landgirl Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Introducing Lily, May and Jenny Hen. Temporarily Jenny is masquerading under a pseudonym until my parents arrive to stay in 10 days' time. Lily and May are named for my grandmothers (long departed) and Jenny Hen is named after my mother, but I don't want to tell her on email/telephone, but rather face-to-face, so at the moment Jenny is known as Prudence and is tagged as Pru on my Flickr gallery here. I've only had them 10 hours and I'm in love already! Jenny (the Warren) is a couple of weeks older than the other two so, I guess, likely to lay sooner. Time will tell. Lily took 2 minutes to establish her Top Hen position and is giving May what-for quite frequently. 'Pru'/Jenny is the jam in the middle who doesn't bully May at all and doesn't get many pecks from Lily. They've had a lovely afternoon foraging around, I've had a lovely afternoon watching them and, yes, you're all completely right, hens really DO love grapes and sweetcorn! Landgirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 beautiful chickens ! I love the fact they are all 3 different lovely colours. Thanks for posting the photo - we LOVE photos! Keep us posted on their chicken adventures please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Very pretty little girls, you must be really pleased! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Oh and I've just checked your gallery - lovely garden too! and fab grass! To be honest our chickens havent damaged our grass at all. We laid new turf about 2 months ago and apart from munching on it they havent scratched/damaged it at all - which is pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJB Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Hi Your girls are lovely. Beautiful garden. I want an Eglu!! The more I see them in peoples pics, the more I love them. Much better than the wooden hen house thing I have here! Oh hubby will kill me if he comes home and the garden is over run with Eglus! It has taken some persuading to keep the abandoned chickens, without spending his pennies on Eglu's! Hope you have as much fun with chickens as I am Cath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landgirl Posted May 30, 2007 Author Share Posted May 30, 2007 Thanks everyone! Oh and I've just checked your gallery - lovely garden too! and fab grass! Well, thank you!To be honest our chickens havent damaged our grass at all. We laid new turf about 2 months ago and apart from munching on it they havent scratched/damaged it at all - which is pretty good. OK, now I'm interested. Not to put too fine a point on it - what do you do with all the poo? L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 poo - it either dries up and we pick it up. Or I blast it with the hosepipe (im watering our new turfs anyway) or the dog eats it I would say our poo is evenly distributed around our garden - grass/decking/pebbles/paths, - but they do the best ones outside the back door where you dont always spot them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 They are lovely girls, and great names - really suit them! Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Lovely pics Tory, very pretty hens. You won't have any trouble telling them apart. Your garden is fab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanbb Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Wow Stunning girls Susan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisnrob Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 Lovely photos - I especially like the ones taken from a "Hen's eye view" Your garden is lovely - and immaculate! Where are the girls moving too - are you making a special area for them? Interested to see that you have your Grub and Glug on the end of the run - seems to be a popular place. Ours are still on the sides where the MFO (Man From Omlet) put them but the end looks a better place - at least they're level. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landgirl Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 Names: I think Lily and Jenny suit their names quite well, I'm a little unsure that May suits a black rock really, but this is more than made up for by how tender I feel towards May at the moment while Lily is doing her pecking-order thing! And May is my favourite month and my grandmother May was a very kind, gentle person, so it works for me! Lovely photos - I especially like the ones taken from a "Hen's eye view" Your garden is lovely - and immaculate! Where are the girls moving too - are you making a special area for them? Well thank you! I really like animal's eye view photos (I've got some great ones of my parents' dachshund from way down low!) I love my garden, it's a work in progress as I am a learner gardener (aren't we all). It has much room for improvement, but on the other hand, I'm the only gardener and this is the change in 4 summers: The fence at the bottom of my garden is being replaced by my neighbours, once that's done (today I think) I can fence off the barked section (and, I guess, remove the bark if there's a risk of mould?) at the far end for the girls to free range when I'm home. The only problem is that the eglu presumably needs to go in the free range section whereas I'd like it really close to the house for easy admiration-viewing!!!! I'm toying with the idea of far end of the garden in summer and the large triangle of earth (which I was waiting until I could afford to pave) for winter. I can foresee not wanting to tramp down the garden in the rain while the wind whistles in from the Peak District. Glug & Grub position: I put them on the end without much thought and didn't even think about the level thing, but it's a good point. They are easy to reach and I can pour fresh water into the glug without even opening the run door which is handy. ooh dear, long post, sorry, I'm chatty with the eggcitement of it all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom and Barbara Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 ooooh purdy purdy purdy...i love looking at people's pics! and it's SO not that I'm nosey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Nice pics landgirl- I love Amber Stars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Great pictures! They look like my three! Yes, you definitely need to save your garden there! A permanent area it has to be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landgirl Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 ooooh purdy purdy purdy...i love looking at people's pics! and it's SO not that I'm nosey LOL, I'm eggsactly the same, so don't worry!L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Wow lovely pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Amber stars are great for spotting in the eglu when it's dark brown one fade into the darkness Trinny (amber star) is head chicken too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Lovely pics of garden and hens. I love the fact that they are all different. Your garden is amazing - you have done really well. I could do with you here. Especially where the chickens have destroyed it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy C Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 What lovely hens. Great captions to Its amazing what you have done with the garden. How clever you are. (Fancy sorting mine out?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxy Loxy Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Your trio is the exact mix that I got myself yesterday, A black rock, a red warren and an amber star. It was like looking at a picture of my chickens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landgirl Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 oh, FoxyLoxy, we are hen twins! yay What colour's your eglu? thanks everybody for all the lovely comments. What a nice forum this is! Landgirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisnrob Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Was going to try to "animal eye view" photos today but that would've only been possible with an underwater camera I think! Has been persisting down here all day and Greta and Audrey were a little damp when we got in from work today. We've moved our Grub and Glug to the end and found that it's much easier to whip them out when they're in that position. That said, Greta decided to try an escape act tonight when the run door was open and had to be quickly shut back inside. I am mightly impressed with what you've managed in your garden in four summers - you can't even see the houses behind in your 'before' photo! We debated whether to move the Eglu about or go for a permanent area and decided that the latter was the better option, even though our garden is 140 feet long. Our Eglu is about half way down so will necessitate some moist tramping during winter months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 You definitely need a path to the egg port. I've worn a trench across the lawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landgirl Posted June 1, 2007 Author Share Posted June 1, 2007 chrisnrob: I love all your photos and your girls are beautiful. They look much less teenagerish than mine who are still working on their fashion sense You've been VERY clever to grow a tree just off centre of your barked area so the run fits past it - now that took some planning ! Reducing the jungle: inevitably, I wish I still couldn't see the houses beyond the fence, but it would have been too claustrophobic and the main screening tree I took out was a very unhealthy 30ft damson. It's had its revenge though as, all last summer, one of its long roots sent suckers up through my lawn, even though the mother tree and stump were 2 months gone, so 10/10 for survival tactics. I've had to be very careful to keep the hens in while grub/glug are put back in the run in the morning and now they are aware that I am small tree bearing treats they are pecking at my fingers a bit, even when there's no food. So far the pecks don't hurt - long may that continue. My sister-in-law and niece brought their collie, Kep (or, as the hens like to call him, small shrub walking) to visit last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
