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Some chicken keeping friends of ours from Cumbria sent these beautiful egg cups for the children for Christmas.

 

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They've had few outings to the lunchtable already - aren't they fab?

 

Only problem is we have to pad them out with kitchen roll as the bantie's eggs get a bit lost!.................

 

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:shock::wink:

Debs

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Bantambabe Frequent Layer

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Well.... funny you should say that - I have a cunning plan!

 

Have taken up Bertie McSquirty's idea of collecting £2 coins, you don't get them that often so tend not to miss them. Once there's enough I'm getting a proper walk-in run made so I can expand the flock.

 

The OH :wall: has banned the ladies from being allowed to free-range as they are trashing the garden (or in truth, his railway line :doh: ) so I can't possibly get any at the mo.

 

Someone at work who has a smallholding is going to hatch me a couple of legbars hopefully, can't wait for those pretty eggs.

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Paola Feathery Fanatic

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The OH :wall: has banned the ladies from being allowed to free-range as they are trashing the garden (or in truth, his railway line :doh: ) so I can't possibly get any at the mo.

he has a railway line of his own??? :shock: what sort?

 

That is what I was thinking :D Any pictures?

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Oh it's a bit anoraky really. It's a track that runs around the pond at the bottom of the garden and he has radio controlled, gas powered steam trains. The main problem is that the track and sleepers are bedded in grit/gravel which the chooks love eating/digging up etc. And when they rampaged through the station and knocked over the terracotta people I thought he would blow a gasket! :roll::roll:

 

Here are the ladies when they hadn't worked out they could get up onto the track

 

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And again when they found their favourite roosting spot on the bridge... :clap:

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What can I say?.. :silenced:

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Olly SUPER CHICKEN!!!

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that picture of them roosting on the track is brilliant - I'm just imagining trains getting brought to a halt by a steaming pile of chicken poo! :D What a great railway, seriously, I can see why he would find chicken interference a trifle annoying. Although I bet he's spent more on the railway than you have on your chickens ...

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OMG, you would not believe (or maybe you would?) how much has been spent on the railway. With slate from the welsh mountains, a pond & waterfall, track etc and that's before you even begin to consider the engines and rolling stock. (but I could probably have bought atleast 4 cubes :shock: )

 

No I'm not feeling guilty about order the mesh panels/doors etc for my new 9'x6' run I'm building for the ladies - they're only ( :wink: ) going to come to about £140!

 

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