mullethunter Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Brilliant news about your insurance - I'm really pleased for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Thank you peeps, it was pretty darn stressful and I hope none of you go through that with your insurance needlessly. Aplologies if any of you are married to or are assessors but right now am mad (as that could have been an old person on their own or vulnerable person) so not my fav people right now! Hope to get someone out in next day or so to finally replace felt ripped of new shed in storm as it's nice and dry for next couple of days? Straw inside getting soggy in the middle so want it cleared out on the weekend as not good for poor Mr Brahma and the girls who pop in for a ceilidh (visit)/and lay their eggs. . Removed all the eggs and sadly binned them from the flowerpot urn today and put it back upright. Need to search the garden as six odd eggs from over 25 laying chooks......hmm. I walked past that darned urn every day and never even noticed them! People out walking their dogs must surely notice the doodles dotted around the branches of the Ash tree but no one has reported me for neglect yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 My dogs would have noticed any stray eggs, not chooks. They are great egg collectors and have on many occasions collected them before me, or fro me! They would not bat an eye at a chicken though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 And chickabee, do they deliver them to you intact? If so,I AM impressed! I know fine well I have an egg eater (a wee speckledy) but I turn a blind eye to her wrong doings as she does her best to hoover up any evidence but invariably a little yolk tells a story..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 My dogs? They eat every egg they find. Even when they are in a container and i turn my back whilst I'm collecting them the chooks eat the occasional egg, but no serial egg eaters yet. Fingers crossed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Ha! I guessed you were gonna say that, lol! Guess it's a get there before the hounds do! Saw my little bichon carrying an egg off once but didn't know quite what to do with it! Now my hounds and chooks have separate ends so easy to know who the perpetrator is as in miss speckledy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 I have an egg eater! Betty boo...she cannibalises her own but leaves the others alone. She is an old timer now so rarely lays! I didn't realise as she eats everything but her yellow beak and satisfied expression gave it away!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Glad the insurance turned up trumps in the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Thank you luvackicken. Lovely day here but surfaced late as have horrible chesty cold. Found Mr Brahma pottering outside the shed but only in shed vicinity, didn't stray far and his walking looked ok. Few hours later he was back in the shed by himself so I think it's fair to say he is now scared of Samson who has taken over the flock? As he gets company in the girls popping in to lay an egg in the corner (where he stands over them in protection mode) I'm not to worried for now. As days get longer and weather improves, I will open both shed doors to get him outside. Sad to see him as underdog now as he is such a majestic looking guy. The garden looks terrible in the chook section as almost all the grass stripped (yes I DO have far to many) so finally have to admit that bit spent the afternoon picking up trash blown in from last months storm and washing down the drive with hose. I even thought about parting with half of them......but know fine well it won't happen! What I do have to do is prevent any more being hatched so need to be vigilant this spring summer but also know how wily chooks can get in hiding that one! Hmmm..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I've got morehens REALLY bad. A work colleague is about to embark on chicken keeping and has been asking for advice on all sorts of things and now I have a massive list of different types that I want! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I love it when people get struck by it. Makes me feel a tiny bit more sane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Aw sheesh, you guys aren't helping! You were supposed to tell me yes, you have far to many chooks and no wonder you have no grass, drains being clogged up and mud everywhere lol! I'll let youse off as girls are producing a doz and a half a day and Mr Brahma venturing outside now, but keeping well away from the new boss. Chicken auctions next month and will not peruse catalogue and give friends ANY orders, repeat last statement.............. ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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redsunset Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Got shed roof fixed tonight, new felt and guy put extra battens/tensioned wire on the lot! So now should survive any severe gales I hope. Had a peep in the window expecting to see Mr Brahma on his todd.....no sign! Delighted to find him in a coop with a pile of ladies all around him Two beach huts in use, one empty, new shed.......empty, trees full of the doodles and two speckledys in the willows! If this carries on Might move lawn mower and my own tools into the shed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimnpaula Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Glad to hear Mr Brahma seems to be on the mend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Thank you jimmpaula, I was delighted to see the big guy out. No doubt there will now be a battle to ensue between himself and Samson the SLW to see who gets the crown as top cockerel...... He might not fight it, but part of me hopes he regains his title due to his sheer size and looks. I know both of them are big blouses underneath it all but still....... The little black mum chook was caught today laying her eggs under an old broken pallet by the roadside by sheer fluke. She was the one who also laid in my terracotta urn last week! Slipping out through the gates to do it (same as she hatched chicks last year near the roadside) so extra vigilance re her carry on needed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Another 5 chooks appeared in my garden today, so 3 white Sussex, and two Rhode Rocks hybrids now brings my total up to 15! That's my max now!! Honest..... [/quote Do you remember saying this back in 2013.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Downside of having a wee blog going on here......,,I get off with nothing as you lot have very long memories!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think you should get more. You have that beautiful shed now that no-one is using so it's only right that you get some new girls to fill it up Sorry - but I can't get any at the moment and I want someone to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Very funny Mullethunter, do you not think I have enough?? Still deciding re new shed tho Mr Brahma was back in it today and five girls are laying their eggs in it while the Brahma stands over them? Wet and wild today, chooks not amused but noticed no doodles in the tree tonight so off to a coop they went? Catalogue of forthcoming rare and minority breeds not yet online......not that I'm checking I add...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 Nothing exciting happening in Hebridean chooksville apart from no doodles in the Ash tree now for almost a week? Am delighted they have finally gone off to a coop but when weather improves it will be interesting to see if back to the tree they go? Keep telling myself I need NO more chickens, but know a sale is coming up soon of rare and minority breeds and Mullethunter says I should get some. ........ I really do have enough at 39, but I would love an orp or a Vorwerk, maybe a favorelle or....lavenvelder, Scots dumpy.......or....... .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I was wondering where you'd got to Redsunset. Vorwerks, Lakenvelder and Scots Dumpy are all on my list too. Along with Cream Legbar, Maran, Croad Langshan and Barnevelder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I'd forgotten re the cream legbar, and copper Marans, etc! Did have a beautiful double laced Barnevelder who very sadly died on me a few months after getting her. I got her as a solo chicken and she remained solo amongst the flock so I vowed never a solo intro again. The others blanked her, and I used to feel so sorry for her pottering on her own. From now on always in pairs or more as chooks can be so cruel to newbies . ....I don't need any more chooks tho.........as such... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 That's well timed because I was wondering about introducing a lone full sized girl to my bantam flock if our move comes off. You've decided me not to. Thank-you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 No problem Mullethunter. I thoroughly recommend getting any newbies in twos or more. Will never do a single again in a flock for that reason. Hated seeing her trying to join in but shunted to the side, which she adhered to, so sad. Even weeks down the line it was the same. She was in the middle of the gang but 'on her own'.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
