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

[Fancychooklady]

We have the freakiest lightening here. Our daughter and dog were struck by lightening about 5 years ago. Since then a tree down the back took a direct hit and we were out on the verandah last summer when we saw the lightening hit the hill and start a fire. Naturally our daughter is a little ' lightening shy ' .

 

[vehve]

There, that took a while to upload. The egg song really is a communal event here, everyone seems to chime in. The video is a prelude to these, isn't that just a beautiful sight?


I don't know if this is that different from how other people's flocks sound, but I think it really sounds like a flock of demented geese.

 

[cwrite]

I hope the storm doesn't get too dramatic Fancy & that your new truck has an uneventful first night home!
Thanks for the egg song clips Ben & Vehve. They are so funny. I should have listened to a few before I heard my first egg 'song' because I expected something far prettier. Boy was I surprised. The other things I didn't know to expect was how much bigger poops get suddenly after the pullets start laying. O.O

 

[vehve]

I hope the storm doesn't get too dramatic Fancy & that your new truck has an uneventful first night home!
Thanks for the egg song clips Ben & Vehve. They are so funny. I should have listened to a few before I heard my first egg 'song' because I expected something far prettier. Boy was I surprised. The other things I didn't know to expect was how much bigger poops get suddenly after the pullets start laying. O.O

That's a good thing though. I find that cleaning has become much easier as more and more girls are coming online. They poop bigger poops more seldom. At least in the spots where it matters.

Do I remember wrong, or did you have an olive egger among your flock too?

Oh, and I just got a note in the mail saying there's a big package on it's way to me, and it should be available for pick up tomorrow. Hopefully our mini eggs won't fall through the egg skelter. I'm pretty amazed that it's here already, it was shipped from Britain on Friday. Perhaps the Royal Mail has advanced to the Bronze age, last time I ordered something from there they were most certainly still in the Stone age. Took two weeks for the package to arrive, no tracking outside of England available, and other silly things.

 

[cwrite]

Nope - no olive eggs for me. I'll just have to drool over yours Vehve. I have white, 2 variations of pink, yellowy cream & brown. You are far too critical of the Royal mail service. The point is that the package arrived & as someone originally from Africa, I still find that a wonderful novelty. : )

 

[vehve]

Nope - no olive eggs for me. I'll just have to drool over yours Vehve. I have white, 2 variations of pink, yellowy cream & brown. You are far too critical of the Royal mail service. The point is that the package arrived & as someone originally from Africa, I still find that a wonderful novelty. : )

Well this time it was even only 5 GBP for shipping, last time I ordered a 100m roll of paracord, and paid 12GBP for shipping - for that price I think 2 weeks and no tracking is a bit ridiculous. But you're right, it's nice that it even reaches all the way. A more positive way to look at it would be to think that you can get a nice surprise in the mail at any point. That's the way I see it with stuff I buy from China or Hongkong - but then again the shipping is free too.

 

[Bens-Hens]

We are on flood watch tonight, got the cows up in the Nick of time, they had to wade chest deep for the last 50 m. Heard these loud rumblings, not sure what it was , might have been thunder. The winds have been 180 k, I was a bit worried about the truck blowing away. Wow yep it was thunder , there's the lightening.

Crikey mate, truck should be fine on road base, but the wind sounds pretty wild. Hope to hear from you tomorrow reporting all is well with you, the land and animals.

I hope the storm doesn't get too dramatic Fancy & that your new truck has an uneventful first night home!
Thanks for the egg song clips Ben & Vehve. They are so funny. I should have listened to a few before I heard my first egg 'song' because I expected something far prettier. Boy was I surprised. The other things I didn't know to expect was how much bigger poops get suddenly after the pullets start laying. O.O

Yeah, I thought hens were quiet and roosters were noisy...Bah, didn't I learn something!

That's a good thing though. I find that cleaning has become much easier as more and more girls are coming online. They poop bigger poops more seldom. At least in the spots where it matters.

Do I remember wrong, or did you have an olive egger among your flock too?

Oh, and I just got a note in the mail saying there's a big package on it's way to me, and it should be available for pick up tomorrow. Hopefully our mini eggs won't fall through the egg skelter. I'm pretty amazed that it's here already, it was shipped from Britain on Friday. Perhaps the Royal Mail has advanced to the Bronze age, last time I ordered something from there they were most certainly still in the Stone age. Took two weeks for the package to arrive, no tracking outside of England available, and other silly things.

We were hoping Olive would lay olive eggs being BV cross Araucana, but no, she lays Araucana sized eggs, but they are cream coloured.

Glad to hear the skelter is there already, can take a fair time for stuff to get here from the UK, even Honk Kong takes up to 3 weeks. Saying that, I buy stuff off Wiggle and that can be here in a week if I pay for premium service.

 

[vehve]

Wilma just spent 15 minutes in the nest, but alas, no egg. Maybe she'll still go back after her bath. And it's a new day tomorrow. She's very close though.

Ben, those olive eggs are real purdy to look at. You need some sort of olive egger in your coop. Fire up the bator, and fetch those unicorn eggs too.

 

[Bens-Hens]

I think this last batch of chicks will be our last for a while.

The coop will be pretty much maxed out once they grow up and join the flock. Speaking of the little ones, they turn 6 weeks tomorrow, they are all feathered up and have spent most days outside now, and they have been coming in but not heat at night for about a week. Only change to that has been driving rain, I guess I am a big softy when it comes to wet chickens.

Tonight might be their last night in my office (and the crowd says YAY!) then I can give it one last proper clean and have it back to normal.

They grow up so fast.

 

[Bens-Hens]

We have a new record! One was laid under the roost last night though, but 8 in a day is still eight!