2020 Flock Life

Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

  • Chicken

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    Votes: 55 33.1%

  • Neither

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After all of the work we've done, we finally get to see our flock enjoy their new space!!! We hung the new gate that my husband built and put the automatic door that he built many years ago in place today!

23 very happy Chickens!!!
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Bravely Exploring their new space!
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Having a little fun and spreading their wings! My battery ran down and I missed a huge flight from the far end, back to where I was standing!
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drstratton said:
After all of the work we've done, we finally get to see our flock enjoy their new space!!! We hung the new gate that my husband built and put the automatic door that he built many years ago in place today!

23 very happy Chickens!!!
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Bravely Exploring their new space!
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Having a little fun and spreading their wings! My battery ran down and I missed a huge flight from the far end, back to where I was standing!
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It looks amazing!! And they look so happy! Great job guys!!! :love
 
Went out and took photos of the littles... They're doing great! This weekend is cleaning... So please excuse the mess 😖 it's so hot we have to be careful.
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The adult girls have lice!! We just got the spray today so will be spraying them down tonight before bed. I sprayed their nest boxes down, roosting areas, and entrance to stall. Hopefully it helps!
 
Dottie the Chicken said:
Nice chicks! Hopefully the lice will go away soon!!
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Thank you!! They're pretty sweet...

I think because it started out hotter then normal the bugs have been worse... I'm going to make a dusting bath frame and work on getting that set up for them. This next week is to have a "chill" so going to work on a few more things for them.
 
Brahmachicken240 said:
Hello and welcome to my chat thread 🐔👋
I’m making another one of these because the last one Went a bit silent and I was starting to talk to myself... Am I really that boring?? 😬 😂

Allow me to introduce myself.
I live in Ireland.
I have 30 chickens, 27 Brahmas, blue buff columbian, golden partridge, blue partridge and lemon Pyle are their colours, I could go through them all individually but I wouldn’t want to bore you..,1 RIR, 1 buff Orpington and 1 buff Orpington mix.
only had around 10 chickens at the beginning of last year but I became a bit of a Hatchaholic.. it was around 50 at one stage :oops:...
The plan was to breed them but they ended up getting a respiratory illness so now I’ve decided to keep them as a closed flock. Which is kinda what I was going to do anyways because no one was buying the roosters and I just had so many.
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some of my favourite hobbies other then caring for animals are garden design, interior design, painting and sculpting...

My cottage garden.
the garden consists of plants that attract butterflies and bees such as butterfly bush/ buddleia , sedum, delphinium, Ligularia dentata, red and yellow broom, sunflowers, petunias, bleeding hearts, montbretia and a few others
that I forget the names of..
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there are also around 30 roses in there and there’s a few trees such as blue spruce, blue cedar, holly and junipers.
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this next one is the patio.
it consists of different types of exotic plants like windmill palm, canary island date palm, musa basjoo the hardy banana... yes I grow bananas and palm trees here in Ireland.. bamboo, different types of hosta’s, Japanese maples, phormiums, cordylines, musella lasiocarpa, calla lily, ligularia, gunnera, fatsia japonica,Miscanthus sinensis Zebrinus, passion vine, silver spear, canna lily and different types of coleus

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More photos of the cottage garden
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I like to grow sunflowers every year because they are beautiful plants, they’re great for wildlife and they put a smile on everyone’s face.
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these are some of my oil paintings..
I just recently started using oil paints..
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Our golden partridge Brahma rooster that goes by the name Prince
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two rabbits enjoying their breakfast
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Maltese dog
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so... I’ve introduced myself.
now it’s your turn :cool:
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Now that was an introduction. Beautiful flock! I want some ducks, but the wife wants me to put in a pool for them first. Dogs are very well groomed and I love me some (springer spaniel golden retriever mix?). Your backyard is awesome (I hope my wife does not see). Looks like oyu have put a bunch of work into it, and it has truly paid off...Beautiful! Thanks for the thread, and I promise to post some pics of my girls (our family hens).
 

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