The Poultry Keeper

JC · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Sussex

Just a few pics Smile

hope you like!

Mum and chicks Smile

Sussex star hen, Scots Grey chicks

Scruffy 3 and a half week old chicks, mixture of Yokohama, Sumatran and Japanese bantam. Not so cute as the 2 day olds Razz

Garden/vegetable beds/chicken run

Chicken hutches/run's

Robyn and Treacle the "old girls" Nearly 6 and still laying well, there the origonals and the only ones with names.

Two Sussex stars and two Calder rangers

Enjoy!

Pekinout · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 1196 Location: Cornwall

Lovely birds JC. What a lovely place they have to live in and the garden's really lovely.

Aren't chicks ugly once they start to feather up, they seem to go all leggy and straggly lol

JC · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Sussex

Thanks

theres a stream bordering the bottom of the garden aswell, yeh they are at that ugly stage haha

EGirl · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1277 Location: Dublin, Ireland

Doh, just saw these! Lovely set up and fab chicks! Wish I had as much space....can't wait to see your sumatras grow up.

JC · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Sussex

Thanks Egirl, we dont have that much space. About a 3rd of an acre, but neighbours all around so dont have a cockrel.

Attila The Hen · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Shetland

Thanks for posting those Richard.

What a smashing set of chicks, well done. Your scruffy pigeons (the 3 week olds) are looking like nice strong young birds. Lovely dark face on the Sumatra - they look prehistoric, don't they?! Looking forward to getting some myself.

Nice set-up you've got there too. Plenty of shelter and greenery around them. Do you ever let them free-range out of their run?

Your flock is expanding fast!

Attila

JC · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Sussex

Np, Thankyou Jon, they are very scruffy birds chicks.. do you think they will be ok to go off heat at 5 and a half weeks old? If you lived closer i could of swapped them for something of yours Smile

ah well lol

My garden is very green atm.. the chickens live under a humongous ash tree. I used to let them free-range out behind there hutch quite often (every other day) but since i went down there and found a fox standing 5 metres from them.. im a little hesitant. I normally try to go down there every evening to let them out even for half an hour. Bloody foxes!!

I now have 25 chickens if they all survive to adulthood. Gonna sell most of the chicks though as im moving away in september.

chickens rock your sox · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 131 Location: Kildare-Ireland

Wow!!!Fantastic set-up!!!pity you have to leave it!!!I had a problem with foxes aswell!!I went out to feed them before school one morning and there was about 10/20 dead but the fox never took any he just killed them for the craic!!!!so we left the dead ones in a box in our field so then the fox took those and not the live ones at night!!!(just until the HH was built!!)we built a huge house for them but it's in the shed so we let them out the day and brought them back in at feeding time. But then the fox started to strike during the day and the first chickens it killed were my two golden Phoenix hens i had bought the previous day!!!(I had been looking for two hens that breed for so long and when i got them they were killed!!!)

That was back in September '07' and I still hav'nt found any more yet!!!!

But now we try to let them out every now and then for a while if we get a chance. Sad

JC · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Sussex

Grrr lol

Attila The Hen · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Shetland

JC · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 1103 Location: Sussex

haha cheers attila!