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JustChickens
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
Posts: 886
Location: Sussex
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 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:32 am Post subject: A small gallery! |
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Just a few pics  hope you like!
Mum and chicks 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 
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! |
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Pekinout
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
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Location: Cornwall
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:45 am Post subject: |
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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 |
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JustChickens
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
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Location: Sussex
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks theres a stream bordering the bottom of the garden aswell, yeh they are at that ugly stage haha |
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EGirl
Joined: 01 Nov 2007
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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JustChickens
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
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Location: Sussex
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks Egirl, we dont have that much space. About a 3rd of an acre, but neighbours all around so dont have a cockrel. |
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Attila The Hen
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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Location: Shetland
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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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!
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JustChickens
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
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Location: Sussex
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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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 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. |
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chickens rock your sox
Joined: 22 Jun 2008
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Location: Kildare-Ireland
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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.  |
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JustChickens
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
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Location: Sussex
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Grrr lol |
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Attila The Hen
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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Location: Shetland
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| JustChickens wrote: | 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 ah well lol
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hehe, will let you know next time I'm driving down south and what's available - I'll bring you a takeaway!
atb Attila |
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JustChickens
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
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Location: Sussex
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| haha cheers attila! |
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