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

[sjturner79]

 

[LuckysMum]

This one I had to share! Blondie waiting to use the favourite nest box. She has been patiently perched for at least 15mins and apparently the other two boxes are invisible

I hope for her sake Cilla is laying and not broody

I have lots of invisible nesting boxes to. I wonder if it comes down to, if your using it I want it too as it must be the best. A bit like kids they never want a toy or your lap unless someone else wants it too.

 

[LuckysMum]

Beautiful.

 

[satay]

Teila ... 

Yep - you probably shouldn't be mowing the lawn !! - -  but I can understand you grabbing an opportunity in that weird and horrid weather you've been having up there.  

Re : fostering ... it did occur to us to  consider that possibly next year, and tku for your kind comments.  Not long after Sonya left, I developed gout and infection - and now inflammatory osteo-arthritis in the right foot big toe, with accompanying ankle problems ( rolling the foot 4 years back, losing entirely a ligament there,  it has never really recovered - and the ankle also swells painfully in the same foot now ), all of which has me unable to walk properly,  and moving very slowly now-a-days, using a cane.   So - for the time being, any thought of a little one under-foot is unfortunately on the back burner.   ... AND - according to the doctor, it is highly likely to remain this way for a very long time, if not forever.   Nice ? - NOT.  

Satay ...  I do hope the CT scan you had yesterday, proves something positive in that you can begin some form of treatment for the pain you are having .... neuralgia / neuritis  of any kind is really horrid.  

MyHaven ... some pages back you mentioned you have inflammatory arthritis in most all of the joints affected,  starting a couple of years back.   I do empathise with you, absolutely.  Cannot take anti-inflammatories myself, due to another medical condition, and the corticosteroids I was put on recently, shot my blood pressure up alarmingly - and dangerously, so I was taken off them immediately.  I remain now on Panadeine Forte.  Hope I don't have to have stronger in pain management.   I have osteo in other joints too, which are painful / uncomfortable at times, but nothing like this recent lot.

Cheers .....       

Thanks everyone the scan showed problems in the base of my back as well as 3/4 of the way up. Pinched nerves in 2 spots. Just meds and gentle exercise so far.

 

[satay]

LuckysMum, that's the way I figure too. A small chicken like a d'uccle doesn't count, barely a third of a full sized chook(their voice on the other hand, well mine anyway, isn't lacking in impact). Glad the rehoming is going well though and that you can visit some of them too.

Well if that is true then i really don't have many chickens at all

 

[LuckysMum]

Thanks everyone the scan showed problems in the base of my back as well as 3/4 of the way up. Pinched nerves in 2 spots. Just meds and gentle exercise so far.

That's great, so that means no housework right.

 

[LuckysMum]

Well if that is true then i really don't have many chickens at all

So you can have more

 

[jessbonnitcha]

After my Welsummer rooster killed my Hamburg rooster I have been looking for a new rooster, but I couldn't find any. I remembered that you can still hatch eggs 2 weeks without a rooster so I put some of the hens eggs under a broody chock and they all successfully hatched!!

5 little hamburgs hatched last Thursday (along with 1 light Sussex) and for the first time EVER I actually want one of them to be a rooster.
Hopefully they look like their father

 

[satay]

That's great, so that means no housework right.  

I wish

 

[satay]

After my Welsummer rooster killed my Hamburg rooster I have been looking for a new rooster, but I couldn't find any. I remembered that you can still hatch eggs 2 weeks without a rooster so I put some of the hens eggs under a broody chock and they all successfully hatched!! 5 little hamburgs hatched last Thursday (along with 1 light Sussex) and for the first time EVER I actually want one of them to be a rooster. Hopefully they look like their father

Gratz. Hope you get a nice new boy from them.