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Post by giantrunt on Jan 23, 2015 7:39:27 GMT 8
Just found this... Candled eggs a week back... expect 30+ Chickens... due out tomorrow.... have a nasty clucky hen waiting for them!!.. nasty..:-)
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Post by giantrunt on Jan 25, 2015 13:55:09 GMT 8
Got 26 chicks....all good under Clucky Hen ... very hot here...& really not under her.... but all good... including a few black pekins..
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Post by giantrunt on Jan 26, 2015 8:41:54 GMT 8
Happy Australia Day... New/Mum with new Chicks all settled & Happy...:-)
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Post by featherfoot on Jan 26, 2015 20:43:05 GMT 8
She is not going to have much trouble keeping them warm.
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Post by giantrunt on Jan 27, 2015 14:54:04 GMT 8
8-)All chicks doing well ...bloody hot here...38c an hour ago...... so not a lot happening.. @3... back to shed stuff to do & bored..
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Post by quambie on Jan 27, 2015 20:03:41 GMT 8
just got my Silver Grey Dorking rooster Thanks to Madison he is doing well all tucked up with the girls now mother nature has to do its bit
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Post by giantrunt on Jan 29, 2015 19:40:30 GMT 8
Good News Week.... Belgains have laid her second egg.!.. it smaller then my pigeon eggs.....tiny... the little hens flys out of her pen/yard.... walkes 100 metres & goes into the Sussex Hen House ...laid her second egg today.... then returns back into her pen!!. Did the same yesterday.... Attachments:
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Post by giantrunt on Jan 29, 2015 20:00:55 GMT 8
Moved Sussex Hen with her 26 chicks... 21 Sussex + 5 black Pekin......; into a bigger yard... in a few more days when they settle will open pen & let them free range.... I'm like a little kid just love watching them... do their thing... but Mum a pregnant dog!.. just nasty!.. it was a hell of a job, droving them to their new pen!!..:-) :-) :-) ... the rambling of a chooks keeper...lol..
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Post by featherfoot on Jan 29, 2015 20:47:44 GMT 8
You will have to get yourself a shepherd's crook. Then steer mum which ever way you want.
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Post by giantrunt on Jan 30, 2015 21:52:16 GMT 8
Poly pipe & patience.... all happy...
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