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 :)

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Oblina the coolest chicken ever!

I'm so stoked to share this post :) Guess who finally got her own chicken!! A few weeks back Daz, Lowie, Ben and I went down and visited this crazy bird lady on the Coast (only crazy because she has a lot of birds!!!) The boys have always had chickens but this was my first time getting to pick my own! We made our way to the pen with all the chickens inside and everyone had to grab one. I think Daz was first, he got himself an Isa brown which he named Ella (after a German backpacker?!?) lol. Lowie was second and got himself a black chicken with brown neck feathers, which he called Mumma, after Mother Teresa. Mumma put up a fight and we suspected she was going to be the most rowdy of the bunch! Next came Ben and he plucked up Pot Pie another Isa Brown! Finally came fee, yes lucky last (I'm not a very good chicken catcher) luckily along came Oblina, the best chicken ever who let me pick her up with no hassle or fight!

On the way back I was thinking I had picked the chicken that was going to get bullied, history had taught us that chickens have pecking orders! I had to rush off to work and when I arrived home I got the chicken update and guess who was the leader...Oblina!! Wow. She is the friendliest chicken, she comes over when you feed them and she is so cute and awesome! The other chickens are nice too but Oblina is the best (I hope none of the boys read my blog!). I have some serious chicken love!

P.S. you're officially cool if you know where the name Oblina comes!

Hint: kids show, ABC, 90s!

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The Ekka 2012

How long ago was the Ekka? Too long ago! But hey better late than never :) The Ekka for those not in the Queensland loop stands for exhibition and comes along once a year, really just a big fair with rides and show bags and animals and bad food, it's the best! Ben made me go on all the haunted houses with him which I resented him for..hate being scared! Luckily he accompanies me for all the cute things I want to do, I think it works out in the end :p

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