C-Day!
Thursday 13th April.
A quick trip to B&Q to return the wrong sized bolts and to purchase the last bit of wire is necessary. We decide as the finishing touches will take only a few minutes that we will collect the chickens on the way home anyway so off we head to "Longstone". We're quickly over-awed by the vast selection of chickens available. They range from fabulous "Silkies" who sport white mops atop sleek black bodies to tiny ball of fluff "Bantams" to the amazingly massive "Jersey Giants". We spend a long time selecting out 6 hens and head to the farm shop only to be told we can only buy trios of 2 hens and a rooster. Hmmm, neighbors will love that. After some haggling it's agreed we can have a rooster and 5 hens as long as 3 hens are from the miscellaneous breeds loose in the field. We pick out 2 "Maran" hens in a soft grey colour called cuckoo, a breed which are famous for laying chocolate coloured eggs and a light "Sussex" hen from the field. For our rare breed trio there's much debate over what we'll pick but we settle upon a set of gold laced "Wyandottes". On the way home we give the birds names - Roger the rooster, the wyandotte hens are Ruby (smaller) and Roxy (larger), the Marrans are Sooty (larger) and sweep (smaller) and the sussex is Delia. We get the chooks home, add the finishing touches to the pen and get set to unpack them. We release the Wyandottes first and "Roger" the rooster starts up crowing immediately...Oh god! We let everyone out and soon they settle down to scratching for corn in their run.
A quick trip to B&Q to return the wrong sized bolts and to purchase the last bit of wire is necessary. We decide as the finishing touches will take only a few minutes that we will collect the chickens on the way home anyway so off we head to "Longstone". We're quickly over-awed by the vast selection of chickens available. They range from fabulous "Silkies" who sport white mops atop sleek black bodies to tiny ball of fluff "Bantams" to the amazingly massive "Jersey Giants". We spend a long time selecting out 6 hens and head to the farm shop only to be told we can only buy trios of 2 hens and a rooster. Hmmm, neighbors will love that. After some haggling it's agreed we can have a rooster and 5 hens as long as 3 hens are from the miscellaneous breeds loose in the field. We pick out 2 "Maran" hens in a soft grey colour called cuckoo, a breed which are famous for laying chocolate coloured eggs and a light "Sussex" hen from the field. For our rare breed trio there's much debate over what we'll pick but we settle upon a set of gold laced "Wyandottes". On the way home we give the birds names - Roger the rooster, the wyandotte hens are Ruby (smaller) and Roxy (larger), the Marrans are Sooty (larger) and sweep (smaller) and the sussex is Delia. We get the chooks home, add the finishing touches to the pen and get set to unpack them. We release the Wyandottes first and "Roger" the rooster starts up crowing immediately...Oh god! We let everyone out and soon they settle down to scratching for corn in their run.
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