Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[tom123]

These are my new hens that I got this morning...

 

Bertie

 

 

and...

 

Lucy

 

 

They are in the rabbit ark for today then the dreaded intros!!!

 

Tom

Edited November 10, 2008 by Guest

[gracefruit]

They are lovely! Congratulations on your new additions.

[Redwing]

Super girls Tom

[Scramble]

Lovely girls!

Super cute

 

names

 

hmm Lucy, I wonder why you wanted to name her that...

 

x

[Plum]

They're great Tom. Look like they are going to be characters.

[Dinkychick]

cute i have a bertie...well ok she is the same breed. how old are they?

[tom123]

They are POL

 

Lucy is already very tame however Bertie is definitely the more dominant and has a go at Lucy quite often but its getting better now

 

Thanks

Tom

[Seagazer]

Congratulations - lovely looking hens

[Groovychook]

Lovely chooks Tom!

Nice names too!!

Best of luck with the introductions!

[Egluntyne]

Congratulations.

[HENthusiastic]

Lovely girls. Enjoy them.

[tom123]

Thanks Guys they really are lovely hens... Bertie is now called Poppy for two reasons my mum thought it sounded like a boy and my nan said i should call her poppy as I got her on remembrance Sunday!

 

Here is some pics...

 

Bertie now renamed...Poppy

 

 

 

 

And Lucy looking scary!

 

 

 

And the two of them together!

 

 

 

 

About the intros...

 

Today I got home from school and let the new girls out for the first time and they were so good and then I let Milly out... Perfect! they looked like they had known each other for years! They were happy to share some corn and come and peck around me together BUT then I thought I would let Molly out...Not a good idea she ran straight for Lucy and attacked her, hackles up squawking and grabbed her by the tail and pulled her about and I know this is normal but I couldn't understand why Milly hadn't done this So I put Molly on her own in the rabbit run and left Milly,Lucy and Poppy out together. When it got dark all three of them happily went to bed together in the normal house and poor Molly was alone in the rabbit ark. Tomorrow I plan to let the three of them out for a while then slowly introduce Molly to them !!!

 

Sorry I waffled on but I was quite surprised by each individual hens reactions!

 

I will keep you posted

 

Thanks

Tom

[moomin]

Sounds like you have it sorted Tom, best of luck hope Molly settles down soon

[mostin]

Lovely new girls, and lovely piccies.

[pencilbeckett]

Hi

 

Lovely girls congrats and great pics

[Plum]

Great pics. Hope they are settling down. Mine have been doing a bit of chasing and pecking on back of neck. Its not nice is it. Cant blame her being jealous of your new girls good looks .