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

[MaureenHall]

1765 I'm adding in my 2 chicks as they're little fighters. I think I might have had some incubation problems, reading up about these things, so next time ............................. hope I do better

[mr darcy]

1765 I'm adding in my 2 chicks as they're little fighters. I think I might have had some incubation problems, reading up about these things, so next time ............................. hope I do better

good luck little chicks!!!

[di]

Sorry,bringing it back down to 1762 due to three of our boys meeting their destiny at the weekend.
Fingers crossed for your babies Maureen.I know they'll get the best care and attention.xxx

[petal]

1762- 4 that met their destiny today! = 1758

[Liza]

1758 and my 4 new girls = 1762

[kirsty b]

1762 + my new trio = 1765

[Scarlet]

1765+ my 29 =1794

[Birdie Wife]

I went to the Dingwall sale on Saturday and came back with 2 Shetland hens and a trio of Barnvelder bantams, I was quite restrained I thought

Since then I had to cull my Scots Dumpy cockerel Wally who has never been well and was getting decked by the other (smaller) cockerel. He's had a decent burial under my crab apple tree.

So 1794 + 5 -1 = 1798

[mr darcy]

I went to the Dingwall sale on Saturday and came back with 2 Shetland hens and a trio of Barnvelder bantams, I was quite restrained I thought

Since then I had to cull my Scots Dumpy cockerel Wally who has never been well and was getting decked by the other (smaller) cockerel. He's had a decent burial under my crab apple tree.

So 1794 + 5 -1 = 1798

R I P Wally what does a shetland hen look like? small and wooly?

[Birdie Wife]

R I P Wally what does a shetland hen look like? small and wooly?

Well, they were marked down as Shetland hens but really they aren't a recognised breed as they don't conform to much of a standard. They are usually black and red with a tufted head and lay blue/green eggs, but basically they are an Araucana hybrid. They have an interesting history! Mine look like splash Araucanas - white with flecks of black all over. I'm looking forward to seeing what colour the eggs are!

Edited to add - I got the most beautiful pale blue egg yesterday! A decent size for a bantam (nearer to a medium hen egg). Yay!!

[tlck9]

1798 + 4 1802

No names as yet, 4 ex batts added to my flock, very assertive, boy what fun when they get to mix with the others.

[HayleyB]

minus 2, Snowy died over the weekend (Amber Link exbatt) natural causes it seems, and we lost one a week or so back, newer ex-batt unnamed who had just got her feathers back, stupid whatsit drowned in a water trough

1800

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[bodger]

have been waiting for an easy number to add
1800+20= 1820

[Glutton4...]

Sorry to hear your losses Hayley - About a month or so ago, I lost one of my newly rescued Batties to the water trough too - so upsetting when it was a happy, healthy, well-feathered bird...

[mr darcy]

1820+sox=1821!!