Hi From New Zealand
So happy to have my girls and boys and learning from them (they had ME trained in no time lol). They are so giving and have quite different personalities which are a joy not to mention the eggs
Absolutely spoilt rotten
I started with Brown Shavers as my first time with chooks and they would follow me around everywhere, and especially loved me digging holes for the roses - right beside me scratching the newly dug out soil while I was putting in the compost and horse poo for the roses to plant
Real cute.
The Short Haired German Pointer adopted them, 'his girls', and spends all day herding them. Lovely to watch. They aren't even scared of him and push the boundries all the time, nice to see the two way communication in process.
Then I increased the flock (well they looked SOOOOO cute on the auction site pictures
and was lucky enough to get them at a few weeks old so now have 8 Orphington Wyndote cross hens and 3 roosters, 2 white wyndotte cross hens, 9 Brown Shavers, 1 Silver Wyndotte, and those babies are now clucky and hatching their own babies - so excited - but into new terratory again so heaps of learning.
Now how is this for spoilt - the hens get 'nesting box service'! Yes haha, they get their dinner feed bought to them!
At first they were quite stressed but now are happy to get it and are waiting with their eyes looking
For the chooks, we have a large run (which they are hardly ever in free terrorising the gardens, paddocks, horses, dogs and horse feed) with three chook houses in it and one outside it that we have just bought.
Our family is 3 dogs - Short Haired German Pointer, Spoodle and Long Haired Bearded Collie; 6 in work race horses; 2 younger horses not yet read to work; 2 broad mares and 1 boy who is waiting to teach us to ride; a whole heap of dairy cows, couple of bulls; 2 children at home; 2 children out of town with 4.5 grandchildren! Aside from owner/trainer race horses and dairying (as if that isn't enough
we also have educated people on their health world wide for 17 years and are just in the process of starting up a world wide mail order health food shop with unique products which have instant results which is affliliate based and franchisable for local towns in many countries
With all of that, this forum is such a joy and real time out reading and learning about my boys and girls which are my joy time each day, so thank you everyone
for your contributions which have made this such a treasure trove
and to the organisers for their vision and loads of time to bring this to us all
Live Long and Prosper, Louise
I started with Brown Shavers as my first time with chooks and they would follow me around everywhere, and especially loved me digging holes for the roses - right beside me scratching the newly dug out soil while I was putting in the compost and horse poo for the roses to plant
The Short Haired German Pointer adopted them, 'his girls', and spends all day herding them. Lovely to watch. They aren't even scared of him and push the boundries all the time, nice to see the two way communication in process.
Then I increased the flock (well they looked SOOOOO cute on the auction site pictures
Now how is this for spoilt - the hens get 'nesting box service'! Yes haha, they get their dinner feed bought to them!
For the chooks, we have a large run (which they are hardly ever in free terrorising the gardens, paddocks, horses, dogs and horse feed) with three chook houses in it and one outside it that we have just bought.
Our family is 3 dogs - Short Haired German Pointer, Spoodle and Long Haired Bearded Collie; 6 in work race horses; 2 younger horses not yet read to work; 2 broad mares and 1 boy who is waiting to teach us to ride; a whole heap of dairy cows, couple of bulls; 2 children at home; 2 children out of town with 4.5 grandchildren! Aside from owner/trainer race horses and dairying (as if that isn't enough
Live Long and Prosper, Louise
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