2018 Newbie Chat!

[Anna Ranieri]

This was the best photo I could get of most of them! I have three 7 week olds in the house as well. View attachment 1578755

Awwwww well done and thank you, this is a great shot! Absolute beauties!

 

[Anna Ranieri]

I just spent an hour making the run equivalent to the forest. Maple leaves, twigs, juniper leaves(well kinda like a leaf but more ever greenish but brown), and about 3 other kinds of leaves.

Then I wonder why my chickens are night owls...lol

I'm sure I'm confusing the raccoons and Opposums, so a win win for me.

Really liking the sound of this, I'm thinking of stealing your idea, can you tell me do you put any branches in too and if so approx what size?

 

[llombardo]

Really liking the sound of this, I'm thinking of stealing your idea, can you tell me do you put any branches in too and if so approx what size?

You should have saw me at work today. Beautiful red leaves. I spent couple breaks putting leaves in bags to bring home. I got 2 stuffed bags and I saw a pretty tree with yellow leaves that I might hit on my way home.

I have some twigs in there and I will be adding some mulch in the next couple weeks.

The different colors look pretty. I already have branches in there that they can roost on and they do use them.

 

[llombardo]

All 6 laid an egg today

 

[Geranium]

All of my ladies today. 7.5 weeks.

 

[Anna Ranieri]

All 6 laid an egg today

Awwwwww fantastic
Is the blue egg the only one of colour or do you have other colours?

 

[llombardo]

Awwwwww fantastic
Is the blue egg the only one of colour or do you have other colours?

It seems that I have two almost three shades of light brown and the blue one.

 

[llombardo]

Here is my forest in the run...

 

[Anna Ranieri]

It seems that I have two almost three shades of light brown and the blue one.

Ohh how lovely I only have one egg layer so far, Her eggs are a lovely soft cream colour.

 

[Anna Ranieri]

Here is my forest in the run...

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Looks lovely and looks like they'll provide a lot of warmth and protection for their feet. I'm not yet sure where I'm going to find enough leaves but I'm going to try - I thought about our local woods and park but I am reluctant because of the many dog walkers whose dogs use the area for a toilet! I'm really bummed because a few weeks ago my neighbours trees shed a lot of leaves which fell into my garden and I just cleared them away. I have some very large ever green shrubs which I could use but all my birds love to eat off them so I don't want to cut them too much and end up leaving them without.