celeste Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Lucky boy Forrest !, lovely out come for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoebejo Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Mr Hazell is ranting and raving about it He was looking forward to consuming Forrest in the near future Forrests big day is on Saturday. He's coming to work with me Di has very kindly offered to collect him from there. I dread to think what he'll think of my shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebob Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 ">">"> Forrest survived his mega trip south east yesterday and here are a few pics of him this morning. So far so good - he seems to have settled in well and is gaining in confidence every minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greys mum Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Looks like he's strutting his stuff already!! Can just her him saying "Look at meeeeeeee ladies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoebejo Posted July 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 I like the one of him striding out purposefully. I'm so relieved he's settling in ok, long may it continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebob Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 He's doing brilliantly. Chaz is totally ignoring him so that's fine so far Forrest went absolutely bonkers with joy when we threw some bread into the run tonight to get all the stragglers to bed! He was already in the chicken run but legged it as fast as his long legs would carry him to make sure he got his share. He's living with: 1 Blue Orpington cockerel (Chaz) 2 Black Orpington hens (Whoopi & Bertha) 1 Splash Orpington,poss bantam, hen (Silva) 1 Buff Orpington hen (Buffy) 1 Blue Cochin hen 1 Buff Sussex hen 1 Light Sussex hen 1 Silver Sussex hen (Bess) 2 Buff Sussex bantam hens (French & Saunders) 1 Speckled Sussex hen (Martha) 1 Gold Laced Wyandotte hen (Spangles) I Barnevelder hen (Posh) 1 Cuckoo Maran hen 1 Welsummer Hen ) 1 Cream Legbar hen) The Partridge family (lol:) 1 Red/Black Pekin bantam (Bissell) 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte bantam hens 1 New England (or New Hampshire, can't remember which) bantam hen 2 Leyman Brown hens 2 black tailed brown hens 2 other brown hens 4 black rock hens 2 White Star hens 1 Amber star hen 1 Bluebell hen 2 Poland bantam hens That's plenty of hens for 2 cockerels so hopefully he'll be a happy boy. plus we have 6 chicks of mixed parentage who are about 4 weeks old and a load of eggs in the incubator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celeste Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Good lord !, is there a partridge in a pear tree too thats some roll call, and yes, I am a bit jealous Happy new life Forrest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebob Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Good lord !, is there a partridge in a pear tree too thats some roll call, and yes, I am a bit jealous Happy new life Forrest That list is as much for me as for anyone else. I struggle to remember what I've got here, especially when I'm checking that they're all in at night. Forrest continues to make good progress and was out with the others in the rain this morning, digging for bugs and stuff in the paddocks. He seems pretty content considering the things that have happened to him in the last few days. He's a very handsome boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoebejo Posted July 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 The garden seems empty without him Two of the Brahma girls went off to their new home this morning. We'll keep the remaining two, Emilys named hers Francesca and mine is Bridget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celeste Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 That list is as much for me as for anyone else. I struggle to remember what I've got here, especially when I'm checking that they're all in at night. I now have a mental image of you doing a school assembly style name check......." Chaz !" "here Miss" "Buffy !" " here miss" " Forrest !".........." Forrest !!!" " Ooo, sorry, do you mean me ?....yup, as is here Missus" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebob Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 A sad day today because my Light Sussex hen died She was lovely but hadn't been looking well for the last 3 days and despite me getting ab's from the vet, I couldn't save her. Forrest had decided she was the love of his life and has been guarding her for the last 3 days so it was especially sad althoug he does have his own fan club, which is totally separate to Chaz's fan club so I think he'll be ok If my incy eggs hatch I may have to swop one or a pair for a Light Sussex hen just for Forrest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebob Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 (edited) Sorry - duplicate post Edited August 1, 2009 by Katiebob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebob Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 Just candled my incy eggs. Quite a few fertile and live ones, a few I'm not sure about too I'll give them a little while longer and check again before i remove any. Need to increase the humidity in the incy now that I've worked out how it works! This incy is challenging me although mostly because the instructions are in quasi English-Korean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoebejo Posted August 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 I'm sorry to hear you lost your LS girl, poor Forrest too to have lost his wife so soon. I'm glad he's got a hareem forming already As predicted, most of my eggs were wrecked by the power cut. One lone warrior hatched on Wednesday and I helped out a straggler yesterday morning. It had been trying to hatch since Tuesday so I knew it's chances were slim. Despite my best efforts she died this afternoon I was fairly sure Sausage (Georgia named it!) would be left to grow up alone, and it'd been quite hysterical on Thursday night when I put it in the brooder on it's own so I knew I had to buy it some friends. A lovely lady called Luci at The Birdhaus near Brackley was happy to sell me some of her chicks. So yesterday morning we drove over there and came home with four beautiful babies. They're a couple of days older than Sausage but immediately he chilled out when they went in with him Our little Sausage: Hobnob the frizzle Pekin: Custard the black mottled Pekin: Daisy has burdoned this black silkie with the name Nymphadora And an as yet un-named blue frizzle Silkie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickentikka Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 Doner seems a good name for the last chick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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