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veecee · October 21, 2012 4:05 pm

Wholocked wrote:
Today I finished building a chook yard about 3 times larger than the one in Mum's yard currently. They were very happy when we moved them in! And you can stand up inside this one woo!

What is a chook yard? And are you standing up yourself, or are the chooks?

besleybean · October 21, 2012 4:08 pm

A caged area for the chickens/hens and I assume an adult can stand up in it.

tiharoa · October 21, 2012 6:38 pm

besleybean wrote:
A caged area for the chickens/hens and I assume an adult can stand up in it.

Crawling in chicken s... to collect eggs wouldn't be nice.......

veecee · October 21, 2012 11:55 pm

I will tell my nextdoor neighbors that they are building a chookyard.

Wholocked · October 22, 2012 12:50 am

Haha yes we call Chickens Chooks in Aus...and yes an adult can stand up in the new yard

veecee · October 22, 2012 2:22 am

Never heard "chooks" before. Is it short for "chookens"?
I asked my neighbor if they were getting the chickens just to torture their three cats, who won't be able to get to the chickens.

besleybean · October 22, 2012 5:52 am

We hope!

veecee · October 22, 2012 7:08 pm

besleybean wrote:
We hope!

Good point. If I hear squawking, I'll know what's for dinner.

horserider99 · October 22, 2012 7:15 pm

Only if they stop laying. Do your chickens have names?

veecee · October 22, 2012 7:17 pm

Not mine. My next-door neighbors'. They haven't gotten them yet. They needed our permission first, because we are within city limits. They are supposed to get the eggs sometime in the spring (I don't know how they are shipped), and then incubate them. I think one is a Chinese something, because one of their kids has told me several times and is quite excited about it. Do you have chooks?

Davina · October 22, 2012 7:33 pm

One of my friends keeps chooks. She lots the first lot to a fox attack but the second lot are fine...so far. The mother of one of the girls at the stables keeps them too. SE has about 50 now and they produce a lot of eggs which they sell.

horserider99 · October 22, 2012 7:53 pm

I have about 35 hens, but some of them are still little, so they won't lay till spring. I have two roosters as well, and they have names (sadly, their names are not John and Sherlock ).

veecee · October 23, 2012 2:05 am

Do you live in the country? Roosters are not allowed within our city limits because of the noise they make. I'm hoping the hens will behave themselves noise-wise.

horserider99 · October 23, 2012 3:24 am

yeah, I do. Our roosters are little too, so they don't make as much noise.

veecee · October 23, 2012 6:48 pm

Pics?

horserider99 · October 24, 2012 4:08 am

Here's a picture that looks like him;

And I had a rooster that looks like this one;

Sherlockita · October 24, 2012 5:05 am

When I am not doing Sherlock, I either am working or facebooking ;)

veecee · October 25, 2012 1:33 am

horserider99 wrote:
Here's a picture that looks like him;

And I had a rooster that looks like this one;

Wow, those are spectacular birds.

besleybean · October 25, 2012 5:51 am

Fabulous.

The Doctor · October 30, 2012 4:33 am

horserider99 wrote:
And I had a rooster that looks like this one;

Please, what breed is this as I have a rooster looking exactly like this after having unknown market eggs hatched by my hen?