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[clucky chicken]

:lol: Just love these comments - I have learnt that:

 

No matter what you know about chooks there is always more to know, and no matter what mood you're in when you come home from work - one trip down the garden to see the chooks is enough to make you very very happy! I love my chooks - but do they love me or the mealworm pot???

 

I have also learnt that keeping chickens is one of the best occupations in the world!

[Kirstine]

I'm still at "brassica massacre" - we've had several of those. Sometimes we even uncover the veg on purpose and the chickens have an all you can eat salad bar for a while.

 

Most of what I've learned has been covered but here's a few more:

 

Every fence has a chicken-sized hole in it somewhere (often invisible to the human eye)

Layers pellets are not very interesting to eat (DH didn't believe the chickens so he tried one)

A chicken will do almost anything for cheese

Chickens are generally cleverer than you'd think, but you can confuse one mightily by letting it in the back of the chicken house then closing it up, even if the pophole is open

[Tutti Frutti]

'brassica massacre'

 

:lol:

 

More from me (sorry!).

 

I have learned that really fresh eggs are REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WARM!!!

 

And if I want clean eggs, to clean the nest box first thing in the morning

 

And that eggs and chickens come in colours other than light brown

 

And that loved chickens don't smell - it's just their poo (and freshly rescued ex-barnies!)

 

And that loved chickens are ace guilt-trippers

 

And how excited my family are about the girls - chickeny things keep coming in the post, from rubber eggs to Chicken Poo Lip Salve

 

And finally, that "THE" Chicken Pox is incredibly infectious, takes hold very quickly after first exposure, is irreversible with no known cure and that chicken maths is a serious complication - yep, new girls (hopefully ) due end of April

[grracee]

* It is amazing just how much devastation one small chicken can do when she gets into the shed

 

Totally agree with that one!

 

I've also learnt from keeping chickens never to leave the back door open or else they will follow you in the house and poo everywhere!

[chickiepiggies]

I have really loved reading this thread and i have to agree with everyone, they make me smile everyday even when its just that little peek i get when returning home from work and i give them their daily check they still say hello

 

love my fluffy chooks

[JB09]

What a brilliant thread

 

Apart from all the things you guys have mentioned, reading this I have realised how much I love my chickens and would never be without them. Is that sad?

[emchook]

I have learnt that :

I can justify ALL expenses for chickens to the OH without a pause for thought

Chickens are expensive to look after

Chickens can leave a nasty bruise from pecking

Chickens can have tiny children screaming in terror as they chase them up the garden following a treat pot

Children do not realise they need to drop the treat pot sooner !

Children will dig for worms for hours to feed them to chickens

Children LOVE herding escapee chickens back to where they should be

I do not resent freezing, rainy weather at morning stupid oclock to watch them rugby tackle each other out of the eglu

Chickens bok bok bokking around my feet make me really really HAPPY !

[Chicken Shirl]

Goodness me no! it is not sad, it is amazingly wonderful to love your chooks.

 

I have learned that I cannot be away from them for more than a few hours. (thank goodness I don't go to work anymore) My daughters are quite miffed that I left them with childminders, but would I leave the hens. Not on your life.

 

I have learned that I cannot leave them with anyone other than my DH.

 

I have learned to duck into the garage and out through the utility room so as not to be mobbed before I can get the food out for them. They take a bit of time to work out where I am.

 

I have learned never to pick up a graden fork or spade in their presence. which limits ones work somewhat Still, I just sit with them and chat for a while.

 

Love them! I adore the little critters.

[whoopsie]

I'm so glad I started this - it's a great thread and I agree with absolutely every sentiment. I can't wait till summer when I can sit out there with them for hours - it's too damn cold at the moment!

 

I'm away for a few days now and my neighbour is looking after them. Worried? You bet I am!!!

[Chicken Shirl]

I'm so glad I started this - it's a great thread and I agree with absolutely every sentiment. I can't wait till summer when I can sit out there with them for hours - it's too damn cold at the moment!

 

I'm away for a few days now and my neighbour is looking after them. Worried? You bet I am!!!

 

OMG! you will have to chicken in every few hours. Have a great time.

[Cranfield Kate]

I'm loving this! laughed out loud loads! I've learnt:

 

that it's more important to let the girls out than have a lie in (you can always go back to bed after)

 

that there is NOTHING funnier than a chicken running up the garden

 

that if someone else in the house has been letting them out and putting them to bed for a couple of days that I miss them and that that person suddenly becomes as addicted as i am

 

that even a patch of south east london can be a little bit of the countryside

 

that every chicken is a different personality, just like any animal, including us

 

that battery farming is disgusting and that people are too removed from where their food comes from these days

 

that i can cry over a sick chicken and wail when it dies

 

that none of my friends "get it"

 

that I want more!

 

that if it wasn't for you guys and your support and advice I would not have been able to do this.

 

[Chicken Shirl]

Cranfield Kate. That was a lovely lovely post. Thank you.

 

I love my hens more and more every day, and this forum has transformed my life. I thought it was OK before omlet forums ,but it just gets better.

