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mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 10:08 am    Post subject: I can't stop buying poultry Reply with quote
    

Why is this?........Is this a recognised illness, or the equivalent of a weak form of man flu?

Came home from the Charente last week & just happened to drive past the local "co-op" & saw the chicken man...stopped, came home with 2 lovely grey hens with blue legs...

today 2 Sussex hens & 2 goslings, & was offered Leghorns...so of course I have to go back next week to make sure I'm not missing out

Goslings are currently in a straw filled box in front of the telly because it cold & raining outside

Nicky cigreen



Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9702
Location: Devon, uk
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



you got it bad!

VM



Joined: 23 Nov 2007
Posts: 1748
Location: Lincolnshire
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Currently my 'illness' is under control, only played out in fantasy, as have not yet built chicken run at new place - and in past limited by space as will be here too. But if had loads of room for them, can imagine it could get out of hand.

My tastes are fairly specific - so much so that I have more or less (hum) persuaded partner of the necessity of buying hens from Garden Hens in Cheshire, where we got our previous ones from, because I liked them so much - even though it is a bit of a way from where we now are in Lincs. But I can always find another breed that it would be really, really good to have. Agony at the moment trying to work out exactly which six chickens to get when we have got the run up. I know it is sensible to start with only six so I can add younger ones in a year or two, blah, blah - and there are only two of us to eat the eggs, plus a few friends visiting - but Oh, how to choose...?


mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

was just watching the news with the goslings drying off inside my jacket

they seem to have a "wet dog" type smell without the dog element...they've taken a shine to the patchwork quilt that my sister made that's covering the sofa

are geese any good at housework? someone out there must know

Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



I tend every year to think I am getting over my addiction and then one or two die and I see a nice bantam somewhere...

mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

now you see I saw an ad for some Silkies a while back "free to good home" & had to be restrained as I'd have been in the car & down the road to get them in a trice

is there some form of sedative to dull the senses connected with chicken purchase?

TTouch Homestead



Joined: 13 Oct 2011
Posts: 703
Location: Cardigan, West Wales
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ahem I went to collect a few extra hens for eggs as people are stopping by more often and I ran out! I came back with everything the guy had, as basically he needed them gone due to divorce and they were such funky breeds, and I ended up with 3 quail too LOL and I am such a soft touch- in the head!

So if anyone nearby feels the need to relieve me of any...I have way too many cockerels to be able to do them justice...as I still have my handsome RIR Ginger and Pepe my Bresse boy...

Polish hens and "Beaker" their cockerel- I love these, and am so tempted to keep them. Beaker is ace.
White silkie hens and their cockerel- probably going to keep these in the hope of broodies...although so far, nada.
Cochin hens and 2 cockerels- lovely gentle birds. Look lovely in the orchard when they run their pantaloons flap in the breeze!
2 white splash Cochin cockerels- gorgeous brothers- nicknamed Su and Mo
Black Maran cockerel- Syd. Lovely boy, really handsome and gentle.
White Splash Maran cockerel- same hatch as Syd but they don't get on so live apart.
Chalkhill blue hens- now happily living with Ginger and my rescue hens. Going to keep these I think as they lay lovely blue eggs.


Think I ended up with closer to 20...
Yours,
Nell the not so stealth chicken admirer

mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

yep I think I'm headed that way too

judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 13 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yes, it is a recognised illness

chez



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 13 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


TTouch Homestead



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Location: Cardigan, West Wales
PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 13 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


Nell Merionwen



Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire
PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 13 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've been forced to curb my enthusiasm. I had 5 embden geese, 5 white ducks, 5 kc ducks, 7 call ducks, a variety (about 20) of dorking chooks, 6 black rocks, 3 lavender pekins, 2 lemon stablepoops, 7quail, 3 milliflure pekins, 1 faverolle, 6 heinz and 1 pecky.
I now have 1red dorking, 2 pekins and a handfull of quail. When the garden is sorted and we can afford some local land I shall get going again (I can't see that being soon though)

mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 13 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I read 2 lemon stablepoops as 2 level tablespoons

are you making these names up?

Nell Merionwen



Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire
PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 13 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ooh and Maggie the Maran. The sablepoots were renamed Stablepoops by my littlest child
If you've not seen them google lemon sablepoots. They are the pretties chickens ever. When the garden is more under control I shall add a trio. Six or seven is my limit as they will get about a half to a third of the garden and we can't give up more than that. Any less would still be within regs but I don't think it would make for happy birds. Miss my ducks most of all
ETA I also hatched four East Indian Black Ducks. They are stunning birds but a cat got to them when they were about eight weeks. They had not been outside long.

mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 13 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think I prefer stablepoops...has a certain something

I was sitting in bed this morning drinking horrible coffee & watching 2 little yellow gosling heads poking out from the box on the window sill


as they were squeaking at me in a surprisingly loud high pitched voice

not sure it gets better than that (apart from changing to decent coffee that is)

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