gavclojak Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Just my pride. I swear I slid about eight foot and left a great long skid mark.....completely covered in mud and not a pretty sight at half seven in the morning!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 Hello all is well up here in chooksville but I can so sympathise re the mud situation. I will take a pic tomorrow of what was my nice grassy back garden (where all the chook houses were) and then you can all decide if mine is worse than yours!! One thing that didn't help was that I discovered a blocked drain across the road and I was having all the surface water gushing down my drive for months unknown to me. Once discovered I had the council out at 9pm the Friday before Christmas digging a trench across my drive and laying sandbags. Blockage has been temp repaired until after the hols and to think I was blaming the poor chooks for my sea of mud. Will be a headache and huge expense to repair in spring. Probably have to erect netting to keep the chooks off it until drainage and reseeding can be done. Yep this darned iPad spells only americanisms!! Still love it tho! Roll on spring.....again! On the plus side I am still getting around 17 eggs a day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 17 eggs a day I'm just getting one a day out of my 9 chooks - well, OK one is a cockerel but the others have black marks The one who is laying is a little gold frizzle. Good little girly Here she is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Oh she's beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 17 eggs a day I'm just getting one a day out of my 9 chooks - well, OK one is a cockerel but the others have black marks The one who is laying is a little gold frizzle. Good little girly 17 eggs, I have 14 chooks and no eggs, I have been buying eggs for the last month or so. Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I have 12 cooks and get between 3 and 4 a day. Think I'm very lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 Just to make you jealous now up to nineteen eggs daily.........but remember a lot of mine are Hybrids in their first winter. This next winter will be different.......depending on flock size, type of course! Now I have discovered the posh birds who knows....(my fav is still my little brown hen Katag with a wonky toe and white dot on her side) That little chook is so cute!....she'd end up being a house chicken here!! Have to get on the desktop comp soon to show my mud pic! Am so glad we are not in America or Canada as my chooks would be in my utility room, no question. Feel for all the chicken/livestock keepers. Had to laugh yesterday as I facebooked a client the night before to remind her of her appt as per request and she noticed I had added to my page a pic of a chicken with knitted bonnet that someone had posted. Bit of banter and jokingly said to her maybe your mum will make me some.......fast fwd to next morning and she brought in two totty wee knitted bonnets her mum had thrown together on her needles that very morning!! So cute and now have orders to take a pic of chook modelling one!!...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Omg be careful what you say redsunset. I'm normally baron of eggs this time of year, but the exbats are laying, one Pullet,one Daisybelle, even one omlet in her second year. Not to mention the little girls. My white silkle is laying every other day and my lavender frizzle lays sometimes. Fifi is 2 and a half now. She just lays when she's not broody. No rules with her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 From my 4 lovely ladies I am getting anything from 1 to 4 eggs a day but are averaging 2. I hoped they would give their little bodies a rest over the winter but I guess as hybrid ex commercial girls that was never going to happen. Redsunset if I were you I would be out in the garden sky watching this evening. I have read you will be able to see the amazing aurora borealis tonight!! I went all the way to Iceland to see it but didn't see so much as a glimmer:(( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Can we change the name of this subject to the more and more hens disease. I have just gone out and picked up 2 lavender arauncana ladies. What was I thinking of? once again all the girls have been swapped around. Why have I done this is there a cure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 No cure in the fist year, even less in the second and complete collapse in the third but how lovely to have two lavender arauncana ladies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Oh dear this is my third year. I am completely out of control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandmashazzie Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Sound lovely.I have lost 2 ex batts and am trying to resist resist resist getting new chicks and you are not helping I am so envious New chicks and new puppy,lucky thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Morehens is out there.....it's airborne....gone viral....it's terminal with no hope of a cure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 I am delighted to see you have all gone 'clucking' mad..a cure has yet to be discovered. Most would refrain from admitting they were in trouble and had a problem anyway....... Now....have pics of the Lavender ladies been posted yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Not yet. Will try tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Not a very good picture. Light is bad. Their couloir is actually nicer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoachedPlease Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Auracana, how fantastic. I always think of them as the queen of chickens, and they are next on the list. But anymore than 5 chickens just makes me fear for the poop levels in the garden. I have 5 hybrids and i am getting 4 eggs a day. 2 of the layers are in their second year, I am assuming they are happy with their set up, but I still thank them in the mornings when I egg collect! Xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I now have 14 chickens. They don't all free range at the same time. Chickens do most of their pooping whilst they are roosting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 The Lavender ladies are beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Fabulous girls Sonyascott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Can't think of any good names for them. Poachedplease you said you think of them as the queen of chickens. Do you think their names should be something regal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice....dunno why but??.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 How about Lizzy and Mary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Got a friend called lizzy. Quite like Mary and Beatrice. What do you think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
