wez Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Hi all I posted last year after we finally got our walk in run up and running (no pun intended!) about the possibility of adding some more girls to our flock with the extra room but only having one Cube. At the time we had 5 Pekins but sadly lost Lilly, our lavender, about a month after the run went up. A few helpful peeps here helped me see that my aspiration to another 3 or 4 birds, taking a total to 9 was puny in comparison to the 12, 13 and 16 hybrids that seem happy to cram themselves in a Cube so I was heartily reassured by that! So, I found a lovely lady who breeds blue Pekins (a long time want of mine) along with black and whites so I reserved one of each from her and they arrived last Thursday, the black just around POL, the white laying as was a November hatch and the blues still cheeping so a few weeks behind ... along with another blue and a lavender! She explained (after I picked myself up off the floor once the courier had left and I called to say they'd arrived safely) that she had lavenders coming out of her ears so thought I'd appreciate one and that the other blue chick was going to be left alone so she wanted it to go with it's mates ... Whilst eternally grateful for such beautiful birds as they are bred from show stock, I immediately eyed the temporary run we'd erected with cheap wooden coop for the quarantine period and knew it was not going to be big enough ... cue wheedling call to hubby (after posting him the photo to see if he could make out 5 not 3 birds before arriving home) who was a bit grumbly and didn't believe I hadn't planned the whole thing but he's a good sport and he spent Friday evening and Saturday morning after a hasty trip to Wickes making a 2m extension for the wooden coop to give them more room before they're put into the walk in and Cube in about 3 weeks time ... The moral of the story is that one good deed leads to requiring several more from your long suffering hubby who loves the girls but made me promise last October once the walk in was built that this was it ... no more changes, extensions etc (I'd extended the original Cube run about 4 times before this!) so I can't wait to see his face when the extra 1m extension for the walk in that I've just ordered arrives ... he's going to be soooooo ... umm ... happy??!! Me, a day off and a rainy day savings pot with internet access is a dangerous thing!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Gosh ... I have to say that while I'm sure they are lovely chicks I'd have been giving the breeder such an earful that the phone cable would have melted! That's extremely irresponsible of her. Your husband really is a good sport - many of us simply couldn't accommodate more birds. That's a case of morehens-disease-by-proxy I think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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