LittleGecko
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- Jul 5, 2014
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Hello everyone my name is Joanne. I had pet chickens as a child and after years in the chicken free wilderness wanted another flock of feathered friends.
The opportunity came along quite unexpectedly last December, we had decided to pop into the petshop that had recently opened and there in a rabbit cage were four scruff partly feathered chicks. I promptly fell in love with them and after some discussion with the better half asked if they were for sale.
The lady said that they were not but were up for adoption, it seems a man had bought the chicks to feed live to a pet snake (it is illegal to do this) but his horrified girlfriend had insisted on saving them and had been hand rearing but could not keep them.
To cut a long story short, we adopted them and reared them in a 4 foot vivarium in our sitting room, (we also keep geckos, a skink, three snakes, a tarantula and assorted fish, and the vivarium had been the home of our beloved bearded dragon who had passed from old age some weeks previously.)
I received a lovely new coop for Christmas which my other half who had fallen in love with the chooks too as had our daughter, set up in the front garden and the chooks now very tame and dedicated lap sitters and tv watchers, (they still like to pop in of an evening or indeed anytime the door is open!) moved into in the spring.
The scruffy little articles have grown up to be a blue golden duckwing Brahma cockerel called Lovejoy, a blue partridge hen, named Clara and two easter egger hens called Rose and Donna.
We have since added a pair of Pekins called Tinker and Amy, Tinker is also a cockerel as Lovejoy pretended to be a hen for an inordinate length of time, but he and Lovejoy are great friends and care for the girls together. and a pair of silver penciled wynadotte hens called Martha and Harriet.
We now also have five chicks!
We live at the edge of a small village and there is common land well planted with trees in front of the house, so every morning the chooks head out of the gate after breakfast to spend the day free ranging with the occasional sheep for company, popping back now and then for a drink and some pellets. But they only have to hear us come outdoors and they come charging home for the treats of corn that my two year old daughter who utterly adores them enthusiasticly distributes!
Well thats the story so far of our chooks! I am really looking forward to chatting with you all.
Jo
The opportunity came along quite unexpectedly last December, we had decided to pop into the petshop that had recently opened and there in a rabbit cage were four scruff partly feathered chicks. I promptly fell in love with them and after some discussion with the better half asked if they were for sale.
The lady said that they were not but were up for adoption, it seems a man had bought the chicks to feed live to a pet snake (it is illegal to do this) but his horrified girlfriend had insisted on saving them and had been hand rearing but could not keep them.
To cut a long story short, we adopted them and reared them in a 4 foot vivarium in our sitting room, (we also keep geckos, a skink, three snakes, a tarantula and assorted fish, and the vivarium had been the home of our beloved bearded dragon who had passed from old age some weeks previously.)
I received a lovely new coop for Christmas which my other half who had fallen in love with the chooks too as had our daughter, set up in the front garden and the chooks now very tame and dedicated lap sitters and tv watchers, (they still like to pop in of an evening or indeed anytime the door is open!) moved into in the spring.
The scruffy little articles have grown up to be a blue golden duckwing Brahma cockerel called Lovejoy, a blue partridge hen, named Clara and two easter egger hens called Rose and Donna.
We have since added a pair of Pekins called Tinker and Amy, Tinker is also a cockerel as Lovejoy pretended to be a hen for an inordinate length of time, but he and Lovejoy are great friends and care for the girls together. and a pair of silver penciled wynadotte hens called Martha and Harriet.
We now also have five chicks!
We live at the edge of a small village and there is common land well planted with trees in front of the house, so every morning the chooks head out of the gate after breakfast to spend the day free ranging with the occasional sheep for company, popping back now and then for a drink and some pellets. But they only have to hear us come outdoors and they come charging home for the treats of corn that my two year old daughter who utterly adores them enthusiasticly distributes!
Well thats the story so far of our chooks! I am really looking forward to chatting with you all.
Jo
and Welcome To BYC!
