Hurrah! Hurrah! At last I am qualified to start a thread in this most highly esteemed topic.

[Cadelaide]

We got a bluebell and a black rock on saturday and they are my birdies and I lovelovelove them.

[nappyzoneloveslindor]

aww are they your first? any piccys? what you keeping them in?

[meltedmarsbars]

Now you'll never be off here, posting about egg-bound birds, feeding treats, lice, mites, wing-clipping...

Just hope you don't have to do a Mr Fox post!

[nickelbabe]

yeay!


welcome to the club!

we are quite mad in here, you'll see.....

[Cadelaide]

Oh I'm hugely proud of myself. I've cobbled together a coop out of an old duck house (had to raise the roof) and they are fenced into the corner of the garden.They'll have the run of the whole garden for a couple of hours most days.

We have intermittently free range guinea pigs so the grass is already non-existent. I'm thinking of naming it the "back yard" as "back garden" is misleading.

[Cadelaide]

Yes, wing clipping.

Betty almost escaped over the fence on day one and so my sister (rspca) came and did a wing-clipping demonstration for us. I know very little about them, I've come to realise. I'm from a farming family but we never had hens.

I wonder why?