Chickens all want to stay in the doorway!

[Space Chick]

 

quitest cutest little thing in the whole wide world!

 

 

That wouldn't be the silkie you have fallen in love with would it

[Falkor]

 

quitest cutest little thing in the whole wide world!

 

 

That wouldn't be the silkie you have fallen in love with would it

 

nope.....the silkie is Likes the sound of her own voice

 

the quiet one is the little black pekin cross she is a real little character, waddles over and then cocks her ickle head at me

[Space Chick]

Well she'd be more than welcome at my house

 

All 10 of mine have been Like the sound of their own voice today

 

Even my quiet baby Leela has been sizing up at the divide shouting at the Ex Batts, I think she's staking her claim to no longer be bottom of the pecking order

[chick wiggle]

awww, just caught this thread Palmer 07, they are just soooo gorgeous, the frizzle has my heart. she looks like a head popping out of a feather boa they are so sweet, the little one in the blue t-shirt and shorts looks cute - Loving the foody names too,(clever with names Cookie is isnt she )

[Cooks]

 

Come Em on what are their real names?...

 

I want a picture of the ickle pekin that cocks it's head.. it's a must!!!

[Falkor]

nope, not naming them until at least the weekend.........hopefully they will have settled down by then and then I can start getting attached.

[Cooks]

now your not playing this game correctly Emma!!! <-- notice I used full name..

[Space Chick]

I'd shout and kick up a fuss if I didn't have a name too

 

C'mon Emma, name them and I'm sure they will quieten down

[Falkor]

Will you both be there to mop up my tears when I have to send them away and you made me get attached!

 

I am thinking

 

Lemon Pekin - Lemon

Red Pekin - Fudge

Black Pekin cross - Treacle (still not sure on that one)

Buff Pekin Cross - Honey

Frizzle - Ugly....joke.......

Silkie - Pip

 

 

Got a bit scared as you are using my full first name But I have a middle name so HAH!

[Cooks]

@ hah!

 

loving the names, I will mop your tears no problems

[Space Chick]

I will mop up tears too, but I suspect I won't need to. You will find a way to make it work

[Cooks]

yes she can move to a house with bigger garden nearer me, that would work for me..

[Falkor]

yes she can move to a house with bigger garden nearer me, that would work for me..

 

Sounds like a plan Cookie! So if you could let me have this saturdays lottery numbers........

 

I think the noise is more to do with new surroundings so hopefully they will settle down in a day or so.

 

Or maybe I will just put Old Speckled Hen into their run. She is my resident enforcer and plays bouncer to Gin's Queen Chook role. And if that doesn`t work she could always sit on them and muffle the sound out!

[Cooks]

 

loving the idea of OSH muffling the sound out bless her cottons

[Falkor]

the little one in the blue t-shirt and shorts looks cute - Loving the foody names too,(clever with names Cookie is isnt she )

 

Yep, Cookie is like Yoda when it comes to naming chooks.....it must run in the family as it was her Dad that named Brandy and Saffy for me

 

And the little one in the blue T-shirt doesn`t lay eggs i am afraid....OH says she is a freeloader...eating him out of house and home.....

[Falkor]

Just got home from work to find my new ladies happily chuntering away in their dustbath.

 

AND...a little white egg in the run

 

the egg had been laid at the eglu end of the run but just out of reach via the egg port so I am off to get changed and do some crawling on my hands and knees in wet woodchip to retrieve it.

 

My four laying ladies are back on form too with three eggs a day for the last three days. I assume Old Speckled Hen is the one not laying as she is moulting

[Redwing]

ping it in to grabbing distance with a bamboo cane, thats what I do

[Cooks]

awwww who laid it??

[Falkor]

awwww who laid it??

 

Wellllll...i think it was Honey (buff pekin cross) as she crouches everyone....however I just had to catch an escapee............Treacle (black pekin cross) and she also crouched for me so I spose it could have been her.

 

All six of them were having a broody sit in not six days ago so I am pretty happy that I have an egg already even if I had to kneel in some un-mentionables to retirieve it!

 

 

Tasha, ur plan with the stick is a much better one. Will hunt out a stick to leave with their

[Cooks]

ooooooh you named them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Raina]

Congrats on your new chooks & egg

[chick wiggle]

I love the names too and I bet they're a lot happier now. No-one likes to be called 'Oi you'

Thats one of my names, one among many And for the egg

[Chook n Boo Mum]

ooooooh you named them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well how could she not name them when her full name was being bandied around............

 

Congratulations Em, a little white egg..I've forgotten what one of them looks like as none of my Orpies have laid sensibly for weeks.........not since Buffie went broody actually (about a dozen in nearly 8 weeks )...and now it looks like they've been having a pillow fight around the garden, maybe that's another reason...they are ready to moult, bless 'em.

 

We should save all their feathers & make a duvet Em!! How bald can I expect my lot to get, do they go over-ready or just patchy, what's OSH like?

 

Sha x

[Cooks]

ooooooh you named them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well how could she not name them when her full name was being bandied around............

well she doesn't HAVE to listen to me and it wasn't her full name really

[Falkor]

ooooooh you named them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well how could she not name them when her full name was being bandied around............

 

Congratulations Em, a little white egg..I've forgotten what one of them looks like as none of my Orpies have laid sensibly for weeks.........not since Buffie went broody actually (about a dozen in nearly 8 weeks )...and now it looks like they've been having a pillow fight around the garden, maybe that's another reason...they are ready to moult, bless 'em.

 

We should save all their feathers & make a duvet Em!! How bald can I expect my lot to get, do they go over-ready or just patchy, what's OSH like?

 

Sha x

 

OSH just looks less wide really She is still feathered and I can`t see any bare bits at the moment although if she carries on moulting like she is I reckon we could go into the feather duvet business let alone making just the one The garden is covered with brown downy feathers

 

Little Pip the silkie is moulting too i think but at least her feathers are confined to the eglu run for the moment and there should be considerably less than OSH as she is about an eighth of the size!