- Thread starter
- #11
ahhh I love you guys! so glad you missed me....plumps up ones feathers in the knowledge friends missed the old English chick.....
I will now get myself organised and take pics of my babies they are so gorgeous..... in the Sultans their is one cockeral who I have named "Rocky Sultano" (love Sly Stallone so its a tribute to his Rocky films!) and have named my little Lemon Mille Fluer Sablepoot cockeral "Mozart" because his little crowing is music to my ears. The Old English Pheasant fowl female I have called Enid...she is the cutest baby (only one to hatch from the eggs as was Mozart. The silver pencilled Wyandottes (5 of them) have just named the Crazy Gang because they make me laugh. The Guinea Fowl keets I hatched are coming along famously soooo cute and have named them the "Come Backs" because of their call which sounds the same "come back come back come back" love them. I was given to other Xbred hens and a muscovy duck by a chap how no longer wants to keep birds, have called the duck"Mercy" because I thought it was a drake! well mercy me its a girl, so Mercy it is, she is lovely. The little black silkie chick who should have been a hen (the breeder said so!) called her Doris but now she's Boris!
Another friend gave me the last two of her hens for safety as the darn fox had the other eighteen! in broad daylight, but have not named them yet. Horatio the peacock has just lost his fab tail in the August moult so is feeling a little sorry for himself....so vain. But the saddest news is that my old White Bib duck "Ebony" who has just turned nine years old is dying, from old age, she has moved away from the others and taken up residence in one of the stables, quietly to die, I cannot put her to sleep she is not in any pain it is just old age and I want her to pass in her own time...she has been a good friend and I will miss her when she goes.
The other girls I am collecting next week are rescued battery hens who will at long last be "wild and free" as a bird should be, cant wait to see their faces when they actually get to see the sky! Work is underway giving the stable block a "henny" makeover and lots of nesting boxes and roosts although they will only be inches off the floor to begin with, will do pics of the make over and the "nursery" stable.
Now that I am finally back on line it's coming between me and my sleep!
Take care you guys "chat" soon. Recently took a day trip (to make up for not going to Florence!) to our hill farm in North Wales (windy rainy day) but got some nice pics which
I will post tomorrow, to show you the Welsh mountain range
that surrounds the farm, hope you like them, we run our flock of hill sheep there, they are tough little "critters"
I will now get myself organised and take pics of my babies they are so gorgeous..... in the Sultans their is one cockeral who I have named "Rocky Sultano" (love Sly Stallone so its a tribute to his Rocky films!) and have named my little Lemon Mille Fluer Sablepoot cockeral "Mozart" because his little crowing is music to my ears. The Old English Pheasant fowl female I have called Enid...she is the cutest baby (only one to hatch from the eggs as was Mozart. The silver pencilled Wyandottes (5 of them) have just named the Crazy Gang because they make me laugh. The Guinea Fowl keets I hatched are coming along famously soooo cute and have named them the "Come Backs" because of their call which sounds the same "come back come back come back" love them. I was given to other Xbred hens and a muscovy duck by a chap how no longer wants to keep birds, have called the duck"Mercy" because I thought it was a drake! well mercy me its a girl, so Mercy it is, she is lovely. The little black silkie chick who should have been a hen (the breeder said so!) called her Doris but now she's Boris!
Another friend gave me the last two of her hens for safety as the darn fox had the other eighteen! in broad daylight, but have not named them yet. Horatio the peacock has just lost his fab tail in the August moult so is feeling a little sorry for himself....so vain. But the saddest news is that my old White Bib duck "Ebony" who has just turned nine years old is dying, from old age, she has moved away from the others and taken up residence in one of the stables, quietly to die, I cannot put her to sleep she is not in any pain it is just old age and I want her to pass in her own time...she has been a good friend and I will miss her when she goes.
The other girls I am collecting next week are rescued battery hens who will at long last be "wild and free" as a bird should be, cant wait to see their faces when they actually get to see the sky! Work is underway giving the stable block a "henny" makeover and lots of nesting boxes and roosts although they will only be inches off the floor to begin with, will do pics of the make over and the "nursery" stable.
Now that I am finally back on line it's coming between me and my sleep!
Take care you guys "chat" soon. Recently took a day trip (to make up for not going to Florence!) to our hill farm in North Wales (windy rainy day) but got some nice pics which
I will post tomorrow, to show you the Welsh mountain range
that surrounds the farm, hope you like them, we run our flock of hill sheep there, they are tough little "critters"
