Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[marky mark]

Thanks for all your help the other week with regards to the bylaws. We had one objection from a neighbour who didn't want us parking our chickens near the house incase they attracted the vermin so they are now halfway down the garden - right next door to the greenhouse!

 

Anyway - we picked up 3 lovely hens on Saturday from the domestic fowl trust in Evesham and I can't recommend the place highly enough - they were very very helpful!

 

We got 1 Isa Brown (called Rosie) and 2 Bluebelles (called Daisy and Lily) - my 8 year old neice named them. They are 13 weeks old so we won't be getting any eggs for a while, I guess the earliest will be when they are 16 weeks old - is that right? They have a little house and settled right in, we have had some very minor fighting but they appear to be quite happily living together! My husband wants them to run free range round the garden during the day but I would feel safer if they were in a large run - firstly because our house backs onto woodland and I'm scared my babies will make a hungry fox a happy fox, and also I don't want the hens destroying my veg patch! So, I think its run building this weekend for us!

 

Thanks again, Sarah x

[marky mark]

This is Lily

 

 

And this is the backsides of Rosie and Daisy - they were a bit camera shy!

 

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[Mrs Frugal]

They're lovely girls! Congratulations .

[Richard]

they look really lovely - well done

[Lynn in Bristol]

They're gorgeous!

 

I love the Domestic Fowl Trust but after last time (chickens for sale + no willpower) I'm never allowed back there!

[Snowy]

Lovely chooks! I'm sure you will enjoy them!

[Egluntyne]

Congratulations. What lovely pictures.

[Kathy C]

Congratulations. What lovely girls.

[smudgley]

COngratulations.

We went to the DFT on Sunday. Had a look at the chooks for sale & thought we might get a white star & a Bluebell. So we went round the pens & viewed all the stock etc, then when we came back to the shop bit - they'd all been sold!

 

My hubby was chatting to the lady & she said the ISA browns they had in this week went like hot cakes.

 

they look lovely.

[marky mark]

The lady we spoke to said they had been selling well! We got the last Isa Brown on the Saturday but there were 2 bluebelles left, right next to the adorable baby goat!

 

I'd love to go back this week and get some more - this chook buying business is addictive!

[Guest]

 

Lovely girls!

 

Bluebelles are my favourite breed of chicken - you should have many happy years of watching beautiful, buxom girls pottering about in your garden!

[Guest]

They are lovely girls

[marky mark]

Thanks! I'm proud of my new babies! And buxom is such a good word to describe my blue belles!

[chrisnrob]

What lovely girls!

 

We drove past the DFT on Sunday (in fact, if we'd gone in we could've met up with Smudgley!) but unfortunately couldn't stop as we were with friends.

 

We've marked it down for a future visit though

 

Rob

[smudgley]

Oh yeah, that little teeny weeny goat. (we couldn't quite work out if it was a goat or a lamb at first it was soooo tiny)

 

The birds we saw in there were lovely & reasonably priced too.

[Eggheads]

Oooh, love the Bluebelles - really makes me want to get one too but I think that I'll stick to the plan of getting an ex-battery hen instead once our existing two have settled in and we've got a bit more experience.

 

Great choices anyhow