[Lydia]

Things I have learnt:

 

* that folk are surprisingly niaive about how an egg comes out of a chicken and are more shocked to learn that poo comes out of the same hole

 

* that when friends you have not spoken to for a while get in touch, the first thing they ask is not "how are you?" anymore it's "how's the chickens?".

 

* how very difficult it really is to keep battery egg out of your diet as it's in everything.

[Chucky1]

Great idea for a thread.

 

One of the lovely girls has just reminded me of another.

 

That when I'm chopping wood a chicken has far more confidence in my abilities with an axe than I do myself. Just now she got so close to the block of wood I just had to give it up as a bad job.

DW won't come within 50 feet

[Tutti Frutti]

A special thing I have learned today, having WATCHED Ursula lay her egg!

 

That it's bad enough for us ladies to produce an egg every month, let alone one almost every flipping day

 

That I'm grateful that **I'm** not sent "out to pasture" when I'm past my peak egg producing years

 

And that I got all emotional when I watched Ursula today, not only at the excrutiating thought of giving birth to something bigger than your head almost EVERY day without a break but also with pride and happiness. I melted when I watched her tap it twice with her beak to put it in position - the she saw me and came bounding out, pleased as punch

 

All those eggs in the supermarket - all so special, all so under-appreciated

[Tutti Frutti]

And that chickens don't wee

[coco]

I have learnt

that chickens are very addictive and lovable.

That chickens can terrify most cats.

That i will never have a lie in again.

That chickens take up a ot more of your time than you thought they would but you will happily spend it with them.

Chickens can get you talking to people you never though you would [snotty man at work who I didn't know kept chickens and we now chat daily]

 

That nest boxes are really for pooing in.

That all eggs must be laid on the house floor then rolled around in poo till they are covered.

That nice new bedding in the house must be instantly dragged into the run and spread round the run.

That I can worry myself silly over a poorly chook.

That they are NOT just chickens.

[emchook]

Tuuti Frutti: And that I got all emotional when I watched Ursula today, not only at the excrutiating thought of giving birth to something bigger than your head almost EVERY day without a break but also with pride and happiness. I melted when I watched her tap it twice with her beak to put it in position - the she saw me and came bounding out, pleased as punch

 

All those eggs in the supermarket - all so special, all so under-appreciated

 

Oh I never thought of it that way . I just got quite emotional myself

[Cranfield Kate]

oh my god that's so true. Every time I see something like 24 eggs for a £1 in poundstretcher I want to cry. SO underappreciated.

 

Chickens for a £1 in tesco make me cry and I got all emotional in Asda at a whole fish for a £1. A whole being worth £1.

 

okay, I digress, sorry.... back to the lovely comments...

[Space Chick]

oh my god that's so true. Every time I see something like 24 eggs for a £1 in poundstretcher I want to cry. SO underappreciated.

 

Chickens for a £1 in tesco make me cry and I got all emotional in Asda at a whole fish for a £1. A whole being worth £1.

 

okay, I digress, sorry.... back to the lovely comments...

 

I agree completely, well said CK

 

I think it is obscene the price that is put on a life, and people look at me like I'm crazy because I have paid £10 or more for a free range or organic chicken when they have celebrated buying 2 chickens for a £5. My MIL is one of the worst offenders on this, so OH and I refuse to eat at her house

[Chucky1]

Me too, well said Tutti, SC and CK.

 

The things those poor chucks must endure to produce a dozen eggs for less than £1 - would soone go without .

[docsquid]

- Pigeons and crows are terrifying

 

Actually, mine form a little flock with a woodpigeon and a collared dove some days, picking for food under the trees. They don't seem to mind pigeons, but they don't like crows.

 

And I agree - a chicken running up the garden is the funniest thing ever!

[Chucky1]

- Pigeons and crows are terrifying

 

Actually, mine form a little flock with a woodpigeon and a collared dove some days, picking for food under the trees. They don't seem to mind pigeons, but they don't like crows.

 

And I agree - a chicken running up the garden is the funniest thing ever!

 

 

Funny but when crows go around the feeder our gals chase them off - pigeons never get a look in

 

And yes a chicken running up the garden is the funniest.

 

Another thing is that I can feel myself getting a bit annoyed when people say that chickens are stupid

[Valkyrie]

I've learnt that it is my fault when it snows - they glare at me.

 

I've learnt that Kittykittykitty is hen talk for hanky panky - check with Space Chick - the hussy (not Debs of course) curtseys on demand.

 

I've also learnt to sneak a peek to see if they are by the back door when I need to go into the utility, and when the greenhouse door is shut and they want to go in there.

 

Scaley leg mites are persistent nuisances and I have every cure under the sun.

 

Chickens are a money pit.

 

One cube and eglu is not enough.

 

How slippery poo can be when you are carrying a multitude of feeders - and how to retain my balance on steps to the bottom of the garden when one eager madam gets under your feet (again with a multitude of dishes).

 

My eyesight is getting so bad I need specs to do poo picking.

[Space Chick]

 

I've learnt that Kittykittykitty is hen talk for hanky panky - check with Space Chick - the hussy (not Debs of course) curtseys on demand.

 

 

'Tis true

 

I have learned that I am not the only one who imitates chickens, and copies what they "say" back to them. There was a marvellous moment in Koojies garden where we both copied one of her girls in unison, and then fell about laughing