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Awww, I can just imagine them with the rabbit!

*secretly glad that "Tart" isn't called "Pie" and "Cluck" isn't a "Korma" lol*
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I'm sure I'll bore the pants off you all talking about them Glenys lol.

I'm loving having them here......the fact that they've befriended my giant rabbit is an unexpected bonus too xx

They are beautiful little things, aren't they. I remember when we had chickens when I was a girl (shaddup you lot!) and I, too, was smitten. Just you wait when one of them gets broody and you may have to buy some fertilised eggs for her. Awww, those chicks .............
Anyway, enjoy your little girls (well, both lots really!) and keep us posted, won't you.
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Thanks everyone.

I have wasted the majority of the day sitting outside and watching them peck about lol. They've settled in so well. They've even made friends with the giant rabbit lol.

I still can't believe I have a chicken called Tart though lmao.

Can't wait for them to start laying but they are still pretty young ish.........between 12 and 16 wks old apparently.......he has so many he lost track of them .......so I think I have a while to wait for that.

I'm seriously considering going to get another two. I'm smitten lol xx

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Nice to hear you have got your girls, your family will thoroughly enjoy them.

heres a website to make you chuckle

http://www.rickschicken.co.uk/

*gets loaf and milk ready to go to Muffy's for tea*

Right then, scrambled eggs on toast here we come! lol
(Yeah, I know, they haven't started laying yet lol but I can dream, can't I).
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Morning Muffy, I hope your girls have settled in nicely.

Have fun with them,

Gillie XX

Thanks Stray. They're really sweet. If they are laying by the Peterborough meet I'll bring you some eggs lol xx

i asked dog for a veggie patch next year and he said ya still nto geting no chickens how rude! wen i only wanted fresh veg lol

aw enjoy them hun xxxxx

I'd love to do that Mick but the risk is the chicks may turn out to be Cockerels..........I heard the racket they were making at the place I collected the ladies from yesterday............NO WAY Pedro lololol.

Green shells though? Really?

Glad I escaped the slap Glenys lololol xx

Green- yes - only the shells!
The South American Auracana breed.

ive just eaten my chooks eggs you will really see a difference xxxx

Green? Eurghhhhh .......... lol
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What you need now Muffy is a rooster, so you can start breeding your own!I I just happen to have a spare rooster that I would be happy to email to you- progeny guaranteed to lay green eggs!

xxxx mick

Well hellooooo! Oi, Muffy, have I got a reputation or something ..........? :-))

Oh, bless! lol those names. All I would say is that when you have to call them in of an evening, can you imagine calling out "Cluck! Tart! Beddybyes!"

Mind you, you've escaped a clip round the ear this time my girl! lol
Oh - just one more thing. You know what they say, don't you: I'll have a Cluck, to give me Luck, I'll have some pie to make me cry, I'll have some cream to make me dream, I'll have a Tart to make me f-f-f-f-



feel better
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The ladies have arrived..........and they're now all boxed up and cosy for the night and seem happy now they've settled a bit.

Eldest is chuffed to bits.........sadly my novel name ideas didn't go down well and she has christened them *cluck* and *tart* ( i really don't know why but she HAD just eaten a Jam tart so I HOPE that's why lolololol)

*hopes Glenys doesn't send a cyber slap over for those names* lololol xx

what about getting a turkey to

you can never buy a turkey egg

when you need one pmsl

think of the novelty value

and the girls faces when mr gobbles arrived lol

Like the names - we had one called "Paxo" - LOL! As long as they are cleaned out regularly and any left-over food is cleared away daily there'll be no rats. Foxes are another matter - you will need electric fence or something Alcatraz-like. We lost our "girls" to a fox a couple of months ago and my 9-year-old is still upset whenever she sees the fox in the garden.

i think you have to judge about electric fenceing

i have no doubt it dose the job..

i my self havent got it .all my fencing is solid steel in 20 years of having chickens i have only ever lost one to a fox .at that was my fault .i know when the foxs are about my dogs go mad...........but i know they cannot get to my chickens .the reason i choose solid steel was having terriers .given 1/2 the chance they would eat them themselfs. uncooked of cause.

the dog will only go near it once