Slagasse
In the Brooder
- Sep 3, 2015
- 22
- 0
- 22
Hello
My chicken story begins with a chicken and a duck. My wife widely also named Sarah had them when I moved to Australia with her. A old rescue Bantom and a mascovey duck. Sadly they were attacked by local drunk teens and their necks broken. We were both lost and so that was over 2 years ago. In May my school took part in a hatching program and we had just begun to talk about maybe owning chickens again. I made the suggestion as I had fallen in love with our chicks we look into taking some home. Out of the blue after meeting them my wife decided that yes we had too. It was lucky too. There were many Families who had wanted the chicks but changed their mind so we ended up taking home 6 baby chicks.
I have to say I was not impressed with the program and now being an owner doing research I would go with a hatching program from somewhere more
Willing to work with the animals. We have what we think are one astrolorp, 3 Sussex and one rooster which is a Plymouth white and one sex link rooster.
I love them. My first job in Australia had chickens and a farm but I never realised how much you love these birds. Even our white rooster who even with his crow collar crows for hours.
My wife has built them a
Custom cage and we are now adding an extended run.
They all have names
Black chicken: Bog
Sex link rooster: speckles
White Plymouth rooster: Mr Rooster (as we orginally thought he was our only one)
Our dark red Sussex: Hannibal
Brown Sussex with mostly brown: Henrietta
Our brown Sussex with white collar and tail: chicken number 5 (as that chick used to make crazy noises to mumbo number 5)
My chicken story begins with a chicken and a duck. My wife widely also named Sarah had them when I moved to Australia with her. A old rescue Bantom and a mascovey duck. Sadly they were attacked by local drunk teens and their necks broken. We were both lost and so that was over 2 years ago. In May my school took part in a hatching program and we had just begun to talk about maybe owning chickens again. I made the suggestion as I had fallen in love with our chicks we look into taking some home. Out of the blue after meeting them my wife decided that yes we had too. It was lucky too. There were many Families who had wanted the chicks but changed their mind so we ended up taking home 6 baby chicks.
I have to say I was not impressed with the program and now being an owner doing research I would go with a hatching program from somewhere more
Willing to work with the animals. We have what we think are one astrolorp, 3 Sussex and one rooster which is a Plymouth white and one sex link rooster.
I love them. My first job in Australia had chickens and a farm but I never realised how much you love these birds. Even our white rooster who even with his crow collar crows for hours.
My wife has built them a
Custom cage and we are now adding an extended run.
They all have names
Black chicken: Bog
Sex link rooster: speckles
White Plymouth rooster: Mr Rooster (as we orginally thought he was our only one)
Our dark red Sussex: Hannibal
Brown Sussex with mostly brown: Henrietta
Our brown Sussex with white collar and tail: chicken number 5 (as that chick used to make crazy noises to mumbo number 5)
