Chickens, now she's done it! (cute chick content)
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netherfield said:
You'll soon find out which are the cocks, their combs will start growing and turning red, 5/6 weeks should do it. Whereas the pullets will not comb up until 16/18 weeks.
Very good advice, gratefully received, thanks.Is the handle Netherfield due to being from said area near Nottingham by any chance?
netherfield said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Very good advice, gratefully received, thanks.
Is the handle Netherfield due to being from said area near Nottingham by any chance?
No, I've always been in West Yorshire, it's a name from a local map though.Is the handle Netherfield due to being from said area near Nottingham by any chance?
k me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart. Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Ah I see, wondered if you were a fellow Notts poster. On the subject of maturing chicks - and considering, they're only 4 (? I think) days old - Sarah was cooing away today that some of their wings are now developing, to the point they can flap them. New born they were just ridges attached to their chests. fk me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart.
k me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart. You guys don't seem just the right sorts to be keeping livestock. I sincerely hope you enjoy the experience.
prand said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Ah I see, wondered if you were a fellow Notts poster. On the subject of maturing chicks - and considering, they're only 4 (? I think) days old - Sarah was cooing away today that some of their wings are now developing, to the point they can flap them. New born they were just ridges attached to their chests. fk me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart.
k me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart. You guys don't seem just the right sorts to be keeping livestock. I sincerely hope you enjoy the experience.
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Any hen experts on here. We've been trying to establish Mum hens breed. I've narrowed it down and think she's a Rhode Island White. Can anyone confirm?
Don't think it's Rhode Island White, could be a Light Sussex, but then it could be a cross of various breeds, same as your chicks are.I wouldn't recommend straw for their bedding by the way. IIRC it's a lot more friendly to the various mites that they can get (including the horrible red mite which we had in our hen house).
I used to use wood shavings from our local horse supplies place, mixed up with a few scoops of diatomaceous earth (which I also used to rub around their perches).
Even with all that we still got red mites so had to periodically clean the whole house with anti-red mite spray.
I used to use wood shavings from our local horse supplies place, mixed up with a few scoops of diatomaceous earth (which I also used to rub around their perches).
Even with all that we still got red mites so had to periodically clean the whole house with anti-red mite spray.
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
prand said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Ah I see, wondered if you were a fellow Notts poster. On the subject of maturing chicks - and considering, they're only 4 (? I think) days old - Sarah was cooing away today that some of their wings are now developing, to the point they can flap them. New born they were just ridges attached to their chests. fk me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart.
k me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart. You guys don't seem just the right sorts to be keeping livestock. I sincerely hope you enjoy the experience.
citizensm1th said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
prand said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Ah I see, wondered if you were a fellow Notts poster. On the subject of maturing chicks - and considering, they're only 4 (? I think) days old - Sarah was cooing away today that some of their wings are now developing, to the point they can flap them. New born they were just ridges attached to their chests. fk me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart.
k me, even by my usual stiff lip cold standards, man, they're cute ASF. The way they drink, throwing their necks back to swallow like George Best with a Vody bottle is enough alone to melt your heart. You guys don't seem just the right sorts to be keeping livestock. I sincerely hope you enjoy the experience.
You sound like one of the 80 something year olds from the allotments, who eagerly await an opportunity to wring the neck of something. Wait a minute, don't tell me one of them has become au fait with the internet and Pistonheads?
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
You're being prickish. Chickens can serve many purposes, meat, eggs, pets. The 8 I had as a kid were pets, the allotments neighbours are pets, and these will be.
You sound like one of the 80 something year olds from the allotments, who eagerly await an opportunity to wring the neck of something. Wait a minute, don't tell me one of them has become au fait with the internet and Pistonheads?
love that argument it is similar to the vegan one and just as perverse.You sound like one of the 80 something year olds from the allotments, who eagerly await an opportunity to wring the neck of something. Wait a minute, don't tell me one of them has become au fait with the internet and Pistonheads?
why do you think humans domesticated wild animals all those years ago?
citizensm1th said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
You're being prickish. Chickens can serve many purposes, meat, eggs, pets. The 8 I had as a kid were pets, the allotments neighbours are pets, and these will be.
You sound like one of the 80 something year olds from the allotments, who eagerly await an opportunity to wring the neck of something. Wait a minute, don't tell me one of them has become au fait with the internet and Pistonheads?
love that argument it is similar to the vegan one and just as perverse.You sound like one of the 80 something year olds from the allotments, who eagerly await an opportunity to wring the neck of something. Wait a minute, don't tell me one of them has become au fait with the internet and Pistonheads?
why do you think humans domesticated wild animals all those years ago?
Just because you can't take it for a walk on a lead doesn't mean it can't be pet.
If you can't just be happy for something that has given and continues to give my wife great enjoyment then bugger off to a farming thread or similar.
Batleyred said:
We use to keep 15 thousand egg layers many years ago, now i have a nice selection of birds of a few varieties and keep my family in eggs every week.
Yesterdays collection
Enjoy your proper eggs you do really tase the difference.
Indeed, you do. For some time we've been getting them off the allotment neighbour, beautiful! Fresh Duck eggs are even nicer. Yesterdays collection
Enjoy your proper eggs you do really tase the difference.
Our neighbour (farmer) keeps free range chickens and clips their wings to stop them wandering too far. A couple of days ago they bought some old hens from a local chicken farm (for £2 each) and let them out, meaning to clip them in a few days after they had 'settled in'. Unfortunately, one of them hopped over our four foot fence into our garden and was duly 'dispatched' by our Springer Spaniel 
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