Post by chicken2012 on Jul 10, 2014 16:48:19 GMT
Hi everyone.
As you can probably gather from my user name, I keep chickens. at the moment I have 8 of them.
So originally I brought 6 in may 2012. In summer 2013, we lost 4 of them in quick succession, probably from becoming egg-bound. So we brought another 3. in the winter of 2013/14, sadly one of them also died. By now we were only getting eggs from the new ones, with the old two stopping laying for the most part in October/November 2013. We decided to buy another 4 chickens so that we were able to sell eggs again, but the two little chickens didn't get on with them.
In my posts I will refer to the original two chickens the old ones or the big ones, the second pair of chickens the little ones or the black ones, and the 4 will be known as the new ones.
So anyway, a few weeks ago one of the little ones hurt it's leg slightly. Because of this, one of the big ones attacked it, so we had to get the little one out and get another rabbit hutch to put her in. the big ones & the little ones lived in one pen, whilst the new ones live in the other half of the pen, with a temporary fence between the two. but now the little one who was attacked lives with the new ones because she gets on better with them after the attack.
So that is a very brief history of what has happened with my chickens so far, and if you are unsure of anything please ask and I'll do my best to try to explain it.
I'll also post photos later or tomorrow, when I get a chance.
As you can probably gather from my user name, I keep chickens. at the moment I have 8 of them.
So originally I brought 6 in may 2012. In summer 2013, we lost 4 of them in quick succession, probably from becoming egg-bound. So we brought another 3. in the winter of 2013/14, sadly one of them also died. By now we were only getting eggs from the new ones, with the old two stopping laying for the most part in October/November 2013. We decided to buy another 4 chickens so that we were able to sell eggs again, but the two little chickens didn't get on with them.
In my posts I will refer to the original two chickens the old ones or the big ones, the second pair of chickens the little ones or the black ones, and the 4 will be known as the new ones.
So anyway, a few weeks ago one of the little ones hurt it's leg slightly. Because of this, one of the big ones attacked it, so we had to get the little one out and get another rabbit hutch to put her in. the big ones & the little ones lived in one pen, whilst the new ones live in the other half of the pen, with a temporary fence between the two. but now the little one who was attacked lives with the new ones because she gets on better with them after the attack.
So that is a very brief history of what has happened with my chickens so far, and if you are unsure of anything please ask and I'll do my best to try to explain it.
I'll also post photos later or tomorrow, when I get a chance.
