4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[TAJ]

This weekend marks a year since I actually joined the Omlet site, though I have read it for longer than that. So what has happened in that year? First an Eglu, then 3 hens, (all birthday presents a few weeks early), then the start of eggs and by May I was doing henparties - 7 so far. Then in November we got 4 table birds at 2½ weeks old, with a brooder, heat lamp, etc, a Rablu followed these as they grew up and went outside. Then following OH going on the culling course we got 6 more table birds, but this time different breeds and as day old chicks.

 

So currently we have hens in the eglu laying well after 2 moulting, 2 still growing in the Rablu and 6 in the dinning room, now coming up to 2½ weeks old.

 

Plans for the future? I must confess thinking about whether a cube will fit in the Eglu space, so I could up the layers with the odd blue/green/white/dark brown, but what would I lose, the Rablu or the Eglu?

 

...and 836 posts on here

 

Happy Omletting!

 

Tracy

Edited January 16, 2009 by Guest

[iar fach goch]

you have been busy! Well done you!

[BeckyBoo]

There can't be many people who end up with the same number they started with! Sounds like a good year to me, wonder how many you'll have this time next year? I started with 5, now I've got 17 have eaten one, have plans for two more of the boys and have had two hatches. They're a bit obsessive aren't they, mind you, I was warned by everyone on here, but did I believe them.......

 

BB

[Egluntyne]

A busy year. Congratulations.

[Olly]

Gosh that's quite a year! Did you have previous chicken experience?

 

I am just planning to measure the garden today to work out where the walk-in run can go (depends if I get a bonus in February ), but I think five chooks is probably my limit.

It'll be my 2-year anniversary next month, and I can't believe that this time two years ago I'd never even held a chicken!

[Seagazer]

Congratulations

[mostin]

They should come with an addiction warning

 

That is quite a yeat TAJ, well done .

[Redwing]

Hooray! happy first year henniversary

[TAJ]

Thanks all - I have been measuring up for a cube and went to see some chickens today to add the the layers - it is looking like a cream legbar, Silver gray Dorking and a Speckledy may be the ones I want next.

 

Tracy

[Chickvic]

Congratulations

[crazygal]

Congratulations!

 

You really have packed a lot of chickeny things into one year!

 

Its about a year since I joined the forum and got my first hens too...we've learnt a lot over the last year, best thing I've ever done