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[G and B]

First of all, thanks to everyone for their sympathy messages on our sad loss of Evadne - the ginger girl is greatly missed.

 

Her loss left Hilda, our Miss Pepperpot, on her own, so two days later we went to Martins Wood Farm and chose Joan (a White Star) and Amy (a Skyline). This was last Monday, 29/12/2008. Joan being at point of lay, immediately got on with Hilda (20 months old) and they're now best of friends.

 

 

Unfortunately, with Amy being that much younger than Joan, she was bullied by Joan and Hilda, despite following all the advice regarding introductions, we ended up with Amy in her own eglu on Friday morning. Having discussed the situation, we decided that Amy needed a friend of her own age, so we went back to Martins Wood and brought Lucy home! She's another Skyline from the same litter - same age.

 

 

Thankfully, they're already the best of friends and are quite happy looking at the 'older' girls through the bars. We had a very strictly supervised wander round the garden this afternoon with all four out, and apart from one peck, all is at peace.

 

 

It's early days, and we definitely have two separate pairs of hens at the moment, but as Amy and Lucy mature and come into lay, we're sure that they'll all get along. We'll update you as time goes by. The guys at Martins Wood Farm near Lewes were extremely helpful and accommodating, highly recommend them if you're in Sussex.

 

Graham and Barry

Edited January 4, 2009 by Guest

[Ain't Nobody Here]

What a clever solution to the problem - another chicken .

 

They all look lovely - fingers crossed they are best of friends soon .

[moochoo]

What beautiful girls! You'll get a lovely selection of egg colours from them too. Hope introductions go well.

[Egluntyne]

How lovely. Congratulations and I'm glad you sorted out the friendship problem.

 

It isn't every day that you hear of a hen called Joan!

[ruth1]

Lovely girls

[Happy chickens!]

They look gorgeous!

[poachedegg]

Lucky you - they look lovely!

[Tiggy]

so glad things have worked out for you and your girls

[Groovychook]

Congratulations!

I'm so pleased Hilda's got some new friends!

A happy ending!

[alih]

they are beauties and you are right, the 2 pairs will merge eventually - we had 2 x 2 for a few weeks until the babes came into lay and then they were a true flock. Lovely colours! do keep us up-to-date!

[chelsea]

A happy ending is on the card me thinks... we intergrated 2 + 2 flocks in 2007 with great success after living apart for some time.

 

Great news. keep us posted.

[mostin]

Very cute girlies, I'm very

[helenmb]

It isn't every day that you hear of a hen called Joan!

Maybe she should be living in an Ark rather than an Eglu - Joan of Eglu doesn't have quite the same ring does it

 

The will integrate into one group of 4 but it usually takes 3-4 weeks for them to gel, that's what happened with my two sets of intros.