Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Fancychooklady]

I bet they need that extra layer of warmth down there too. Mine have coats they wear in winter .

Hehe, Elsa has a lovely jacket from horseland but she still pulls the blanket up over herself. I'll get a clip of her doing it one day.

 

[Deej211]

Yay! Hubby let me get some more hens for mothers day!!! 2 silvwr laced wyandottes and a beautiful buff partridge bantam. Love love love them. We might actually start getting some eggs around the place now. (I have only 1 laying hen at the moment...the rest are too young) although my rooster has started breeding one of my 3 5mth old australorps so i uassume that egg powerhouse will start soon

 

[Deej211]

My 3 pet roos and a cross bred at the front. My bcm marans rooster Cobber, My blue copper marans roo Blue, and my splash marans rooster Splash. There is also my little bcm hen there too.

gorgeous boys. My 2 just want to kill eachother...ones an indian game and the others polish so i cant even let them sort it out...my polish would get hammered

 

[satay]

gorgeous boys. My 2 just want to kill eachother...ones an indian game and the others polish so i cant even let them sort it out...my polish would get hammered

Mine are gentle boys and never seen them have so much as a spat. They are all from the one hatch and have grown up together so maybe that helps. My bcm roo was bred here bought by some friends as a day old and returned when he ended up crowing as they can't have boys.

 

[satay]

Yay! Hubby let me get some more hens for mothers day!!! 2 silvwr laced wyandottes and a beautiful buff partridge bantam. Love love love them. We might actually start getting some eggs around the place now. (I have only 1 laying hen at the moment...the rest are too young) although my rooster has started breeding one of my 3 5mth old australorps so i uassume that egg powerhouse will start soon

Now that's a great mothers day present

 

[IamSamSam]

The dogs around here are more of the humankind.

Aww adorable

 

[Steampunked]

Phew, cold weather kills me.

Little to update on the Owlhome front save that I have 13 fully grown chickens, and one rooster - Ivan the Terrible turned out to be Ivan the Terrible Rooster because he is a HEN.

Aside from that, holy cow, I've never even had one measley egg from these slackers! They're all about seven months old now, and they are ridiculous slackers. I still feed them, though

 

[Deej211]

Phew, cold weather kills me.

Little to update on the Owlhome front save that I have 13 fully grown chickens, and one rooster - Ivan the Terrible turned out to be Ivan the Terrible Rooster because he is a HEN.

Aside from that, holy cow, I've never even had one measley egg from these slackers!  They're all about seven months old now, and they are ridiculous slackers.  I still feed them, though

my araucanas didnt start til 7-10 mths

 

[Teila]

chooks01 congrats on the new tractor!

Oh my Sidhe13 your little ones are having a rough time of it.

Aaaaw, beautiful bubs TheChookPatch.

satay beautiful boys and so shiny!

Fancy love the snugly dog pic!

Deej211 congrats on the new additions .. perfect Mothers’ Day present.

Steampunked Ivan will now need to be Ivana

We have been an egg free zone for 47 days now. I thought those of us living in an egg free zone needed a Support Group

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ad-for-those-of-us-living-in-an-egg-free-zone

 

[Teila]

Hey folks ... I posted this in the illness/disease thread and would, of course, be interested in your thoughts also ......

Hi and thank you in advance for your thoughts

I wasn't sure whether to post this in here or the chicken behavioural section.

Anyways, I have a Bantam Langshan just over two years old.

For various reasons, today she was clucking louder and more often than she usually does. She is a bit of a whinger but was more vocal about it today; hens not being where she thinks they should, hens on the roost when they should not be etc. Her frequent protests required many breaks from work to run out and see that all was OK.

Anyways, this afternoon, when I let them out for a free range, she proceeded to tell me how bad her day had been and when talking to me her 'voice' is sort of gravelly.

She appears quite happy otherwise, scratching, eating, drinking. Her comb is still nice and red and she has no nasal or eye discharge. Her breathing is normal and not strained. Poops look OK also.

I am probably just being a worry wart and while I do not think she is ill, I will feel better if I knew chickens 'lose their voice' from overuse the same as we do?