We did it!

[steelsy]

We took the plunge and we've got 3 chickens!!



a few more pics here;

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[Hilary B]

I used to have a trio like that (well similar, not quite the same).Not sure about the size of your bunch. Mine were enormous. The lady I got them fromm called them Cochins. The 2 hens were brilliant broodies, and the cockerel got nicknamed 'Cuddles', because he was the only chicken we ever had which actually LIKED being picked up and held. He used to stand on any available perch at about waist level and ask to be cuddled!

[armadillo]

well done!
watch out for your peas though -any veg they can get hold of will vanish!

[seasprout]

What clean, fluffy chickens, how lucky you are.

Also nice peas and Compost bin.

[Gazza]

What Sweeties!! The pleasure you'll get from them is everlasting.

[sunflower]

Congratulations! They are really beautiful. What names have you given them?

[di]

They're gorgeous!How old?

[steelsy]

The two smaller ones are now about 8 weeks old the larger one is nearly 3 months, so far they ahve left everything along in the vege patch, I'm monitoring it very closely though!!

We haven't called them anything yet - my boyfriend is just referring to them as The Stoopids! lol! They are very amusing!! They are getting quite tame already, when I go out after coming in from work they come running up to you (which looks quite amusing in itself!!) I really want to get some table birds as well - but not sure if they would all get on ok....

[Caz1234]

Oh they are gorgeous - they look like Cochins or Brahmas to me.

What kind are they Steelsy?

[steelsy]

Cochins I do believe. I've fallen in love with them - they really are adorable!!

[JackieAt]

very cute well done, look forward to eggs and alot of laughs.

You will end up with no plants tho!!!! we had a lovely garden and then got 4 chickens.....now we have a patch of grass but only because we fencedit off. the chooks have free run of the rest of the garden
ENJOY

[steelsy]

I quite fancy getting some table birds as well - but I've got to look into how much space etc they need and whether they will all get on!

[frias]

Steelsy your girls look lovely. I can't believe they haven't touched your veg though. I have had my 6 ex bats for 2 months and they have stripped my garden bare. Nothing is off limits to them, they eat anything and everything and only have to hear me go out of the the back door and I get mugged.
Something I do find strange is that they don't perch and sleep five in the nest box and one (the boss) on her own in the coop.

[steelsy]

I know - I found it quite strange, there is a pile of old weeds and twigs and stuff half way down the garden on some concrete and they spend most of thir time scratching aroun in that spreading it around. They like a bit of a roll in the herb bed - but even that isn't damaging anything, so I let them carry on. Think when it comes to planting things after this season though gonna have to gate the pacth off a bit.

[Lemon]

Hi Steelsy!

I think your hens are beautiful! May I ask where you got them from?
Are they lavender pekins? I like pekins but particularly buff or lemon cuckoo. I would like to get a buff bantam orpington too! I like the large buff orps - but I've seen them in the flesh & they are big scary fluff balls to a soon-to-be chicken keeper!! I've read that bovan goldline (meadowsweet ranger) are friendly birds and want one of those as well as a wheaten maran!

I am keen on the idea of table chooks too! The only place I think they are available for reasonable prices are :
cotswoldchickens (County gold table birds)
One day old – 2 weeks old ~ £1.75 each
2 weeks old – 4 weeks old ~ £2.00 each
4 weeks old – 6 weeks old ~ £2.25 each

cyril bason (Day old Ross/Cobb meat chicks)
12 chicks ~ £18.50 AH / £19.20 COX / £18.50 PX
I don't know what the difference is with AH/COX/PX

I think you keep meat chicks separate to the big girls as I've read you'll only make 'em go broody...