Solitary chicken - need advice

[Guest]

As we only have Maud who is laying now and as the BHWT are oversubscribed, we decided to get a cple of POL girlies.

 

Went to Garden Poultry in Frodsham with 2 Red Rockets in mind, but after chatting with John (the owner), we somehow ended up with a Blue Comet (Eleanor Rigby) and a Sussex Rock (Lucy in the sky with diamonds)

 

Eleanor and Lucy for short

 

Some pics

 

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Maud, looking bemused at the newcomers

 

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getting to know you, getting to know all about you (p.s. look at lottie, bottom right, she's all feathered up now!!! )

 

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you lookin' at me?

 

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I said, you lookin' at me?

 

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temporary quarters until they're all the best of chums

 

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Lucy already seems to be a bit of a madam (Lynda, I'm hoping you're not a prophet John said she should be okay with our girls, fingers x'd ) and Eleanor is a sweetie but it's early days obviously. Maud was a marauder when she first arrived and now she's my cuddle chicken

Edited September 29, 2008 by Guest

[Snowy]

They are lovely Poet, and by the looks of them shouldn't be long before you get eggs!

[Guest]

Hi Snowy, John reckons very soon, he showed us how to check the pelvic bone to see if they're near to laying and he thinks about 10 days or so

[Karen & co.]

They're lovely Now you have a multi coloured chook collection

 

Karen x

[Helen&Lee]

Love the new additions Poet.

 

Great names too

[The Brown Clan]

What gorgeous girlies

[Guest]

thank you Ian wanted to get a white one too! We could have called her (Dear) Prudence I told him 2 was quite enough for now!

[Lisa]

Lovely chooks!!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

What lovely girls - congratulations .

[Angels4]

Poet your new girls are beautiful. I love the names. Looking at the photos you posted it looks like you should be getting eggs anyday now. This photo look like there is a bit of squatting going on.

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[alih]

They are gorgeous - I got mine from garden Poultry too - I like them there... good luck with the integration - they all look really healthy and happy

[Guest]

thank you

 

the new girls' first day out

 

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[RubyReckless]

they look great!

[mrs chook]

Beautiful girlies

[sparkysmum]

Great photos, lovely girls, great names too

[poachedegg]

Lovely colours Poet.

[MedusA]

Lovely girls, Poet! Hope the introductions go well.

[Guest]

thanks guys

 

we let them free range together for a bit today and all went well for about 10 minutes until the old girls chased the new ones into bushes

 

we put the older girls back in their run to give the new girls a bit more of a chance to get their confidence up.

 

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[missuscluck]

Spotted your new chookies on Facebook!! They are lovley. I love the colours. Glad you got on well with the Garden Poultry man. Hope you found it ok. We got very lost when we went. Have fun with your new girls.

It will be great to have some eggs again. (still waiting for my new girlies to pop some eggs!!)

[Egg Lou]

Oh congratualtions! Lovely girls.. look really similar to two of mine.. what a lovely flock you have!