Firstly, I've been voyeuring all your gorgeous chook photos & have been dreaming of chooks every night.
After literally years & years of wanting chooks & being told NO by my husband, our local childcare centre had Henny Penny Hatching bring an incubator into the classroom for two weeks so the children could witness the hatching process.
At the end of the two weeks, the baby chicks were free to good homes & still my husband said NO. But........ my four old son came home & said "Daddy there is just one lonely little black chicken & all the others are white & yellow. I really want that little black chicken PLEEEAASSSSEEEEEEE!!!"
Dads response "Alright mate, I'll build you a coop!"
Can you believe it????
SO we brought home the only little black one, the smallest & youngest which happened to be blonde & 3 little brown chicks. So I'm told I have a Black Australorp, A Light Sussex & three brown Lohmans.
They are now 8 weeks old & living in the enormous coop with enclosed run that I've nicknamed The Bang-Cluc Hilton.
I'm pretty sure the black & the white one are both roosters but I've been told that at 8 weeks of age, it's too early to tell. Husband reckons he heard an attempt to crow this morning but not sure from who?!
Thanks for the wealth of information & community sharing that I've witnessed on the site to date. I'm sure I will be calling upon the collected wisdom of you experienced "chicken people" very soon.
Regards
Deanna
After literally years & years of wanting chooks & being told NO by my husband, our local childcare centre had Henny Penny Hatching bring an incubator into the classroom for two weeks so the children could witness the hatching process.
At the end of the two weeks, the baby chicks were free to good homes & still my husband said NO. But........ my four old son came home & said "Daddy there is just one lonely little black chicken & all the others are white & yellow. I really want that little black chicken PLEEEAASSSSEEEEEEE!!!"
Dads response "Alright mate, I'll build you a coop!"
Can you believe it????
SO we brought home the only little black one, the smallest & youngest which happened to be blonde & 3 little brown chicks. So I'm told I have a Black Australorp, A Light Sussex & three brown Lohmans.
They are now 8 weeks old & living in the enormous coop with enclosed run that I've nicknamed The Bang-Cluc Hilton.
I'm pretty sure the black & the white one are both roosters but I've been told that at 8 weeks of age, it's too early to tell. Husband reckons he heard an attempt to crow this morning but not sure from who?!
Thanks for the wealth of information & community sharing that I've witnessed on the site to date. I'm sure I will be calling upon the collected wisdom of you experienced "chicken people" very soon.
Regards
Deanna
and Welcome to BYC!
