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mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 11:50 am Post subject: .......and finally
well, as the title says "and finally".........(drum roll, Debbie Magee at my side...) I have chickens.....it's only taken several years, a divorce, & the realisation that at 48 years old, I can make my own decisions without the say-so of someone else & they're better than watching telly I can't be alone in thinking this, can I ?!

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 11:57 am Post subject:
I have been in exactLy that position. Except it was 34 years. Feels good doesn't it! And don't worry the feeling just grows x

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:01 pm Post subject:
We've had chickens all through my childhood , getting my own in th last decade. and I still enjoy them. I wish you many happy chicken watching hours!

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:16 pm Post subject:
Thank you CIG & Nell I've not been able to drag myself away much so far.....I got them home at 11.30 our time, & have spent most of the time since then, I have to say, in awe....very peculiar feeling, but I can't stop smiling

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:28 pm Post subject:
I really miss my chooks but part of my new resolve now I've got past the last few years and discovered my apathy was down to a Vit B12 defiency and not just me being lazy, is to get the garden sorted and a secure run built for them, so I can have some more There is nothing like getting your first egg

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:32 pm Post subject:

Bloke said we may have our first egg tomorrow........I may not be able to sleep if I remind myself of that tonight

Loads of projects this year, including getting my veg garden back under way, building of a tractor shed (tractor being another benefit of being divorced), & working on the house...only obstacle is that all this takes money

I may have to rob a building society, looks like the only way

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:37 pm Post subject:

mousjoos wrote:

I know that feeling far too well - it's why my hallway still hasn't been decorated after 3 years!

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:49 pm Post subject:
Just been & checked, & bloke was right...we have an egg

powerjen

Joined: 23 Jan 2013
Posts: 44
Location: Argyll & Bute

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 2:27 pm Post subject:
Yey - congratulations on your first egg! When I got our first one I didn't want to cook it cause it seemed such a special moment! But we waited until we got a few more and had eggs benedict with asparagus and parma ham.... ah, heaven! And we toasted the hens (not literally - with something alcholic) who provided them for us before we ate. So how are you going to cook it?

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 3:10 pm Post subject:

mousjoos wrote:

Just been & checked, & bloke was right...we have an egg

I miss my chooks, I used to sit with them for hours...

Congratuations on your first egg!

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 3:29 pm Post subject:
Oh yeah, those "first egg" moments..... should I put together a small album of photos, I wonder? this is how I imagine it starting, & soon I'd have 200 hens of varying shapes & sizes, none of whom will ever see the inside of the oven because they'll all have names & little marks on the door frame as they grow, I need to lie down

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 3:59 pm Post subject:
They are a big distraction. Particularly when they see a fly they want to eat, or the noises they make if they find a worm.

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 4:05 pm Post subject:

mousjoos wrote:

Oh yeah, those "first egg" moments.....

should I put together a small album of photos, I wonder?

this is how I imagine it starting, & soon I'd have 200 hens of varying shapes & sizes, none of whom will ever see the inside of the oven because they'll all have names & little marks on the door frame as they grow,

I need to lie down

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 4:07 pm Post subject:

Lloyd wrote:

or the noises they make if they find a worm.

One of my favourite tricks - emptying the gecko vivarium outside, and the chickens spotting an errant live cricket

gapcap

Joined: 07 Jul 2009
Posts: 26

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 4:09 pm Post subject:
the joy of them when you're clearing up and they get the delights of the worms and bugs under the pile!! Magic!!

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