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[memphisto]

Just wondering after meeting the lovely Sammiboo last week who had travelled quite a way to get her Silkies, how far have you travelled to get your chickens? Just wondering how many miles we've clocked up between us all?!

 

I'll start with my as they are all from various places:

 

Bubbles, Penny, Dilys, Maisy, Willow- 8 mile round trip (x2)

Ruby & Lottie- 86 mile round trip

Phoebe & Tilly- 86 mile round trip

Lola & Livvy- Breeder brought to me, met nearby- 4 mile round trip

Edie- 86 mile round trip

Saffron & Savannah- 132 mile round trip

Tabitha-12 mile round trip

Isla- 98 mile round trip (with Tabs in the back!)

Angel, Baby, Holly, Star 106 mile round trip

Lily & Sophie (looking after for someone, unsure for how long) 24 mile round trip

 

Total Chicken Mileage= 650 miles

 

So along the lines of the total chicken counter....add your mileage to the post above and see how far we've travelled!

[Redwing]

I cant even begin to count it up but some I remember are

 

Middlesborough - 380 mile round trip

Dover - 320 mile round trip

Hastings - 300 mile round trip

Truro - 550 mile round trip

Oswestry - 230 mile round trip, I've done this at least 4 times so 920 miles in all

Blackburn - 320 mile round trip

Bradford - 280 mile round trip

Harrogate - 300 mile round trip

 

so thats 3370 miles plus I reckon there is a good bit to add to that that I cant remember

[House MD 221B]

That's some amazing figures, ours is a little different as We lived in Coalville, Leicestershire, when Sally got her first 2 from Omlet (delivered) so not sure where they came from, but when we moved house to the Isle of Wight, our 4 girls made the 3 hour car journey and 1 hour ferry crossing without so much as a bwark! We were so proud of them

 

but I should imagine

 

Coalville - IOW = 200 Miles

and oxford - coalville = 40 miles?

 

so 240 Miles ish

 

making it 3,610

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Wow .

 

I've made 3 trips to the same farm, about 20 miles away. so total 120 miles .

[Mrs Webmuppet]

The grand sum of ............130 miles made up of

 

2 trips to Thorndon = 88 miles

1 trip to Ardleigh =42 miles

[pips_pekins]

My chicken mileage is not too bad, but then I only have 4 chickens!

 

3 round trips as follows:-

 

180 miles to collect two bantams + 25 miles to collect bantam wyandotte + 40 miles for frizzle pekin = 245 miles

[Sammiboo]

ooo interesting thread

 

My first two girls (Bunty and Mabel) market drayton (80 mile round trip)

Then went back to the same place to get ethel and phyllis (80 mile round trip)

Glady and Dorothy (amoungst a boot full) came from FR chicken farm closing in silverstone (250 mile round trip)

myrtle and agness ex batts from Haslingden (180 mile round trip)

Silkies from peterborough (306 mile round trip)

Total: 896 miles

[chookingham]

1st 2 girls delivered, so no mileage. Next 3 girls round trip of 50 metres - my neighbour used to raise hybrids. 3 orps from Power Poutry in Norfolk, so about 120 mile round trip, and the latest 3 from Jessie's Hens in Cambridge, another 20 mile round trip. So 140 miles and 50 metres (should I have used yards with miles - oh well ).

[coco]

Two lots of girls were local about 14 mile round trip x 2

Three pekins 15 miles x 2

Another 3 pekins 40 x 2

Nankin 110 miles

Belgian bantams 14 miles x 2

Wyandotte bantam 3 miles

Gold laced orpington bantam 70 miles

Three more local girls 2 miles

Araucanas 8 miles

silkies 10 miles

so in total 369 miles

 

oops, I forgot my light sussex and Welsummer thats another 60 miles so 429 in total

[Olly]

A great idea

 

first two - Omlet delivery = 0 miles by me, presumably the van was making other deliveries

adopted three; 26 mile round trip, had to do it twice as the owner came with me and I took him home, so 54 miles

one adopted: delivered, so 0 miles again, although I could guess at a 10 mile round trip for the owner: 20 miles

bought three: 30 miles away = 60 miles

two hatched in school incubator, and delivered by friend who kindly raised them to POL for me: 26 miles

 

Total: 160 miles

[Space Chick]

Ok, I'm a bit like Tasha... Doubt I can remember them all!!

 

1st girls - Powys 100 mile round trip

2nd girls - Wernlas - 220 mile round trip

3rd girls - llantrisant - 70 mile round trip

4th girls - Powys 100 mile round trip

5th girls - reading, then Northampton 360 mile round trip

6th girls - Malvern - 160 mile round trip

7th girls - Coventry - 300 mile round trip

8th girls - Neath - 4 mile round trip

9th girls - hatching eggs - Glynneath - 20 mile round trip

10th girls - hatching eggs - Bristol to Malvern - 220 mile round trip

11th girls - Malvern - 160 mile round trip

12th girls - Northampton - 320 mile round trip

13th girls - Cardiff East - 90 mile round trip

14th girls - Wernlas - 220 mile round trip

 

I think that's everyone

 

So that's 2344 miles

[memphisto]

Grand Total so far: 8595 miles!

[percy049]

Flordon (Little Hen Rescue), Norfolk - Ruby, Violet and Bessie - 64 miles round trip

Fritton, Norfolk - Binnie and Laura - 14 miles round trip

Weybread, Norfolk - Lottie and Lillie - 54 miles round trip

We also went 34 miles extra on the last trip to look somewhere, but didn't buy anyone, she I'll leave that out.

Total - 132 miles

 

Grand total - 8727 miles. Thats a lotta petrol money.

[Luvachicken]

My first 2 came straight from Omlet so no miles there.

The 4 lovely girls I have now came from just outside Milton Keynes which was 77 miles from Fleet. So 154 miles altogether

[Lewis]

I can't really remember everyone but...

Trio of d'Anvers = 8miles

+ add Babs = 8 miles

4 hybrids Cotswold Chickens = 120 miles

Rehomed from Nuneaton = 40 miles

Cilla, Alice, Mabel + Audrey from Northampton = 100 miles ... X3 trips (at least! )

Seymour from Tamworth = 14 miles

National Show = 50 miles

Cotswold Chickens for green layer = 120 miles

= 660 miles

 

But if you add miles to Chickeny work = another 10,000 miles over Summer

and another 320 every week since September

Can't even think of the all the shows and other bits!

[jackian]

Mine are all omlet girls and I suppose 20 miles at the most .. Of course the lovely Omlet guy had to go back again.

 

But knowing what I know now ,that I did not know about Chickens then ..I would have gone 200 miles at least for them myself and more

[Alis girls]

Silly me I thought this was a thread re how fast they can move - when I want to catch them I'd say 10mph and they zig zag to confuse me

[Space Chick]

Silly me I thought this was a thread re how fast they can move - when I want to catch them I'd say 10mph and they zig zag to confuse me

 

Brilliant

[fluffy chick]

 

All the chickens I've had (17 in total) either came to me to be rehomed (0 miles for me) or from 1 of 2 breeders just down the road. So maybe er 20 miles, at a push

[surfer_chicken]

36 mile round trip +

20 mile round trip +

2x 36 mile round trip

 

= 128 miles

I didn't think it would be that much as all our journeys have been less than 30 mins each way!

 

Though 128 miles/10 chickens = 12.8 miles per chicken which makes me feel a bit better