UpWithThe Chickens
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Hi everyone,
I‘m Mel & I live in the Adelaide foothills with my husband and our 18 month old gold border collie, Duchess. We have 3 adult children who no longer live at home.
Our other animals include an alpaca (Angie), 2 miniature goats (Tilly & Casper the friendly goat), 4 saxony ducks (Beatrix, Jemima, Rebekah & Quakkers), 3 saxony drakes (Beau, Mr Drake & Cheese.... yep, my husband rolled his eyes at me too
) and 5 hens
Dottie - Plymouth Rock (she was sold to me as a Gold Laced Wyandotte hence the name and I didn’t know better)
Esther - Easter Egger
Valda - Barnevelder
Aurora - Splash Australorp
Aria - Araucana
and much to my husband’s dismay another 7 chicks - 6 are 4 weeks old and the other is about 5-6 weeks.
I think I’ve sexed 5 to be pullets but the other 2 are Wyandottes, a gold laced and a blue laced gold, and they have me stumped. For now they are both named Wyn... Wynston & Wynthorp or Winnie & Wynona
Patti - Spangled Hamburg
Venus - Vorwerk
Sadie - Speckled Sussex
Lylah - Light Sussex (also the older one)
Nell - Blue Laced Barnevelder
In my spare time I‘m a full time uni student studying Medical Radiation Science (Radiation Therapy), just about to start 2nd year of a 4 year degree.
I‘m Mel & I live in the Adelaide foothills with my husband and our 18 month old gold border collie, Duchess. We have 3 adult children who no longer live at home.
Our other animals include an alpaca (Angie), 2 miniature goats (Tilly & Casper the friendly goat), 4 saxony ducks (Beatrix, Jemima, Rebekah & Quakkers), 3 saxony drakes (Beau, Mr Drake & Cheese.... yep, my husband rolled his eyes at me too
) and 5 hensDottie - Plymouth Rock (she was sold to me as a Gold Laced Wyandotte hence the name and I didn’t know better)
Esther - Easter Egger
Valda - Barnevelder
Aurora - Splash Australorp
Aria - Araucana
and much to my husband’s dismay another 7 chicks - 6 are 4 weeks old and the other is about 5-6 weeks.
I think I’ve sexed 5 to be pullets but the other 2 are Wyandottes, a gold laced and a blue laced gold, and they have me stumped. For now they are both named Wyn... Wynston & Wynthorp or Winnie & Wynona
Patti - Spangled Hamburg
Venus - Vorwerk
Sadie - Speckled Sussex
Lylah - Light Sussex (also the older one)
Nell - Blue Laced Barnevelder
In my spare time I‘m a full time uni student studying Medical Radiation Science (Radiation Therapy), just about to start 2nd year of a 4 year degree.
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I'm in north western NSW.
