2020 Flock Life

Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

  • Chicken

    Votes: 90 54.2%

  • Egg

    Votes: 55 33.1%

  • Neither

    Votes: 21 12.7%
  • Total voters
    166
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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.
15 ducks, the colours are magpie, Rouen, khaki and a few mixed. 10 Guineas, 2 cocker dogs, 2 rabbits 2 cats View attachment 2041209
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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..
cow
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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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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.
15 ducks, the colours are magpie, Rouen, khaki and a few mixed. 10 Guineas, 2 cocker dogs, 2 rabbits 2 cats View attachment 2041209
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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..
View attachment 2041497View attachment 2041498
there are also around 30 roses in there and there’s a few trees such as blue spruce, blue cedar, holly and junipers.
View attachment 2041174

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

View attachment 2041176View attachment 2041175

More photos of the cottage garden
View attachment 2041177View attachment 2041178View attachment 2041179View attachment 2041180
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.
View attachment 2041181View attachment 2041182View attachment 2041183
these are some of my oil paintings..
I just recently started using oil paints..
cow
View attachment 2041184
Our golden partridge Brahma rooster that goes by the name Prince
View attachment 2041185
two rabbits enjoying their breakfast
View attachment 2041187

Maltese dog
View attachment 2041188

so... I’ve introduced myself.
now it’s your turn :cool:
Click to expand...
I love all of your animals. I live in Texas and I have 15 total chickens right now and 17 more coming in June. I have 4 golden comets, and 4 blue Plymouth Rocks adult hens and 2 cream legbar pullets, 2 black Copper Maran pullets, 2 Ayam Cemani pullets and 1 Ayam Cemani cockerel, well at least I hope I have ONE cockerel. They are all sweethearts and I love them so much. I’ve added some pictures below. :) 75DE6287-4198-4D20-9115-3D033DBB8E61.jpeg BF08D2BE-F9DC-4B64-89F2-02501D74B185.jpeg 6037FDB6-99DF-44D5-B09C-3A86A0174076.jpeg 2B71E95A-54D8-4670-B9A8-FE647C911F24.jpeg F67EF98C-E90F-454E-ADBD-BB036E4D5D4D.jpeg 1A6AB7B8-097E-479F-A19E-1C371DC3ADCE.jpeg 377437AB-3593-4B27-95C0-FAD0D3A34FEC.jpeg E00F928B-45D9-4D54-A2AA-542B552630C5.png 1517A46E-0F98-401B-B58F-69C8192BA1A7.jpeg 71CB93A1-77FE-4F49-987B-AF8244806C19.jpeg
 
ChickenWhisperer101 said:
I love all of your animals. I live in Texas and I have 15 total chickens right now and 17 more coming in June. I have 4 golden comets, and 4 blue Plymouth Rocks adult hens and 2 cream legbar pullets, 2 black Copper Maran pullets, 2 Ayam Cemani pullets and 1 Ayam Cemani cockerel, well at least I hope I have ONE cockerel. They are all sweethearts and I love them so much. I’ve added some pictures below. :)View attachment 2533912View attachment 2533913View attachment 2533914View attachment 2533915View attachment 2533916View attachment 2533917View attachment 2533918View attachment 2533920View attachment 2533922View attachment 2533923
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Beautiful flock you have there! :love
 
Brahmachicken240 said:
Hi everyone! :frow
happy pancake tuesday!
Ive been really busy with online school so i haven’t had the time to be active here.
Hope you’s are all doing well during these tough times!

We’re finally starting to get more eggs from the chickens now that the weather is warmer. The flock is being kept in their run now because theres been alot of foxes around lately. Im keeping all the birds in the one pen now.
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Ive been dumping bales of straw in their run to keep the mud down cause its gotten so muddy from all the rain
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Heres some photos of Olivia and Mr Nibbles having fun in their playpen yesterday evening.
We had a bit of snow over the last two days so they were glad to get some playtime outside.
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Hi Myles!!!

Great to see you still around! I'm floating around again too. Got a few EEs right now, hoping to get some Cochins or Brahmas later this year. I had an order in but then we got some snow, crazy low temps and the electric people decided we needed to do rolling blackouts! I lost a few chicks due to that. But my other ones are doing somewhat ok.

Are you enjoying the classes? I'm sorry to hear about the problem with predators. Your girls are looking so beautiful! And the bunnies!!! so cute!!! :love
 
MysticUniKitty said:
Hi Myles!!!

Great to see you still around! I'm floating around again too. Got a few EEs right now, hoping to get some Cochins or Brahmas later this year. I had an order in but then we got some snow, crazy low temps and the electric people decided we needed to do rolling blackouts! I lost a few chicks due to that. But my other ones are doing somewhat ok.

Are you enjoying the classes? I'm sorry to hear about the problem with predators. Your girls are looking so beautiful! And the bunnies!!! so cute!!! :love
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It's so good to see you and hear that you have chickens again! I hope this means you are all doing better now! 💗 Sorry to hear about the loss of your chicks. You guys have had some crazy weather. My son just moved to Oklahoma and they've been hit with the super low temps too!
 
drstratton said:
It's so good to see you and hear that you have chickens again! I hope this means you are all doing better now! 💗 Sorry to hear about the loss of your chicks. You guys have had some crazy weather. My son just moved to Oklahoma and they've been hit with the super low temps too!
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thank you!
yes it's been super crazy! the utilities don't winterize as we normally don't have these temps, well it came back and bit them this time!!! All of us actually :( Can't wait for it all to pass so i can find my cochin and brahma babies :)
 
MysticUniKitty said:
Hi Myles!!!

Great to see you still around! I'm floating around again too. Got a few EEs right now, hoping to get some Cochins or Brahmas later this year. I had an order in but then we got some snow, crazy low temps and the electric people decided we needed to do rolling blackouts! I lost a few chicks due to that. But my other ones are doing somewhat ok.

Are you enjoying the classes? I'm sorry to hear about the problem with predators. Your girls are looking so beautiful! And the bunnies!!! so cute!!! :love
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:frowGreat to hear from you!! Hope you’re all doing well! Glad you’re restarting your flock!
Sorry you lost some of your chicks the weather hasn’t been very great over here either..hope it warms up soon! Can’t wait for summer so i can spend more time with the flock.
Online school is great! ill be finished this year in early may so ill be on my summer holidays then.😃
 
ChickenWhisperer101 said:
I love all of your animals. I live in Texas and I have 15 total chickens right now and 17 more coming in June. I have 4 golden comets, and 4 blue Plymouth Rocks adult hens and 2 cream legbar pullets, 2 black Copper Maran pullets, 2 Ayam Cemani pullets and 1 Ayam Cemani cockerel, well at least I hope I have ONE cockerel. They are all sweethearts and I love them so much. I’ve added some pictures below. :)View attachment 2533912View attachment 2533913View attachment 2533914View attachment 2533915View attachment 2533916View attachment 2533917View attachment 2533918View attachment 2533920View attachment 2533922View attachment 2533923
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Beautiful flock! Cute chicks! :love
 

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