2020 Flock Life

[BrokenEggFarm]

Hello!! Here is a bit about myself
I live in Manchester,England
I am a mother to two hens, 2 chicks, 1 dog, 1 cat and 1 horse
Obsessed with all animals
Used to have 3 hens but one of them died just recently due to a prolapse (the second and third pictures)View attachment 2268180View attachment 2268179

Here are few pictures but i will take some more and post them later
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Welcome!

 

[Cupcake1243]

Welcome!

 

[BrokenEggFarm]

Ya’ll! I just got my baby chicks!!!! Although I am worried about one of them because it is quite a bit older than one day so it didn’t hand the trip as well as the others. But here are some pictures!

We got three of everything, golden laced Wyandotte’s, silver laced Wyandotte’s, specked Sussex’s, cuckoo maran’s, ameraucana’s, and one free suprise chick that it think is a golden laced polish!

 

[Cupcake1243]

Ya’ll! I just got my baby chicks!!!! Although I am worried about one of them because it is quite a bit older than one day so it didn’t hand the trip as well as the others. But here are some pictures! View attachment 2268288We got three of everything, golden laced Wyandotte’s, silver laced Wyandotte’s, specked Sussex’s, cuckoo maran’s, ameraucana’s, and one free suprise chick that it think is a golden laced polish!

aww so lucky! we are looking for chicks to!

 

[BrokenEggFarm]

aww so lucky! we are looking for chicks to!

What are you thinking about getting? I ordered these chicks in March so I had to wait a while to get them!

 

[Cupcake1243]

What are you thinking about getting? I ordered these chicks in March so I had to wait a while to get them!

well any chicks that will grow fairly big and are very social able. Also. we are not looking for now we were thinking around end of august?

 

[Ladybird CA]

Mystic, I am so sorry about your chickens and hope you and your husband get well soon.

The person who asked about their brahma being a pullet or cockerel, I think you have a pullet because buff brahma females are buff colored while the males are orange.

Drstratton, nice colorful flock!

Cupcake, that wyandotte is beautiful. I've never seen a lavender one before.

In my last post I said I'd post pictures by the end of the month so here they are:

I got these bantam cochin pullets on June 24th. Their names are Snowball (white, hatched 2018), Buttercup (buff, May 23, 2019), Penny (Barred, February 2020), Blue bell the blue and Molly the mottled both hatched the day my mom's dog died on St. Patrick's day this year.

Snowball in the run by herself. She is blind in one eye so is always the last to go in the coop. Sometimes the automatic coop door closes on her so I put her in the coop myself.

I can't tell if my son Keith is more interested in the coop or the chickens. Either way he always wants to go in there.

Snowball photo bombing

Blue Bell and Penny. I named her Penny because she is the shyest one- she reminds me of the little girl from the Disney movie the Rescuers. Blue Bell was my favorite ice cream brand when I lived in Arizona. It's not sold in Canada I don't think.

One day I was cleaning the coop the birds got out from under it so I let them wander around the yard until Buttercup found a hole in the fence and the neighbor's cat scared her into hiding. Took us and another neighbor a couple hours to get her back. The cat got hit by a car last week (RIP Leo) and we patched up the hole. We will be letting them out for more supervised time outside of their run since our yard isn't completely fenced in. My son likes to help me catch them with his net. I hand him the net then he chases them til I catch them. I picked the name Molly because a friend of mine named her new kitten that and I thought Molly goes well with a mottled chicken.

Well back to french homework. Hope to do another post in the fall.

 

[BrokenEggFarm]

Sadly we lost one of the chicks last night but all the rest seem to be happy! ❤❤❤

 

[MysticUniKitty]

Thanks @drstratton and @bantamsrmyfav !!

Hubs says once things calm down we'll save up for a chicken mansion with a run...
Hubs finally got a surgery day for next week, so yay! I found out my issues might be from the cement company that opened up down the road, if all the other tests show negative (asthma, lung function, and so on)... We might have to move. So for now we're enjoying our indoor animals. Specially our new pup. Which turns out to be a girl! We're in the process of saying goodbye to our other dog... She's got a lot of absesses, starting to reverse sneeze, and generally not want to be around us.

We miss our chickies a lot... At least me and the youngest. But knowing at a later time we can try again makes it a little better.

 

[drstratton]

Thanks @drstratton and @bantamsrmyfav !!

Hubs says once things calm down we'll save up for a chicken mansion with a run...
Hubs finally got a surgery day for next week, so yay! I found out my issues might be from the cement company that opened up down the road, if all the other tests show negative (asthma, lung function, and so on)... We might have to move. So for now we're enjoying our indoor animals. Specially our new pup. Which turns out to be a girl! We're in the process of saying goodbye to our other dog... She's got a lot of absesses, starting to reverse sneeze, and generally not want to be around us.

We miss our chickies a lot... At least me and the youngest. But knowing at a later time we can try again makes it a little better.

I hope everything goes well with your husband's surgery & they can nail down what's happening with you.