CHICKENS!!!!

[The Vinyl Adventure]

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[Puffin]

Why is it that pictures of f*cking chickens are all nice and clear and the pictures of hifi are shite! Get a grip man!

[Joe]

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[Mike]

Giv uz an egg! :)

[Marco]

Give us a McChicken sandwich!! :eyebrows:

Marco.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

They are taken with the same camera buddy!

We had a broken egg the first night.. Then with a slightly soft shell at one end today, so hopefully a good one tomo

[colinB]

Is that chicken house sponsored by Nandos?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

I did think I was a touch ironic... But then we have called the one in the top picture golden delicious ....

[Barry]

They are taken with the same camera buddy!

We had a broken egg the first night.. Then with a slightly soft shell at one end today, so hopefully a good one tomo

So you have made an omelette then? How many chickens do you have?

Regards

[The Vinyl Adventure]

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Gurty, big momma and golden delicious!

[Alex_UK]

Hamish - lovely, but I really think you need to take some stronger fox prevention precautions - presuming they are kept in their house overnight, is the big door bolted at top and bottom as well as the middle? Trust me, foxes are evil bast@rds who kill just for fun, so do everything you think you need to to protect them, and then double it... Trust someone who lives out in the sticks and has webbed feet... I would hate to hear more bad pet news...

Anyway, enough doom and gloom! Nice one. Now to choose the speakers for your end of the agreement... :)

[aquapiranha]

Looks like you got that rather eggstravaganly (!) decorated hen house from the same shop that MP got his duck des res from! Nice hens though.


I like birds, here is my massive cock...(!)

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[twelvebears]

Hamish - lovely, but I really think you need to take some stronger fox prevention precautions - presuming they are kept in their house overnight, is the big door bolted at top and bottom as well as the middle? Trust me, foxes are evil bast@rds who kill just for fun, so do everything you think you need to to protect them, and then double it... Trust someone who lives out in the sticks and has webbed feet... I would hate to hear more bad pet news...

Anyway, enough doom and gloom! Nice one. Now to choose the speakers for your end of the agreement... :)

Hamish, having chickens ourselves, I have to absolutely agree with Alex.

Firstly the house itself is way too small to keep them confined to for anything other than overnight (you should consider 1 square meter per chicken the absolute minimum run area) and your run is in no way secure enough to leave them in unattended.

As it is, while you're not there, you either have to confine them to far too small a space or run the very real risk of coming back to dead/missing chickens and a load of feathers.

Whatever the house makers claim the house (in numbers of chickens) is total crap apart from overnight sleeping space. Yes it's better than batter hen conditions but it's still inadequate. Plus of course it will mean you have to spend far more time cleaning the house out.

I'll post some pics tonight of the setup we have for our three girls, and I should point out that I think we have a far smaller garden than you by the looks of things, so it's not too hard to do.

Actually if you look here you can see a bit of it anyway

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Having chickens is great fun though. They're very entertaining and the fresh eggs are awesome. :)

If you don't want to/can't keep moving the run around the garden (they will reduce the lawn to mud if you don't), then my tip is to pick an area for the run, lay paving slabs over it and then cover the slabs with a thick layer of bark chippings. This gives them something to scratch around in, makes the run easy to clean and stops the area turning to a mud bath when it's wet.

[goraman]

Have you named them yet?
Let me give you some name suggestions?
Extra Crispy, Nugget,Curry,BBQ.

[Rare Bird]

They are taken with the same camera buddy!

We had a broken egg the first night.. Then with a slightly soft shell at one end today, so hopefully a good one tomo

Hamish if your getting soft eggs you need to put some grit down.

[Macca]

Bunch of bloody hippies!:lolsign: