Hi everyone, We are Victoria and Scott and from Hamilton, New Zealand and go tour first two Black Orpington pullets in November last year (just before our summer). We named them Polly and Penny. Polly was the first to lay and did so on March 6th this year. She stopped over the winter months (June, July, August). Penny started laying in about August, when Polly started again. So now we had two hens! Sadly Penny became unwell and on the vets advice we had to put her to sleep. This was last week. The vet thought she had a blockage. So now Polly is all alone. We are going to try to get her to hatch some fertile eggs so we are eagerly watching out for any signs of broodiness, or as we call it, going on the cluck. We believe this is better then trying to introduce new hens.
BYC has been a great source of information for us over the past year. We love having chickens. I was always against getting chickens, until Scott, who had had chickens as a boy, talked me into it. he suggested Black Orpingtons. As luck would have it there were two pullets for sale just down the road from us - only about a kilometer away. So before we knew it was had chooks. The place we go them from kindly held on to them while Scott, with the neighbours help,built a house - we had an old dog kennel run and used that for them too. I absolutely love havng chickens, I had no idea what wonderful personalities they have. I don'tthink I will be without them now.
I took a little video of them in February this year....
BYC has been a great source of information for us over the past year. We love having chickens. I was always against getting chickens, until Scott, who had had chickens as a boy, talked me into it. he suggested Black Orpingtons. As luck would have it there were two pullets for sale just down the road from us - only about a kilometer away. So before we knew it was had chooks. The place we go them from kindly held on to them while Scott, with the neighbours help,built a house - we had an old dog kennel run and used that for them too. I absolutely love havng chickens, I had no idea what wonderful personalities they have. I don'tthink I will be without them now.
I took a little video of them in February this year....
