cherrybanana
|
I'm just dipping my toeinto downsizing - recently acquired 3 ex-battery Warrens.
Very interesting site, esp. the poultry stuff for a beginner - thanks for relieving the boredom of my working day!
|
sean
|
Welcome aboard. You may never get any work done ever again. 
|
vegplot
|
Welcome.
We may relieve boredom but be warned Downsizer can be addictive and distracting.
|
marigold
|
Greetings
|
Penny
|
Welcome - how are your hens recovering? I so enjoyed watching ours become real hens again!
|
cherrybanana
|
Thanks for the welcome. I am already addicted - good job I no longer work for a company with an IT Dept monitoring internet usage!
The girls have been a revelation - having read all the dire warnings about the sorry state they'd be in, it's incredible how quickly their natural instincts have kicked in. It's been just over 3 weeks now so apart from their bald fronts you'd never know. They demanded to be let back in to their temporary coop on just the 2nd night as it started to get dark, and have got used to layers pellets, not to mention slugs, worms, tomatoes and grapes. Oh, and they've wrecked most of the grass, but hey, that's a small price to pay for the steady supply of eggs!
|
Chez
|
Welcome! 
|
jocorless
|
Watch out for Chez - She's a chicken pusher - Today ex-Batt's - tomorrow you are wondering how you've ended up with 12 chickens! 
|
vegplot
|
| jocorless wrote: | | Watch out for Chez - She's a chicken pusher - Today ex-Batt's - tomorrow you are wondering how you've ended up with 12 chickens! |
She has a hatchery box thingy for sale as well doesn't she?
|
boisdevie1
|
| jocorless wrote: | | Watch out for Chez - She's a chicken pusher - Today ex-Batt's - tomorrow you are wondering how you've ended up with 12 chickens! |
12. That's nothing. We have 6 hens, a cock, 7 Sussex (for eating), and 6 Guinea Fowl (for eating).
Be afraid, be very afraid. Poultry keeping is addictive.
And good luck.
|
cherrybanana
|
 lorrainelovesplants has already warned me that I'll be buying some hatching eggs from her - I was cooing over her LS chicks at the time
3's definitely enough though!
|
Chez
|
| cherrybanana wrote: | | 3's definitely enough though! |
Ha! We'll be quoting that back to you next spring
|
Barefoot Andrew
|
Welcome!
A.
|
Green Rosie
|
| boisdevie1 wrote: | | jocorless wrote: | | Watch out for Chez - She's a chicken pusher - Today ex-Batt's - tomorrow you are wondering how you've ended up with 12 chickens! |
12. That's nothing. We have 6 hens, a cock, 7 Sussex (for eating), and 6 Guinea Fowl (for eating).
Be afraid, be very afraid. Poultry keeping is addictive.
|
Ho hum - in May we were poultry free - now .... a mere 4 months later we have 6 cockerels, 6 layers, 5 little chooks and 5 turkeys. I want ducks but OH has said no ..... for this year at least.
Yep - poultry keeping IS addictive
Et Bonjour from France 
|
Ginkotree
|
Welcome on board, some of my battery hens are now the most lovely mums.One day the delight of having chicks will be too tempting and you really will wonder what life was all about before
|
colour it green
|
welcome
we seem to have got up to 4 layers, and 6 growers. and one of the layers is sitting on a clutch of eggs....(I couldn't help it.. Chez made me..... )
|
