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Anyone else keep chickens?

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Charlee · 03/08/2006 19:08

We got our chooks today, i've always wanted them since i was a kid but the council always said no, now were in a private rent our landlord said yes!

We rescued 4 lovley battery hens we called them Hilda, Davina, Chook and Dave (DP named one Dave even though they are all girls)

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AlienEars · 03/08/2006 19:28

Yes, three bantams here, living a very happy life at the end of the garden.

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Charlee · 03/08/2006 22:02

Wow someone answered!

We have run on the mill rhodies here, i so sad i cant stop going to check them! There's no way a fox could get in but im worried about rats, i have proofed it all i can but i feel maternal over them

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jollyfolly · 03/08/2006 22:14

not chickens but took ownership of two beautiful ducks on tuesday.... they are tuely fab! Ds thinks they are amazing and keeps running up to them finger pointing going 'woof'.... everything (at 14 months)is woof right now. It's great having poultry in the garden isn't it!

tensing · 07/08/2006 09:26

Yes we have 5 White Poland Silkie Bantams and also 3 Khaki Campbell ducks, all living happily together.

Great aren't they, better than the telly

BabyTed · 14/09/2006 09:05

No but have always wanted some chickens and would love to have some battery hens. Do they need a lot of room and are there many chicken rescue organisations about?

MoonFrog · 30/09/2006 22:02

Currently we have 17, but this will be reduced once we've sussed which of this years chicks are cockerels (they'll be going to a new home in the freezer )

MrsMuddle · 30/09/2006 22:50

Not yet, but we're in the middle of building a hen house. We've done the run, but we first thought of getting them three years ago and this is as far as we've got. We'll probably get some in the spring, and I'll come back on for advice then. I'm SO looking forward to getting them. We'll probably get silkies. Anyone know much about them?

jasper · 30/09/2006 23:21

I had 8 fab free range ones.
Fox killed 7 in one swoop in broad daylight.
bring back foxhunting!

WishICouldGiveUpWork · 02/10/2006 22:53

Am desperate for chickens-have been since a child but have some archaic covenant on our house which dictates no poultry or farm animal to be kept.GArden is too small anyway really-oh ho wI lng for an orchard with free range chooks

handlemecarefully · 02/10/2006 23:11

3 buff sussex...

CorpseBride · 02/10/2006 23:55

We have Light Sussex and some Neerys (?). Will be getting some Speckledys in a couple of weeks.

Chickens are brilliant. DCs love them. Ours live in a converted outdoor loo with a chicken-wire fence run about 12ft sq. But we let them roam around the garden & paddocks from midday until dinner-time, when they gather around the backdoor (just to make sure I don't forget them and the fox comes)!

handlemecarefully · 03/10/2006 14:07

Don't you mind the chicken shit near your back door? Mine have a 50ft square fenced off area; I used to let them totally free range but I got fed up with chicken poo on the patio where the children play in the sandpit etc

CorpseBride · 03/10/2006 16:57

HMC - Not that much chicken poo out the back - besides we're more rough farmyard than patio & decking so perhaps we just don't notice it as much!

Loshad · 04/10/2006 11:28

38 free range chickens (very free range - where are all my eggs?) - too many males though. Time for the freezer too i think, but how to dispatch them - will the local abbatoir die laughing if i come in with half a dozen?

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