Stevie Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Since getting the Eglu in april last year with Sage & Onion-they've pretty much had full roam of my garden.Other than hosing their poop off decking/path-they've done very little damage and i enjoyed looking outside and seeing them happily pecking away,but... We've had sooooo much rain & snow recently and my lawn has taken a turn for the worst with their assistance..it now looks like a WW1 battlefield. I didnt want to confine them purely to the Eglu because they've had so much freedom so i bought some chicken wire and sectioned off the left hand border in my garden then attached the Eglu to it.Its still got all the shrubs and with plenty of soil to scratch about in its like an adventure playground! My napalmed lawn!!! Sage & Onion Their playground attached to Eglu. Their run goes down to bottom and then to right so still have plenty of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Stevie great to see you online, I was wondering how you and your girls were doing. (Loopyloo with a name change) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Stevie great to see you online, I was wondering how you and your girls were doing. (Loopyloo with a name change) Hello there! The girls are doing fine,but were a bit confused by all the snow recently and kept dashing inside house at any opportunity to see what Vegas my Bullmastiff had left behind in his bowl.They're still not entirely happy at being semi confined,but if i dont my garden will soon look like a farmyard! I might get a roll of the Omlet netting so i can give them different parts of garden by moving it around,but i'll see how this set up works out. I am however itching to get two more... Sage & Onion in the snow... and again-obviously before confinement. And Onion patiently waiting her turn for a drink! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I love that last picture! Yes my girls did not know what to make of the snow either, they were most put out.. I understand what you mean about your garden mine is worse and worse each day AND I have a walk in run. I have now bought a cube so my orange eglu is reserved for another omleteer, but I have added two more girls a week ago myself and am currently using the eglu to introduce them slowly. What type of girls are you itching for?? you have been busy!, their area looks great and your garden will return to looking like a show garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 I've been looking at that place in Bottisham and i've got a hankering for two Blubelles.They look so striking in that colour and it says they're tame! See here http://www.cambridgepoultry.co.uk/poultryforsale.htm The Eglu is suitable for upto 4 birds and they'll have plenty of space to move around without them feeling hemmed in so i cant forsee any problems like bullying.Plus,they'll only be sleeping in the Eglu plus laying and they will have ooodles of places to explore in my border playground and i can extend it further still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkor Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Ohh another Cambs Omleteer!!! hi ya! I was looking at Cambridge Poultry Website only last night thinking that a bluebell and speckldy may be the perfect additions to my flock and my new / Your fenced off area looks good, lots of bushes etc for them to play arounds! Love the pic of chook waiting for a drink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Ohh another Cambs Omleteer!!! hi ya! I was looking at Cambridge Poultry Website only last night thinking that a bluebell and speckldy may be the perfect additions to my flock and my new / Your fenced off area looks good, lots of bushes etc for them to play arounds! Love the pic of chook waiting for a drink Howdy-im down the road in St-Ives! I am particulary drawn to the Bluebell purely cos of its colour and how different it looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkor Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 So when will your bluebells be picked up then? You soundsound like you have mad up your mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Stevie great to see you online, I was wondering how you and your girls were doing. (Loopyloo with a name change) I only just realised that you had changed your name . My grass is looking terrible at the moment but it's begining to green up again . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluckbok Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hi Stevie, Our grass is looking a bit like yours But we have hope that it will come back lush and green again. Are you going to add a run extension on your eglu run if you getting another 2? We were thinking of getting another, but not made the move yet. We would get another from Cambridge Poultry, not been there before but spoke on the phone and they friendly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 So when will your bluebells be picked up then? You soundsound like you have mad up your mind Dont know yet.Im pretty impulsive anyway,but made my mind up within seconds of seeing the Bluebells on that website so might be soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hi Stevie, Our grass is looking a bit like yours But we have hope that it will come back lush and green again. Are you going to add a run extension on your eglu run if you getting another 2? We were thinking of getting another, but not made the move yet. We would get another from Cambridge Poultry, not been there before but spoke on the phone and they friendly. I wont need a run extension because the Eglu is attached to chicken wire all down one side of plant border so they currently have 7ft of standard Eglu run plus around 25ft of the border-which is ample.Im still toying with the idea of getting Omlet netting and sectioning off various parts of garden,but rotaing it so the lawn dont get destroyed-as it is now..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkor Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 So when will your bluebells be picked up then? You soundsound like you have mad up your mind Dont know yet.Im pretty impulsive anyway,but made my mind up within seconds of seeing the Bluebells on that website so might be soon! Might see you there then as like you decided straight away and now CAN`T WAIT to gt them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Steve I just got a bluebelle!!! you know I ALWAYS wanted one too.. she's called Dory there are more pictures of my girls further along the chicken area.. also still laughing at Mostin banging her head at not realising I had changed my name... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*mummy_hen* Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Lovely pictures, my garden has also been chickened over the winter months. Husband and i have decided next weekend we are going to chicken proof the garden - they killed our lawn so think we may have to opt for gravel!! They are weapons of mass destruction....but we love them!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Watch Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hi. I went through this last year. Last winter hubbie put his foot down and we got Omlet netting and now the girls just wreck one patch over winter, which we reseed in Spring. I have to say the Omlet 25m netting isn't cheap but I would say it has been my best chicken buy in the last 2 years. I even cut mine in half so I have 2 sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 also still laughing at Mostin banging her head at not realising I had changed my name... I know , how slow on the uptake am I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Im relieved now Stevie, cos I was beginning to think you had the most perfect lawn & chickens in Omletland and now see that your hens are just like mine! I think you've saved your lawn just in time though - ours is brown "farmyard" style mud now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooklady Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 My grass has been chickened too, if the dog had done what they have done he would never have got away with it! I've got a Bluebelle, she is gorgeous, go on treat yourself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 also still laughing at Mostin banging her head at not realising I had changed my name... I know , how slow on the uptake am I? well you've been busy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westleigh Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hi just to let you know i got my bluebelle,black rock and light sussex from cambridge paoltry in september,he had loads of girls for sale and they seem really healthy,cost 12.50 each which i thought was quite reasonable . seems there is lots of us omlets in cambridge. p.s cookiemonster i started with 4 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 Im relieved now Stevie, cos I was beginning to think you had the most perfect lawn & chickens in Omletland and now see that your hens are just like mine! I think you've saved your lawn just in time though - ours is brown "farmyard" style mud now. When i got home from work today,i went outside to retrieve eggs,top up grub & glug,make a fuss of em' and i thought i'd have a go at raking the compacted poop on right side of first photo.Turns out it isnt poo and its their food cos i could smell the garlic i add to it so now i have a really stinky lawn! The lawn was doing sort of ok until we kept getting rain then snow then rain then snow and the chooks kinda went mad scratching.Should be alright with a bit of tlc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hi just to let you know i got my bluebelle,black rock and light sussex from cambridge paoltry in september,he had loads of girls for sale and they seem really healthy,cost 12.50 each which i thought was quite reasonable . seems there is lots of us omlets in cambridge. p.s cookiemonster i started with 4 lol I started with 2!!! and doubling my numbers in a year wasn't what I thought I would do, however I have always wanted a bluebelle, just like Stevie, so she was a must! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
