Well, here are the long awaited chickens!!!

Meet Bela, Delila and Bartok the Cockerel



Sorry the picture is so small, I took it on my phone!

But arent they cute!!

hi malone nice chickens are they pets or larder stock i have a hamster that likes my flute she sits and sways along quite cute really

they are for laying eggs and breeding really. The Cockerel and the hen in the fore ground are from good stock so hopefully they will breed. The one in the background wasn't so good but should lay eggs.

wicked fresh eggs are so much nicer than shop bought didnt mean to sound cruel i couldnt eat anything i had know alive.

good luck with the little chicks can we see those on here too cos they will be cute and fluffy

welcome to the forums hehe ! aren't they lovely -

If I remember rightly, silkies make great mothers - they go broody quite often and could be used to hatch other eggs... They look great!

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Yeah! I read that in my book that they go broody quite alot. I think their eggs only take 20 days to hatch - i think.

You got your chickens

Ah yes! I didnt get the chickens that I was waiting for the other day, the lady forgot to bring them. I got these ones this morning from a breeder.

They look good! WHy didn't you go for Scots Greys though being in Scotland?

Hmmm! There is a rare breed poultry auction at the local mart which I'm going to go along to and see if I can pick up a couple of interesting birds. Maybe even a Peacock!

OOOOOOAAAOOOOOOUGH!

Hmm, peacock impressions work better with a sound track...

i love peacocks where my mother in law lives in dehli i can hear them in the mornings and evenings its a lovely sound

signs thinks of sunny india

thay are quite noisey but really pretty i would like to see them on the forum

Just given Bela a bath - she is so fluffy and white!!! Bartok was pleased to see is wife in dazzling form.

And She layed her first egg!!

Wow, they're great Hmm... spent a large majority of my lunch time today talking to our school chickens with my friend She has a rather massive obsession with them and I kinda got dragged along. They're OK really though. But not as cute as your's Malone

Really? I'd like to see that

They are very cute and soooo fluffy. Think I might go up the road and pester the lady for they other pair. But I dont want the silkies to get bullied by the big chickens... What a dilema. And do you think that two cockerels will be ok? I wonder if they will crow in Harmony. I dont want any augmented unison crowing in the morning. A nice major 3rd would be quite nice. Or a 4th would sound quite oriental...

No, they will fight.

Also, if you keep a cockerel with your hens you will get trace in your eggs.

I have several cockerels but they are very free range indeed, having the run of all of our fields so they don't fight but in a pen they would duff eachother up daily! Our eggs are fine though. Just keep one and let him enjoy several wives!

Yes, I thought so. I didnt want them cross breeding either with the leghorns. May end up with some very bizarre looking chickens. These chickens are quite free range. We live on a farm so we have fenced of a small paddock for them. They cant go out at the moment because they will just eat the crops which have just been sprayed with nast fertiliser.

Next on my list

I want to keep chickens, but hubby won't let me. Oh and those who've read about what I do to road kill should rest assured, I want live chickens, if I want to eat I'll go to the butchers.

wow what is this bird really pretty opps just read its a golden phesant hope you get some too