Lets see how many chooks we have.......

[super trowel]

2449 - one of the black chickens got killed

[julesapple]

2449 minus 5 Serama youngsters who moved to Wales today

2444

[jps]

new member here, i have 12 chickens so

2456

[frias]

Welcome to chooksaholic jps.

[jps]

Welcome to chooksaholic jps.

thank you for the welcome

[super trowel]

2455 - lost another one :'( one of my polish frizzles have been eaten by whatever is getting in.


She was named marmalade, bless her she was always the first to come over for a hug

[nellie-m]

2454 - one young Sicilian hen that had still enjoyed her breakfast yesterday, pecking the others away, looked a bit weary over the day. No clear symptoms but I didn't like the look of her and found she had lost quite some weight already, so I started a course of antibiotics in the evening but she passed away around noon today. Pity it's Saturday or I would have taken her to the vet's for a p.m. but thankfully the others are all fine.

[RichmondHens]

When they want to go, they go. We've just despatched our Minorca cock. Perfectly ok at beginning of week, looked a bit off colour middle of week but I put it down to hassle from some of our meat cocks next door - he was a timid soul. Yesterday picked him up and realised he was very light. Today he was hardly moving and he his comb had gone dark. We had been umming and aahing about getting rid anyway as his tail was slightly askew and didn't want to breed this fault into future generations. Still, am kicking myself for not picking up on how poorly he was earlier than yesterday.

So 2453.

[Glutton4...]

Down to 2452. A batty turned up her toes in the night, RIP Batty.

[hollychap]

i have 2 a black legbar and what was supposed to be a gold legbar but it lays brown eggs so its up to 2454

[elizajay]

Plus one dark chocolate brown silkie/ bantam Orpington cross with a top knot - 2455. I don't think I added them when they hatched knowing that some might have to go if they were boys.
Her brothers went to their new home on a nearby farm tonight and settled into a barn with a mix of large fowl and bantams and a turkey stag.
They aren't actually farmers, but he likes birds and complained that somebody asked him if he would like a "few" ducks recently and gave him 30. I was lucky to make my getaway without some of the ducks! As we closed up the chook barn, the geese gathered around the door of the barn next door. My ex-boys will stay in the barn for the rest of the winter and free range in the summer.

[jessmorris]

2455 minus one lovely Amrock cockerel who has gorn a-free-rangin' in the next village with a mixed bag of Legbar/Barnevelder/Sussex ladees....he's gonna be one happy boy once his hormones kick in!!

[jessmorris]

2454 minus 2 young Wyandottes, one lemon cuckoo girlie and a lovely gold laced boy. Gone to a colleague with a smallholding in darkest east Cumbria to join a flock of silkies, old english pheasant fowl, hamburgs and one unknown hybrid. I think they'll be fine!
= 2452.

[Jax]

plus 4 more here 2458

[petal]

2458 plus chocolate pekin(rosie) and gold brahma cockerel(Edward 2) 2460