LittleGecko
Songster
- Jul 5, 2014
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Hi and thank you!
The original four were in a local pet shop in a rabbit cage, the owner of the shop told me that they had been brought in by a lady who's boyfriend had bought them as day old chicks to feed live to a pet snake. (It is illegal to feed live chicks or mice to pet reptiles in the UK.) But she couldn't bear to see them killed and had been keeping them in a box in the kitchen.
I had already fallen in love with the four scruff part feathered chicks particularly a runty one who looked like they wouldn't survive.
To cut a long story short, we adopted them and they moved into a four foot glass fronted wooden vivarium in the sitting room and I got a coop for Christmas! We got three bantam hens and a cockerel to make a nice sized flock and the runty chick grew into the most beautiful, sweet natured brahma cockerel! The gang are... Lovejoy the brahma cockerel.
Tinker the pekin cockerel
Clara the brahma hen
Rose and Donna the easter eggers who with Clara and Lovejoy are the rescue birds.
Amy the pekin hen
And Martha and Harriet the wynnadotte bantam hens.
There are also four chicks a sultan a araucana a sablepoot and a brown one.
We are also taking in a small flock at the end of the month from a lady who is moving abroad.
So I am getting a second coop and a small duck house (two call duck also needed a home and the other half fell in love! ) before they arrive.
We also have a eggs incubating for a fellow chicken keeper who wants easter egger/brahma hens and a cockerel to add to her flock and another friend who wants more hens.
Final flock size should be about 16 and two ducks when the chicks have gone to their new homes at least until we get a smallholding which is the goal we are working towards! Until then it's selling eggs at the gate and hatching eggs for other local chicken keepers who want easter eggers and brahmas!
The original four were in a local pet shop in a rabbit cage, the owner of the shop told me that they had been brought in by a lady who's boyfriend had bought them as day old chicks to feed live to a pet snake. (It is illegal to feed live chicks or mice to pet reptiles in the UK.) But she couldn't bear to see them killed and had been keeping them in a box in the kitchen.
I had already fallen in love with the four scruff part feathered chicks particularly a runty one who looked like they wouldn't survive.
To cut a long story short, we adopted them and they moved into a four foot glass fronted wooden vivarium in the sitting room and I got a coop for Christmas! We got three bantam hens and a cockerel to make a nice sized flock and the runty chick grew into the most beautiful, sweet natured brahma cockerel! The gang are... Lovejoy the brahma cockerel.
Tinker the pekin cockerel
Clara the brahma hen
Rose and Donna the easter eggers who with Clara and Lovejoy are the rescue birds.
Amy the pekin hen
And Martha and Harriet the wynnadotte bantam hens.
There are also four chicks a sultan a araucana a sablepoot and a brown one.
We are also taking in a small flock at the end of the month from a lady who is moving abroad.
So I am getting a second coop and a small duck house (two call duck also needed a home and the other half fell in love! ) before they arrive.
We also have a eggs incubating for a fellow chicken keeper who wants easter egger/brahma hens and a cockerel to add to her flock and another friend who wants more hens.
Final flock size should be about 16 and two ducks when the chicks have gone to their new homes at least until we get a smallholding which is the goal we are working towards! Until then it's selling eggs at the gate and hatching eggs for other local chicken keepers who want easter eggers and brahmas!