Guest Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Well 'daring' comes in different degrees - so perhaps its not that daring after all I think everyone's imagination is going overboard and in for a big disappointment Off to have a choc ice on a stick to now think of a daring feat in the chicken pen I can do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Good on yer Dilly, keeping us all in suspenders.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 oh, so THAT's what was daring not disappointed at all - another brilliant episode in the lives of the Bantam Babes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I have to go have a look now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Yes - I think it is going to run and run now that I have so many They are all different and make my heart melt I have just been to check on them and they are all in bed - half an hour early tonight. Dilly Dilly and Pumpkin are in their des res - which I hope they will give up one day. The babes are all piled on top of each other in the penthouse. After Luscious Lucy's little escapade, I now make sure that I take them out one at a time to make sure they are all in there. Not as easy as you may think, and soon as I put the one back that I have picke up and cuddled, she piles back in, and I have to have a rummage to get a different one. Poor Nellie and Lottie get picked up more than once, and they look the same in the dark - white - but when I get them out, one has a lavender head on one a pale buff one - like really milky caramel. And the hardest one to find - at the bottom of the pile is the teeny weeny Lily - blackish brown with redgold chest and head - and yes you've guessed it she makes the most noise. How she doesn't suffocate with 5 bantams of top of her I don't know - but as soon as I put her back she dives right underneath them. I just couldn't live without my chooks - they are such fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Awww, they sound so gorgeous Dilly, I can't wait to meet them. Off to look at your blog now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 My dear - nothing short of a cuddle with each is mandatory if you visit.xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Cuddle? You'll have to check my pockets before I leave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 No change there then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I'm going to get my act together re finding a Ruby replacement and perhaps A N Other.... because it's so much easier to introduce 2 rather than one..... maybe a RIR bantam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I used to keep a flock of Rhode Island Reds - the full size ones 30 years ago - they were lovely and really tough old birds. I would have had a bantam one too if I had found a breeder in Norfolk/Suffolk that had some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I've been looking in the back of Practical Poultry mag and there are some breeders in my area, plus Pearl (my chicken lady) used to have a trio - she might still have some.... I love their patent leather look feathers and their laying ability. My oldest two are on their 2nd and 3rd layign seasons, they are still laying fine, but I can't bank on it. It's a fine balance though - the garden probably can't take many more... must chop those logs and get them stowed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Just updated my website - with the latest news on the girls - and I have renamed one baby after a favourite little friend of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 just caught up with yesterday ... they are so gorgeous, I love the way they all huddle together in a little flock! You must be having so much fun with them, and it's great that Dilly Dilly and Pumpkin have accepted them without any battles. Do keep posting their conversations, I don't watch any 'soaps' these days, but this is far more entertaining Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Thanks Ollie - there might not be as big a Chicken Shack 'soap' tonight as I am spending all day working hard on the garden - hedges, trees, etc - I think I must have been a lumberjack in a past life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 You don't look like one Dilly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladylucan Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 OK, i started this post and much to my 'shame' cant find the site, can someone give me the link please as i want to catch up on the girls x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 http://www.kooringa.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladylucan Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 duh!!!, thankyou, i should have re read my first message as i put the link on the bottom for everyone else, Every had one of those days. !!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Frequently Tracey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Tracey - all you have to do is click on the www at the foot of my posts and you will go straight to me. Ahem, I mean the girls. Thank you for you kind interest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladylucan Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 Thanks Dilly, I could only think of you as Allotment Lady, and that didnt get me very far!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 She's a woman of mystery Tracey - several aliases . Rosie often refers to her as Kooringa rather than her real name That heart-shaped tater is fab Dilly. Mine have been a total failure this year. I'm giving up on them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Confusing aren't I. Even I get muddled up with who I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Don't start me off on that one Dilly I'm: Clare Claret Mummy Rosie's mum Ms Taylor.... Don't know whether I am comign or ging half the time! Off to bed on that note.... 'night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
