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[Chooksrus]

Hi all,

 

First post to introduce ourselves and say hello. Planned on getting chickens next spring but after being given a 'cube' and picking up 4 ex-batts a week ago, we are up and running quicker than we thought! So, 'we' are Me, the Wife and 2 kids aged 4, 1 dog and now 4 ladies - Cookie, Clucky, Crumble and Hogarth. So far, 1 week on, 6 eggs in total- 3 edible. No problems encountered as such yet and they are all finding their feet and seem to settling in well. For the last couple of nights, 1, then another, and tonight all 4 were settled to sleep in the nesting box Pecking order established and the biggest, loveliest of the birds is the on the bottom rung. The Kids love them and the Wife even more so. They are much more endearing and intriguing than we ever thought they would be with their lovely noises and scratching around. I'm having a good look a round different topics and I'll be posting lots of questions soon, so until then, bye-bye.

[jam]

Heya Glad you like your new hens. Welcome to the forum.

[Chucky1]

Welcome to the forum Chooksrus.

 

Enjoy your new girls

 

Good luck

[CatieB]

Hello and welcome but more importantly I want to know how do you get "given a cube" ?

 

I want that kind of luck

[chick wiggle]

Hi Chookrus and welcome to the forum.

Chickens are so addictive arnt they? Any questions just shout, theres always someone on here to give a quick reply.

We do like pictures too

[Purplemaniacs]

Welcome to the forum.

 

Given a cube, how lucky

 

Glad to hear that your new girls are settling in.

 

Chrissie

[Goldstar]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

 

How lucky to be given a cube.

 

Glad the girls are settling in well and giving you eggs already.

[Bramble]

Hello and welcome!!! I need friends like you have if they give you things like Cubes, you lucky things!!![*]

[ISCA]

Welcome! Glad they have all settled in so well. Fairly new to chickens myself but I have found they are fantastic to have in the garden- they bring it alive somehow. The forum is a great place for information and the forum posters a friendly, knowledgable bunch of folk, so keep popping in!

 

Good luck with them and enjoy the eggs

[frizz]

Hi, I am new to chickens and the forum too, your family sounds just like mine, the chooks are soooo addictive, we all gain pleasure from watching them in the garden.

 

Good luck and happing chooking.

[coco]

Hello and Welcome. you'll find answere to all your questions on here, lucky you being given a cube.

[Chooksrus]

Thanks everyone for the welcome!

 

Yes, very lucky to be given a cube. I have got an old dismantled shed which I had planned to build a coop from but that was going to take some time as we have other priorities. My Wife used to work in a school which attempted to keep chickens until they were all killed by a fox before they even received the cube (Kept in a rabbit hutch). They instead kept 6 rabbits in it instead but it has sat empty for a year until the Headteacher offered it to us! Not quite free as we'll be making a donation to the school but still a real result!

 

I'm so glad we've taken the plunge though. I like them racing out of the cube in the mornings and already being in ready for bed when I go and lock them in. Today, I Iclosed the door for a little while to stop one of them hiding in the coop so that she would stay out and get some food.I came out a little later to find another at the top of the steps , waiting, making clucking noises, asking for the door to be opened so she could get to bed! They are characters that's for sure.

 

Best of all though - another egg waiting for us this evening!