How high can a chicken jump?

[Guest]

Hi I have just brought a hen on each and would like to know your views towards them

And anything else about them

Thanks

[the-real-tinkerbell]

ive hatched appenzellers they are 3 weeks old and still in the kitchen ,all i can say is thier mad as a box of frogs lol

when ever im changing food and water i end up chasing them round the room . but they are beautifull ,the kids call them cow birds

[Guest]

Haha i know the appenzeller here is mental. She is small so squeezed through a gap in the WIR and decided the roof of the garage was nice to sit on. Got her down

[dixie chick]

I have a lavender Araucana and she is lovely and friendly. Quite dominant with the other birds but also popular. I love the way she looks at you - somehow her eye is less beady and chickeny than the others. She also does not lie down like a chicken - but lies down on her side, stretched out like a labrador! A real character - and the blue eggs are just a bonus!

[Mollie333]

Congratulations.

[Space Chick]

Oooooh, I have an Appenzeller and shes mad as a hatter, but very cute.

 

Congratulations on your new hens.

 

Now, you know the rules.... We need pictures

[Guest]

Thank you and pictures will come once their in with my big girls

[sparkysmum]

Hi, I have an auracana too & love her to bits. She's very elgant, extremely pretty ,friendly but def. not cuddly . However she's ever so broody At least 4/5 times this summer. Was also a flier and took to roosting in the trees at night. Seems to have outgrown this now. Perhaps it was toddlerhood

 

Enjoy. Alli xx

[Guest]

NOT ANOTHER BROODY I will now have like 7-9 hens that go broody

[sparkysmum]

Yes, I was surprised as I had never heard of araucanas being particulary prone to broodiness. They are known to be great mums though so if you're tempted.................

[daxigirl]

Good choices, my araucana is so soft feathered and quite inquisitive. The little app zell is more reserved and is last in the pecking order, however the app zell x silkie is the boss, her hat feathers go the other way though and aren't as impressive. The araucana is growing rather a fetching beard thing too. Yes they really can get some height on their flights, had no choice but to do some wing clipping, shame.

[Guest]

No chicks! At all I don't want any and they are in a mahoooosive WIR.

[Jules.]

I've had my araucanas a week now, & they're crazy, especially Molly the lavender one