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

[Suechooks]

Sorry Hayley [[[[hug]]]]

[petal]

1685 plus 4 more chicks(might call one speckle to keep name going!)1689

[HayleyB]

Speckle is a lovely name

[snakeshack]

Now 1688,egbert went after a massive prolapse

[minskey]

On the third day of christmas my true love gave to me...... 3 french hens etc, etc, etc.

Well that is what I'm going to tell my OH who is still working away, as I seem to have come home with 3 lovely cuckoo Maran Pullets

Sooooo we have 1691

[CountryFayre]

eeerrrr um I currently have about 500 - maybe I shouldn't play this game, it could be constituted as cheating as they are not here to stay!!!

Permanent hens only 20

[squibbs]

Thanks Frias - I've been lurking for over a year now - but thought I'd join in properly

I'm afraid one of our cockerels was causing too much trouble and is on his last journey....

so -1

I'm not sure what the total is depending on how or if we are counting CountryFayres chickens

[petal]

1691 plus 3 brahma chicks! Just hatched - they are whoppers! Athos, porthos, Aramis - the three musketeers! If a pekin hatches soon he can be called d'artagnan a musketeer wannabee..........1694 plus or minus the other 2 posts -( i can't be adding/minusing other peoples I can just about cope with my own!!)

[Nicos]

....would that be 1713 then ????? Cor- who would have imagined???

[petal]

1713 minus 3 = 1710
Aramis died, d'artagnan was a case of counting your chickens before they have hatched(successfully!) and we lost the first chicken we ever bought today - Bec the evil but funny black rock, she had a prolapse so had to be put down. Kids will be upset when they get back from school......

[Suechooks]

Sorry to hear that Petal.

[Birdie Wife]

1710 - 1 = 1709

My lovely barred Plymouth Rock Penny, who used to lay me the biggest eggs you've ever seen, succumbed to the severe cold and died after a short illness. Bye bye Penny...

[PatchyPauline]

Plus 2 = 1711

[colliebird]

1710 - 1 = 1709

My lovely barred Plymouth Rock Penny, who used to lay me the biggest eggs you've ever seen, succumbed to the severe cold and died after a short illness. Bye bye Penny...

How sad
It's been minus 12 Celsius here every night for over 3 weeks now, and not gone above minus 5 during the day. The hens drinkers have frozen solid over night and I've had to change the water twice a day, but the hens have just snuggled up together and are fine.
They weren't too keen on going out into the snow, and preferred to look at the snow through a window.
Today there's a lot of grass showing through what is left of the snow, so they've been outside to see if any worms have been brave enough to venture above ground.

Valerie

[beulah59]

Lost another just after Christmas ... became really poorly very quickly, had lost weight, crop empty. Couldn't really tell what was going on but because of the snow and ice couldn't get her to the vet, so took the decision to put her out of her misery ourselves

So back to 1710 for the board.