Sunday, December 22, 2013

Our Chickens

I love our chickens they make really great pets, they can be super friendly if you give them some love and they give you presents daily. Plus grain is cheap and they love eating left overs :)






We have four chickens and I have found that the two black ones seems to dominate but it's not as bad as other times when there was only one chicken getting picked on by the rest. I tend to give out lots of little piles of grain so there is no squabbling around feeding times :)

The lightest brown one, Ella did get clucky she would sit on the nest 24/7 it was sad to watch. With clucky chickens you kind of have to be cruel to be kind, we made her an isolation cage, the theory behind them is that they're so uncomfortably the chicken is put off being clucky. She was in her isolation cage for three days, with water and food but not much else and thank goodness it worked - she is now back to being her happy chicken self, joining in with the others :)

10 comments:

  1. they are very pretty and eggs is my favorite food in the all wide world <3

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  2. yay! eggs are so good hey, healthy, they fill you up and you can use them in lots of things :)

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  3. learnded something new today. I like chicken. will you eat them in the end??

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  4. we have two chooks :-) one of them is evil and pecks me and my dog haha.

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  5. Petra: I personally wouldn't want to eat them because I see them as my pets but it would probably make sense to eat them when they stop laying or even when they die but we have a habit of burying them with a proper graveyard. It's a valid thought that you have to kill what you eat though - would really change this World.

    oh no a pecking chicken! that would be awful, I think I saw Dr Harry deal with a pecking chicken but I can't remember the solution...oops!

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  6. I'm enjoying these pictures. Love the warm tones!

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  7. Oh my goodness - chickens!!! That egg shot is gorgeous.

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  8. If we ever find ourselves with a yard I would love to keep chickens. I'm sure the cats would love that too. :p

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