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RE: Adding to the Flock. - Veggie - 07-09-2020
Not yet, Danny, apart from they'll be in touch with a date and pick-up point. Still hoping for this Saturday, 12th.
There are more dates coming up but the collection points aren't usually near me..
19th September – 2400 hens
3rd & 10th October – 5500 hens
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Veggie - 13-09-2020
In case you're wondering, I wasn't offered any chooks this weekend. That should mean that all 2500 hens found new homes without needing me.
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Broadway - 13-09-2020
(13-09-2020, 04:26 PM)Veggie Wrote: In case you're wondering, I wasn't offered any chooks this weekend. That should mean that all 2500 hens found new homes without needing me.Happy, sad, both?
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Veggie - 13-09-2020
Neither really. I've been a bit busy this weekend so it would have been difficult to fit in a car journey for chooks as well.
When the time is right, they'll come. Mrs Brown has no thoughts about it either.
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Veggie - 14-09-2020
The time was definitely not right for more chooks. Mrs Brown knew!!
She normally puts herself to bed in her coop at dusk but the last 2 nights I've found her in the nestbox, which is outside the coop. She was very reluctant to go into the coop, even with a handful of corn to tempt her.
Today, I cleaned out the coop and found red mite - yukky things. So I've been washing and spraying and itching - don't know whether its all in the mind or whether they really are crawling all over me sucking my blood. Horrid things.
I'll let her sleep in a GH tonight while the spray does its work.
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Veggie - 12-10-2020
Hot off the press!!
I'm collecting 3 rescue hens on Saturday.
All I know is that they're little brown ones, about 72 weeks old from a small free range farm.
Better warn Mrs Brown that she's going to have to share her bed soon!
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Small chilli - 12-10-2020
That’s brilliant news.
.Have you chosen names yet ?
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Veggie - 12-10-2020
Not yet but I welcome suggestions...................names that I can call aloud in the garden without upsetting the neighbours.
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Bren - 12-10-2020
If I had chickens I’d call one of them Martha, a friends chook was called that and she was a bit of a character
RE: Adding to the Flock. - Small chilli - 12-10-2020
Mrs pink, mrs orange, mrs white.
Cinnamon, saffron, caramel
Bill, Brian, Barry