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

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Wow. I haven't been on since 15/10/15 lol so hi to my friends and Hi to the new peeps I don't know.

Life has just been hectic race to keep my head above water.

I have lost some flock and down to my beautiful resilient Rooroo one Bpr and my just started laying yesterday marans

Hope all is well

 

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Love D'uccles. I'm a recent convert. Love the way they run head down and stop, look about and run again.

I tell people they have personalities like no other breeds of chickens. I can't wait til mine are laying well enough to start hatching.

 

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Good morning friends 

Lol Fancy; dem chookens sure do be crazy!  Glad to hear that your Silky suffered no ill effects from the mane hair … Dusty seems to be OK also, showing no ill effects from the soft plastic cap.

Fizzybelle yep, I am never complaining about the wind again!  While not dropping the actual temperature yesterday, the wind was doing a wonderful job of keeping the humidity at bay.  Beatrice is beautiful!

I definitely second the suggestion of damping down the surrounding greenery; my gals seem to enjoy the coolness and also lay on the damp earth.  Watermelon was on the menu on the weekend here also.

Feather footed chickens are such fun when they run.  Dusty [Bantam Langshan, which have a feathered outer toe] looks like a supercharged turtle when she runs 

Hey Sam I was also wondering where you got to.  So sorry to hear of your losses 

Beautiful bubs MyHaven!  Congratulations!

Another great day with the gals yesterday.  I took the doors off the bug dispenser [aka compost bin] and they had a wonderful time.  They definitely went to bed with full crops last night 

Alas we didn't get the breeze but that not unusual out here, glad some of you did to make it a bit cooler.

 

[Fizzybelle]

I tell people they have personalities like no other breeds of chickens. I can't wait til mine are laying well enough to start hatching.

Agreed! Whilst I only have one, Bea's distinguished herself very clearly from the rest, as personality-wise she stands out quite strongly. Whilst currently last in the pecking order I don't think it'll stay that way. I'd actually really love another one. And a frizzle Pekin. I've developed quite a soft spot for bantam breeds.

IamSamSam sorry to hear about your loss, and welcome back

 

[User395221]

I have lost some flock

That's very sad, we can all empathise.

(maybe I could sneak one of those d'uccles in, they're only little aren't they? They say we can have 6, but little ones only count as a half, right? 2 little chooks to one regular-sized?)

 

[IamSamSam]

Hi, I'd wondered where you were. Sorry to read you've been under pressure and have experienced loss. I understand pressure and being time poor. I recently lost most of my flock to a fox. We got the fox and are rebuilding numbers now.

Good to see you back on.

Glad to hear your rebuilding numbers again. Time poor is a constant unfortunately but the kids are worthy of all my spare time. Back at work too so now I have 40 whole uninterrupted me minutes ! I can catch back up !

 

[IamSamSam]

Thanks Teila. And everyone else for their words.

I'd agree Duccles are 2:1 ratio lol and ever so cute

 

[User395221]

I'd agree Duccles are 2:1 ratio lol and ever so cute

oh goody! (is this what they call "chicken math")?

 

[IamSamSam]

oh goody!  (is this what they call "chicken math")?

LOL partly and partly because you should never introduced one chicken to a flock by itself of course I've heard exceptions to that but we tend to be enablers here so the more the merrier

 

[IamSamSam]

Hey Fancy.

How's the farm and family doing ? How did your daughter do in Victoria and Sydney?