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TwistedFeathers

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Hi, i'm from New Zealand at the bottom of the world. I found this forum when floating in google looking for info on chookens.

I have 6 pullets and one rooster. They are bantam Ameraucanas, and i'm really interested in learning everything i can about them.
I'm also looking at maybe getting into showing a bit. There is a local show coming up that i am going to enter

So yea, hello :)
 

welcome!! so glad you found us! you will find there are amazing folks on here with loads of interesting information, great wisdom they are willing to share, oh and more than a few really funny stories
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Thanks guys :) I have found one of the threads anyway, will go check out the other :)

And i'm looking forward to the adventures the chickens will take me on. They are we characters for sure. I have started letting them out of the coop, i started by putting up some netting in an area around the door, to get them used to going out, and then coming back inside to a food call(and a scoop of wheat lol)
Yesterday one of the girls realised she could duck under the netting, and took two friends with her. the others rushed back and forwards, and the rooster was almost beside himself. So i dashed around chicken proofing the back yard, and they spent a happy couple of hours poking, scratching and pecking around. I shut them up when i am not home, because the neighbour down the road brings home a couple of his farms mongrel dogs every day,and they come roaming in my section pissing on everything and trying to find my dog to start a scrap, and i don't want them to decided a meal of chook is a great idea.
I let them out when i am home, evenings mostly, though sometimes on my lunch break too. When ever they see they line up by the door telling me they would like out now please.
I love listening to all their chicken noises too. They have started experimenting with the 'i just laid an egg' noise, but so far i have discovered no eggs. Wee teasers lol
 
TwistedFeathers said:
Thanks guys :) I have found one of the threads anyway, will go check out the other :)

And i'm looking forward to the adventures the chickens will take me on. They are we characters for sure. I have started letting them out of the coop, i started by putting up some netting in an area around the door, to get them used to going out, and then coming back inside to a food call(and a scoop of wheat lol)
Yesterday one of the girls realised she could duck under the netting, and took two friends with her. the others rushed back and forwards, and the rooster was almost beside himself. So i dashed around chicken proofing the back yard, and they spent a happy couple of hours poking, scratching and pecking around. I shut them up when i am not home, because the neighbour down the road brings home a couple of his farms mongrel dogs every day,and they come roaming in my section pissing on everything and trying to find my dog to start a scrap, and i don't want them to decided a meal of chook is a great idea.
I let them out when i am home, evenings mostly, though sometimes on my lunch break too. When ever they see they line up by the door telling me they would like out now please.
I love listening to all their chicken noises too. They have started experimenting with the 'i just laid an egg' noise, but so far i have discovered no eggs. Wee teasers lol
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Great that you are enjoying your new flock! Be very careful of dogs. Most of them think chickens are dinner and can harm and kill your birds. So never leave your babies out when you are not supervising.

As for the "egg song"...sometimes they can lay their eggs in nests outside somewhere and you have to go on an egg hunt to find them!! LOL Just so you know.
 
Yes, that is why i only let them when i am home. They get shut up before i leave, or go to bed. I don't trust the neighbours mongrel dogs.

And yes i know all about hunting for eggs, my friend has lots of chickens, and when they go away, i look after them. Their leghorns were really bad for it, they would duck out of the coop, and go anf hide their eggs every day. if they thought you had discovered their nest, they would move it.

And once they start laying i will let them out in afternoon only, as if they start laying around the property, i won't get any eggs, as the dog will find and eat them all
 
Thanks gander :)

I'm very quickly getting addicted to this forum. There's so much information here. It's amazing :)
 

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