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

[appps]

We ended up with her Satay as the kids just had to have the poor tiny one that everyone else was picking on. The breeder had actually put her back in with the week olds when she was about 5 weeks old so she could hold her own. It never got any better. No one really picks on her but she is always a bit on the outer and that makes her nervous. I sometimes think about hatching a couple silkie eggs next time I hatch to ger her a friend but knowing my luck they would both end up boys and I wouldnt be able to find them homes. They would need to be show quality eggs or something so I knew boys would be easier to rehome.

I thought the aussie chick she hatched would hang out with her but even she chases and pecks her if she comes between it and food these days. (It has been renamed Peppa (Pig) instead of Pepper for good reason.

 

[appps]

Tee hee satay. So when the wheel-less wheelie got home did someone ask it “where ya bin?”

Sorry, I know that was bad! I will slap myself

appps I have two indoor cats with an outdoor run and it really peeves me [

] that I am always chasing neighbourhood cats out of my yard and away from my bantams! The girls always raise the alarm if I am not out in the garden; the coop and run are cat and dog proof and free range is always supervised because of everyone else’s pets!

I most definitely would not trust a strange cat around my gals and yep, I do think it would be a danger to a Silkie.

K Spot I actually did read a story about a chicken in the UK which reportedly turned into a rooster but this one was crowing and stopped laying. It also was not fertile. It did, however, reportedly grow it’s combs and wattles and crowed every morning. An expert or Vet or whatever, said that it can and does happen in some rooster-less flocks.

They have been a bit spooked a few times lately and I couldnt work out why. I thought maybe the Kite was circling or something and Id missed it but now Im wondering......

 

[appps]

that sucks indint think it will come afain though it has happened to me before

Well it did nearly fall off the fence LOL It was sort of half straddled over some bamboo screening the neighbours have put up so it half tangled its feet and didnt jump off even a little bit gracefully ;-)

 

[satay]

We ended up with her Satay as the kids just had to have the poor tiny one that everyone else was picking on.  The breeder had actually put her back in with the week olds when she was about 5 weeks old so she could hold her own.    It never got any better.  No one really picks on her but she is always a bit on the outer and that makes her nervous.  I sometimes think about hatching a couple silkie eggs next time I hatch to ger her a friend but knowing my luck they would both end up boys and I wouldnt be able to find them homes.  They would need to be show quality eggs or something so I knew boys would be easier to rehome.

I thought the aussie chick she hatched would hang out with her but even she chases and pecks her if she comes between it and food these days. (It has been renamed Peppa (Pig) instead of Pepper for good reason.

Oh poor girl. That would be me though I would have to take home the one getting picked on so I can understand why your kids did. Could you buy another silkie or small bantam maybe.. I guess it would be pot luck whether they turned out to me mates or not. I have noticed out of all the breeds I have the Belgians are more likely to adopt a friend that are not of the same breed as them where the pekins are like shove of your not one of us.

 

[appps]

Oh poor girl. That would be me though I would have to take home the one getting picked on so I can understand why your kids did. Could you buy another silkie or small bantam maybe.. I guess it would be pot luck whether they turned out to me mates or not. I have noticed out of all the breeds I have the Belgians are more likely to adopt a friend that are not of the same breed as them where the pekins are like shove of your not one of us.

Think it would need to be a silkie, we even have two bantam silkie mixes we got at the same time and they tolerate her but she isnt really one of the gang. maybe its those weird feathers lol

 

[satay]

Tee hee satay.  So when the wheel-less wheelie got home did someone ask it “where ya bin?”

Sorry, I know that was bad!  I will slap myself 

appps I have two indoor cats with an outdoor run and it really peeves me [ ] that I am always chasing neighbourhood cats out of my yard and away from my bantams!  The girls always raise the alarm if I am not out in the garden; the coop and run are cat and dog proof and free range is always supervised because of everyone else’s pets!

I most definitely would not trust a strange cat around my gals and yep, I do think it would be a danger to a Silkie.

K Spot I actually did read a story about a chicken in the UK which reportedly turned into a rooster but this one was crowing and stopped laying.  It also was not fertile.  It did, however, reportedly grow it’s combs and wattles and crowed every morning.  An expert or Vet or whatever, said that it can and does happen in some rooster-less flocks.

Those types of comments were flying at rob all night. I remember bet ya wheelie never gunna do that again and you must have looked wheelie wheelie stupid driving down the highway like that. Wish I had taken a picture of the bin the other day when we were there.

 

[IamSamSam]

I have a huge old light sussex hen that doesn't roost.  She's content on the ground and has made herself a nice little bed on top of shavings so I let her be.  On some nights Whoppi joins her, other nights she's roosting with the others.  I just leave them be, unless they have take up residence in the nest boxes. 


In other news - I heard a bit of a weird comment from my Nan yesterday when I went to visit her.  She said she had a lady around to do some work on one of her horses and mentioned what a nice rooster Nan had. Nan replied I don't have a rooster, which chicken are you talking about.  This woman pointed to one of Nan's big light sussex and said "That one, his comb and wattles are big and red, that's a rooster".  

Nan apparently was a bit bewildered and said she'd never heard it crow and just before the cold, the chicken was laying.  This woman said a chicken can change it's sex from a hen to a rooster and that my Nan definitely had a rooster. 


When I visited her yesterday she told me all of this and asked if I've ever seen it before.  I told her it was impossible for a chicken to change it's gender, but that it wasn't unheard of for a hen to take on the role of a rooster in the absence of one; attempting to crow and mounting the other hens. 

She then took me over to see the bird in question - I told her immediately that the chicken was no rooster, that my light sussex hen looked nearly identical with big red wattles and comb.  She was relived that the hen wasn't a rooster. 

Nan told me this lady insisted she's seen it happen in a couple of cases.  I just shook my head no. 

Lol this made my day

 

[satay]

Just saw this on facebook and had to share. Maybe there will a few aussies making up these signs soon.

 

[Teila]

Just saw this on facebook and had to share. Maybe there will a few aussies making up these signs soon.

... love it! I gotta get me 5 of those printed up!

 

[K Spot]

K Spot I actually did read a story about a chicken in the UK which reportedly turned into a rooster but this one was crowing and stopped laying. It also was not fertile. It did, however, reportedly grow it’s combs and wattles and crowed every morning. An expert or Vet or whatever, said that it can and does happen in some rooster-less flocks.

I stand corrected @Teila , but I would think it *quite* rare