Weekend Away

[Bramble-Poultry]

Well we managed to get away for the weekend - for those of you who don't know we have a holiday home (not that we have actually been yet this year!)

Anyways we went and had a nice much needed break - but even when we go away for the weekend naughty stowaway chickens attack us - 6 in fact stowed away in the boot of our car, 2 cream legbar girls, 2 cobar girls and a couple of Olives!!!

Well of course by the time we got all the way home and had realised that they had stowed away it was far too late to do anything about returning them from whence they came so I suppose they will have to stay!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Photos please!

[ginger ninger]

Chooks these days, there so clever.

[Bramble-Poultry]

Piccies as promised. See how small they are. we couldnt notice these at all due to their size, and we were totally deaf to their "cheep cheep" for 2 hours all the way home!

[ginger ninger]

I bet your oblivious to there cuteness as well?

[Eco-Chic]

I'm beginning to think the mods should ban photies.

There's far too much cuteness on this forum

[Bramble-Poultry]

ginger, they are cute? eh? never noticed........

[ginger ninger]

Yup...I bet you didn't.......pinocchio.

[Bramble-Poultry]

to be fair, it was hard to choose the few we did when faced with a pen of around 100 day old chicks! talk about options paralysis!

ps - transylvanian naked neck chicks look even funnier thn the adults as the chicks have naked necks too and a small mop of black fluff on their heads. I swear if three stood next to each other you would have thought it was the three stooges!!

[RichmondHens]

The handsome bridegroom is awaiting them whenever you need him .....................!!!!

Thought the Vine had been a bit quiet without you on it Jenni!

[Eco-Chic]

But...they're babies

Actually, how old (or young) are they when they start having ahem, relations?

[Bramble-Poultry]

Richmond - I will take that as a compliment We will be coming for their delightful hubby some point in October (hopefully)

Eco - I have older cream legbars too which Richmonds boy is destined to partner for fresh blood as it were, these babies are just cos and they will go in with the others when they are big enough! The cobars are for an Olive egg laying experiment, and the Olives were for comparison for my experiment!!! (my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)

one of my young Dorking cokerels is already trying it on with the ladies and he is about 18weeks now!

[its hilly]

Phew read the thread now and realise you're not heading this way..lol.
Whats a cobar? And whats an Olive? Only olives i know get cooked on pizzas

[Bramble-Poultry]

Hilly - hahahah - was considereing the lakes lol

Cob bar - cochin and barred plymouth rock hybrid - sex linked chicks

Olive - depends on where you get it from but it is a hybrid for laying olive coloured eggs, one variety is a cobar cross cream legbar and the other variety is a cream legbar cross also but not with a cobar (i've forgotten what though - it will come to me having a blonde moment!)

[Hilary B]

Hilly - hahahah - was considereing the lakes lol

Cob bar - cochin and barred plymouth rock hybrid - sex linked chicks

Olive - depends on where you get it from but it is a hybrid for laying olive coloured eggs, one variety is a cobar cross cream legbar and the other variety is a cream legbar cross also but not with a cobar (i've forgotten what though - it will come to me having a blonde moment!)

Crossed with one of the dark egg types isn't it? Maran?