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[katieadams]

I have grass and a fair amount of weeds - who said chickens ate weeds!

 

Mine do

 

So do mine, specially dandelions

[Angels4]

Mine save the weeds for desert....Grass and new sprouts are the main course.

[lugreen]

thanks to my wonderful Glen and our family and friends my has arrived! and as its a couple of weeks early I can get my girls for my birthday

 

we still need to sort out the woodchip and I have some applewood branches to build them a gym but I was so excited - and there was no way Glen was wrapping the omlet boxes - that we put it together this weekend. Here is where we are so far....

 

[quickcluck]

What a lovely surprise! It looks great too You have a very interesting shaped garden......... It will be lovely to be able to look down on your girls....

 

When are you going chook shopping? What are you looking to get?

 

 

 

P.S have just seen that you are not far from me.... you must be on top of a hill!

[Jennyhenny]

Looks fantastic

 

Is that lots of veggies I see growing - say goodbye to them

 

Jennyhenny

[Drew and Alan]

Wow!!! nice gardens!!! we are jealous!!! makes ours look like a neglected mess! definately not gona be posting any photos of ours now! lol!

 

We have a big'ish' garden now (well in french terms its tiny, our neighbours is 200 acres!?!!..) but our previous house's garden in England was tiny, just a small flower border and a patio to put a table n chairs but it was home n we loved it at the time!

[Groovychook]

What a fantastic looking place!

That's a very cute little dog too...!

[tidygirlsuk]

thanks to my wonderful Glen and our family and friends my has arrived! and as its a couple of weeks early I can get my girls for my birthday

 

we still need to sort out the woodchip and I have some applewood branches to build them a gym but I was so excited - and there was no way Glen was wrapping the omlet boxes - that we put it together this weekend. Here is where we are so far....

 

 

I remember your photos before the eglu It looks great That is all you need a place to sit and room for chickens.

Edited June 17, 2009 by Guest

[lugreen]

Alan and Drew - I love your garden!! one day, one day.....

 

Quickcluck - I'm on the High Road, Cemetary Corner. The old police station, which is why I have so little garden! When I first moved in it was all prefab concrete shed, which is why I have the great big concrete slab - as I can't get rid of it, I determined to cover it!!

 

I'm chook chopping on Saturday; Smilers, Upsons and Happy Hens I think - can't wait!!

 

In the meantime I am frantically rehoming all the veg not in the raised bed into hanging baskets etc. Happy for the chooks to forage about but would still like to have something to eat occasionally - plus my very spoilt guineas would be most unhappy if they thought they were missing out!

 

Thanks tidygirls - you're so right; I'm so looking forward to sitting on the deck, glass of wine in hand, sun on my face and the girls clucking around - my very own good life...

[quickcluck]

That's very exciting!!!! I know exactly where you are....

 

If you've a choice i'd use Smilers as a last resort...... the other 2 have fab reputations, the guy round the corner to me get EVERYTHING from upson's including his hens!!! He's kept chooks for years without probs... Also Kirsty at H H's is great. Penguinmad has had hens from her and she's very helpful.......

 

Let us know how you get on. If you want to come round anytime just let me know!

[Jennyhenny]

 

I'm chook chopping on Saturday;

 

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Crickey Did you mean shopping

 

Jennyhenny

[lugreen]

 

I'm chook chopping on Saturday;

 

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Crickey Did you mean shopping

 

Jennyhenny

 

 

err, yes! all the excitement is getting to me I think

[tidygirlsuk]

 

I'm chook chopping on Saturday;

 

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Crickey Did you mean shopping

 

Jennyhenny

 

 

[MedusA]

My garden is only 5 metres wide but is about 25-30 metres long (if you include the side return of the house). I've got my girls in a 5X3 metre walk-in run along one side but now I've had to clear another area further down for my beehive which arrives soon.

 

This is a recent "arial" pic taken when we had snow this winter.

 

 

And this one gives a bit more detail on the position of the chicken run (pre cube).

 

[tidygirlsuk]

Lovely big garden but I don't think that your going to win

[lugreen]

I got my girls on Saturday!! A Speckled, Bluebelle x and a RIR - they are absolutely the best present ever I am utterly in love, and everyone is right, my tiny concrete patch is a garden transformed!

 

And as a final glorious bonus... the RIR laid our first egg the first morning she was here (RIR and Bluebelle are 22 weeks ); Indy's first bday present! I'll post some pics on a new thread.

[quickcluck]

Ohhhhhhhh where did they come from??

 

Glad you are in love already!

[Chickvic]

Congratulations! Hope you did the egg dance too

[Jennyhenny]

[lugreen]

Thank you everyone

 

I got them from Smilers in the end, Upsons sold out of their stock in 2 days (!) as had the other place I was looking at and wouldn't be getting anything new they said until August - I couldn't wait till August - nothing lonelier looking than an empty !

 

So, I popped into Smilers who were getting stock in last week and said they'd see about finding me a Speckledy.... And I can't complain, I went from no chickens at all, to thinking I'd have to get what I could, to getting my perfect trio!! A Speckledy and a Bluebelle were top of the list (and the Bluebelle is so pretty, she's a cross with a Black Rock?/Bovan Nera? and whereas some of the girls were blue all over, she has a dark head and the wonderful orange front) and then I had a choice of their Black Comets, White Stars or Rhodes and went with a Rhodes.

 

The girls have all settled brilliantly - some runny droppings but I put that down to moves, change of diet and 8yr olds bday parties!! - the Speckledy is approx 18 wks and top hen, Blue (20-22wks) a bossy second and Red (the oldest at 22+wks) the cheery, friendly, egg laying "baby" who gets bullied by Blue, protected by Specks and cooed at by me!

 

And yes, lots of egg dancing going on; it made us late for Indy's Build-a-Bear bday party... but with the best excuse ever

[tidygirlsuk]

congratulations, first chickens, first egg, what a week !

[chickencam]

This is my garden taken this morning, it is shaped like a quarter of a circle, with a busy lane bordering one side and a main road on another, with a curved wall at the junction.

 

 

It is about 35ft I think at it's longest and widest point but I don't think that we have ever actually measured it. We have packed in as much as we can, or have we? More chickens planned for down one side of the house

 

Behind the big eucalyptus that overhangs the Eglu there is a fenced off bed with climbing french beans in it and we have 4 small apple trees, a plum tree, and a cherry tree along with 4 blackcurrant bushes and 2 redcurrant bushes a greenhouse and a summerhouse which is out of shot by the house. Oh and I nearly forgot the pond that is home to approx 14 fish and of course the Eglu with run extension

 

When we moved in it was a lawn with a few honeysuckles and ivies growing up the walls, the people before us didn't use it much.

[quickcluck]

Liz, thats look fantastic!!!