much I'd love to have a garden full, and I'd love to give them all a loving home, I don't want to be spending all evening cleaning poo from the patio!!!

 

Just got to decide on names for them!

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Well, I've only just got back and got them transfered from car to the chicken house, then put the kids to bed, so I haven't had chance to take any photos yet!

 

Bless them, they looked so bewildered! They had only just reached the co-ordinator by the time I arrived. They have some feathers but are about 50% bald - and really prickly to hold! I'll take photos of them first thing tomorrow when I let them out into their run.

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Only 2 have come out - Maisy managed to escape the run and ended up in the main shed with my original 3! I think the sight of her scared them as they ran out!

 

My original ones are not happy as the Ex Batts are in their "nesting" room. They haven't stopped complaining since they woke up!

 

Anyway, here is Maisy the brave one! First out and first to escape!

 

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Then the next one (Amelia) keeps coming and going in and out!

 

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I'll get photos of the other 2 when they come out!

 

They seem so confused - Maisy couldn't work out there was food or water at first. I emptied the food out of the feeder into a tray, then Amelia walked over the tray and tipped it up!

 

I noticed that Maisy is very dirty around her neck, and they smell awful. Do they clean themselves? I don't want t try to bath them in case they catch a cold!!!Maisy is also plucking herself.

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I just wish it would warm up a bit - they must be really cold (probably why Annabelle and Sinead won't come out - I'll have to encorouge them a little otherwise they won't eat or drink. There isn't much room in their run to put a dustbath. Maybe in a couple of days when they are a bit more confident, I'll let them out into the big run whilst my original girls are out free ranging.

 

Maisy has spread her wings a few times and flapped them a bit. Probably for the first time ever!

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I've just "encouraged " Sinead out and she is eating a lot. But I noticed she is bleeding a little from one of the missing feather lumps on her wing. Maisey kept trying to peck at it, so I have shut Maisey inside, while Sinead is eating. I'm off to the horse shop in a minute to see if I can get some purple spray and a small dog bowl to put the food in the coop without it getting knocked over. I can then put the food and water in coop for a while so that the weaker ones don't have to go out for it.

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