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

[IamSamSam]

Now lost in our posts ! Teila lovely as always !

And has anyone ever had a roo not crowing at 6 mths?

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have just arranged to borrow zorrow from the farm for a few weeks so I can try and breed her with Sebastian. Kiki looks a lot like her. I will post some pics tomorrow

I wouldn't introduce someone else's birds into my flock. ' bio security ' . It suprises me that the other person would risk taking the roo back into his flock after it has been with yours. Once a bird leaves my property it never comes back.

 

[sjturner79]

Its the Hen I'm Borrow not the Roo, We don't actually have much bio Security between these 2 flocks as the kids often go from on to the other without washing their hands or anything. Both Flocks derive from the same sources, though Some of mine hadn't been hatched last time we got chooks from them. As it is the only Frizzle in the area they though our little roos would be a better cross than the large black crossbreed Roos they have at the minute.
Really If anything the flock that Zorrow Usually Runs with is the quarantine flock as nothing has come here without being there first, Except for the 2 i hatched.

 

[satay]

I'm must tell a little funny story from Ralphs party the other night. First I will explain birthdays out here with our neighbours. There are 5 lots of neighbours that all celebrate each others birthdays. I can't remember how it started but it goes something like Saturday night is a dinner put on by one of the neighbours, Sunday brekkie another neighbour hosts, sunday lunch another and Sunday dinner another. So the birthday person has all these different meals put on for them on their birthday weekend. Well at Saturday nights bbq hosted by neighbour A for ralph. The funniest story came out. You know in every group of friends there is the "one" . Well this is the story Rob our "one " of the neighbour hood.

Robs wife says tell them what happened to our wheelie bin this week.. Rob says I got the truck (he has a tip truck) and put the wheelie bin on the back to take out to the road on Wednesday as he had to go to brissy for a few days and wanted to make sure the bin got emptied.. Goes out shuts the gate and off he goes headed to brissy. He is going along the highway out here and he noticed a few people going past looking at him as they past.. odd he thinks. He takes the comminya turn to turn towards brissy and goes through the windy section. Another car from behind comes up beside him and starts pointing at him to pull over. He stops to see what they want and yes he still has the wheelie bin hooked to the tow ball. The bottom wheel on the right hand side is gone and and there is no where to connect another one as the plastic where it connects is destroyed. No one could stop laughing when we realized he has towed his wheelie bin over 20km down the highway connected only to his tow ball and he had not lost a drop of rubbish. He then of course has to put the bin in the back of the tipper come all the way back before he could return to brissy. Another only rob moment It is noted that we all realize how bad it could have been if it came off but these sorts of things just happen to rob. He once left the Lowood pub after a meal and drove home it wasn't til he got home and couldn't find his wallet that he went out to the car to check and found his wallet on the roof where he had sat it when saying goodbye to everyone at the pub, How it stayed on there the whole way home we don't know.

 

[satay]

Now lost in our posts ! Teila lovely as always !

And has anyone ever had a roo not crowing at 6 mths?

My cochin roo I had for years I can't recall ever crowing. I just presumed it was cause he was in the main pen with other loud roos and never felt the need to .

 

[satay]

Its the Hen I'm Borrow not the Roo, We don't actually have much bio Security between these 2  flocks as the kids often go from on to the other without washing their hands or anything. Both Flocks derive from the same sources, though Some of mine hadn't been hatched last time we got chooks from them. As it is the only Frizzle in the area they though our little roos would be a better cross than the large black crossbreed Roos they have at the minute.
Really If anything the flock that Zorrow Usually Runs with is the quarantine flock as nothing has come here without being there first, Except for the 2 i hatched.

I must admit i'm with the others I would never borrow a hen or roo but you know your flock and the flock the hen is from better than us if you feel the chance is worth it then it is your call to make.

 

[satay]

Hi K-Spot

Long has it intrigued me, that so many chicken owners talk about roosting, and where a chicken sleeps being so important. ... 

As I have mentioned before, my little Araucana has always roosted - on a towelling covered sideways brick, which is on top of her laying box, and the highest she can get in her coop. The 'brick' thing came about quite by accident. !!  

My two big girls took 2 years to learn how to roost ?? .... I didn't push the point, and did not try to place them on the roost. .... They now do both - roost on the railing comfortably,  AND on very cold nights, snuggle up to one another in what was kindly made by my husband, as 'nesting boxes'.  

Well - except for about 4 'mistakes' ( with no bedding - they turf it out of the nesting boxes to expose bare boards ) ... they have never used the nesting / laying boxes for laying.   ... Instead they have a straw nest - in front of the nesting boxes, in which to lay ( when laying ).  If I put straw in the nesting boxes, they kick it out immediately - arranging it all just so, in front of the boxes, .... and there they lay their eggs.  For a week or so here and there, they both might hide the eggs in the straw, but get sick of that game after a while - then resume it again.  .... Have asked elsewhere, why chickens 'hide' eggs ??   

I think maybe, I have very weird chooks. !!    

Your chickens are not weird anni . I find most of my bantams refuse to use a nest box and prefer to lay on the ground. I'm not too fussed. Whatever works for them is fine by me.

 

[satay]

I got 5 yesterday. New to BYC. I have two that are "a cross between a black sex link and Silverlace blue Wyandot, one gold sex link, one barred rock, and one black Australorpe. Sadly though, I lost my white leghorn several months ago. She was my double yolker.

I got 5 yesterday. New to BYC. I have two that are "a cross between a black sex link and Silverlace blue Wyandot, one gold sex link, one barred rock, and one black Australorpe. Sadly though, I lost my white leghorn several months ago. She was my double yolker.

and congratz on your eggs.e

I had a leghorn hen once that laid the biggest eggs not double yolkers like yours though.

 

[satay]

I went out to lunch today & my daughter spotted a silkie quietly puttering around the garden of the house next to the restaurant.  I still can't get over how well behaved it was.  If my flock lived next to a restaurant that had a balcony in full view of the garden all 7 of them would be lined up & shrieking for food every time someone stepped out onto the balcony area.  Then they would have hopped over that little fence and chased off the seagulls & every other bird on the beach over the road - defending their extended patch. 
OK, the silkie may not be able to get over the fence, but surely it has noticed the FOOD being eaten next door.  My chickens even know the sound of the garage door means I'm home & therefore available to be 'called' outside to provide treats.    I wonder if I can drop my flock off there for a bit of training. 

I can imagine mine doing the same as yours. Mass invasion of the chicken variety

 

[satay]

As I mentioned earlier, just sharing some pictures I took today .. Crystal and KiKi are coming up for 14 weeks old. This is LuLu who wanted her picture taken "Just because I am beautiful" I thought this was a nice one of Cilla: This is KiKi showing off how beautiful she is: This is Crystal, I also think she is beautiful While not posing pictures, I took the following to show the colouring Crystal and KiKi have. You can see the blue in Crystals wings and she has a blue/silver 'undertone' to her buff feathers. KiKi has the funniest tail with it's black lines and you can also just see them in her neck feathers. More of the blue/silver undertone:

Stunning girls you have teila