Our introduction to keeping chickens, the high's, the lows and pics of our journey.

[vehve]

Ben, you need energy to have the strength to do physical activities, but after super active training is decreased, often people tend to become a bit chubby. Loads of ex-hockey players working as commentators on TV here who have gone up about 20 kilos. I have nothing to say about diet though, I love food, and often make quite unhealthy stuff. Problem is, I seem to keep forgetting that I should go out for a run too

Luckily, so far my metabolism seems to be keeping up to par.

I love the slight cultural differences in terminology, most of my English is America-influenced, so an image of you walking around the coop with an actual flaming torch popped up in my head reading that.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Lol, I do most of my chicken things by torch light. We were just in coronation cottage , me with my torch and hubby with his headlamp, cutting some leg bands off when the dog chased a possum up the Shute. One of the girls fell off the roost and down the ramp. The possum came within an inch of its life when it jumped over the dogs head.

 

[vehve]

Fancy, I've been wondering about that. I might be online at ten in the evening, and by my understanding you're six hours ahead of me, but still you're already awake. When do you sleep, and what do you do in the day if all the coop operations are done with a FLASHLIGHT?

By the way, do you Ozzies have bonnets and boots or hoods and trunks? And do you eat Herbs or eeerbs? Somewhere I read about the pronunciation of that one, in the States it's "eeerbs", because it suites the American accent better, while the Brits say "HHerbs". Here the explanation was "Because it's got a f***ing H in it".

 

[CB and CG]

Fancy, I've been wondering about that. I might be online at ten in the evening, and by my understanding you're six hours ahead of me, but still you're already awake. When do you sleep, and what do you do in the day if all the coop operations are done with a FLASHLIGHT?

By the way, do you Ozzies have bonnets and boots or hoods and trunks? And do you eat Herbs or eeerbs? Somewhere I read about the pronunciation of that one, in the States it's "eeerbs", because it suites the American accent better, while the Brits say "HHerbs". Here the explanation was "Because it's got a f***ing H in it".

In Tasmania where Fancychooklady lives it is currently 8pm
In Western Australia where Ben and I live it is currently 6pm

We have bonnets and boots and we eat Herbs

Hope that answers your questions

Good luck with your hatch Ben!

 

[Fancychooklady]

It's 8 pm here and after dark is the only time I can catch some of them. I grow herbs in my garden and I ' pop ' the bonnet to check the oil and keep the oil in the boot. Drugstore is another one, we call it the chemist.
And yes I keep strange hours. An unfortunate result of spending a lot of time in hospital. Those nurses come in and out all night ! Bloods at 5-45 am everyday.

 

[vehve]

Ah, I was off by an hour then, so seven hours ahead.

Here we have konepelti "machine tin" and tavaratila "thing space". A torch is taskulamppu "pocket lamp". And right now I'm on my kannettava tietokone "carriable knowledge machine". Lovely when you do direct translations. And while the male chicken can be a dirty word over there, here it's the egg. Don't go walking with your egg in your hand in Finnish.

Ben, may all your hatchlings be pullets.

 

[vehve]

Fancy, how do I get my girlfriend to do that? After nine years of me claiming to be a feminist and telling her that I believe in equality of the sexes, it's still me who has to change the tires every Spring and Fall. Here we buy our medicine at the apteekki. That one we actually got from the Greeks I believe.

Ah, those medical professionals can be a pain, inform them that you need your beauty sleep. Or ask for some Propofol.

 

[chickensnbees]

Whew! I have finally finished reading this entire thread. Hi, Ben! I popped over to check you out at Oz's recommendation and I'm so glad I did! I have really enjoyed your story so far and everyone else's contributions are so entertaining. This is better than any television programming - a drama, documentary, comedy, nature, travel and romance rolled into one! Can't wait to tune in daily for updates (no pressure on the daily bit)!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Ah, I was off by an hour then, so seven hours ahead.

Here we have konepelti "machine tin" and tavaratila "thing space". A torch is taskulamppu "pocket lamp". And right now I'm on my kannettava tietokone "carriable knowledge machine". Lovely when you do direct translations. And while the male chicken can be a dirty word over there, here it's the egg. Don't go walking with your egg in your hand in Finnish.

Ben, may all your hatchlings be pullets.

 

[vehve]

Whew! I have finally finished reading this entire thread. Hi, Ben! I popped over to check you out at Oz's recommendation and I'm so glad I did! I have really enjoyed your story so far and everyone else's contributions are so entertaining. This is better than any television programming - a drama, documentary, comedy, nature, travel and romance rolled into one! Can't wait to tune in daily for updates (no pressure on the daily bit)!

That's quite a read! If you find a new interesting thread, please mention it. Lately I've been reading some of these chicken rescue people's threads and rolling my head. I could really use something more intelligent to read. I have nothing against improving the conditions of production animals, but paying a battery hen farm 10 dollars per spent chicken and saving them the trouble of disposing of it seems a bit counterproductive to me. Oh crap, now I'm about to start a rant on vegans, so I'll just hold my tongue.