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15-08-2008, 09:29 PM
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 Rehabilitated chooks! (smile! smilie) You may or may not know (I've been shouting it from the rooftops!) that I've recently been christened into the realms of poultry keeping! I bought 10 dodgy chickens that hadn't layed for months, with a view to giving them a good home and if I got an odd egg now and again I would be very happy and thank them dearly!  That was three weeks ago tomorrow. After a week and a half of good feeding and sypathetic surroundings I was rewarded with an egg!  Then one the next day, three the day after and so it went on until the tally is now SEVEN eggs a day!I talk to the chooks a lot and they talk back although I haven't got a chook dictionary so haven't the foggiest what they are saying! I do know that when I first got them though they were very, very quiet, which to me wasn't natural  If you've read this far and are waiting for the punchline.........sorry, there isn't one! As far as as I'm concerned it just goes to prove that with a bit of kindness, decent food and surroundings, miracles can happen! 
__________________ My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE) Last edited by Snadger; 15-08-2008 at 10:24 PM.      |
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15-08-2008, 11:31 PM
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Good morning = bok bok Hello dad = bok bok I'm going to lay an egg = bok bok bok bok bok I'm laying an egg = CHOOOOOOOK bok bok CHOOOOOOK I've laid an egg = CHOOOOOOK chook chook CHOOOOOOK Have you seen my egg? = bok bok chook bok Can we have some treats now? = bok bok bok chook chook bok Ooooh is it raining? = boooooooooooooooook chook No doubt you'll learn more as you speak chook to your girls
__________________ Always look on the bright side of life  View my blog - http://chooksandveggies.blogspot.com/ updated November 1st 2008 |
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15-08-2008, 11:37 PM
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You sure do fit in well on the Vine Maureen!!!!!!! ...utterly fantastic Maureen!!!!!!!Bit like Klingon but less aggressive then eh????  Last edited by Nicos; 15-08-2008 at 11:38 PM. |
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15-08-2008, 11:49 PM
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I bet they think I'm a right dork, with speech problems! 
__________________ My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE) |
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16-08-2008, 02:28 AM
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| What a lovely story. It just goes to show that a bit of kindness can work wonders. Enjoy all your lovely eggs! |
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16-08-2008, 10:11 AM
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| Ne'er mind Snadge, they'll chat to you no matter what you say. Probably telling the others that the take-away has arrived anyway
__________________ Always look on the bright side of life View my blog - http://chooksandveggies.blogspot.com/ updated November 1st 2008 |
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16-08-2008, 11:51 AM
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| snadger, you bring me back to years ago when my children were small and I kept chickens - at one stage, we got some 'retired' battery hens which we picked up from an unebelievably crowded, smelly housing unit - husband and the hen-man went in, I just stayed at the door. Anyway, at first the newbies were scared and wouldn't come out of the henhouse but in a few weeks they were picking and scratching around the garden and proved the hen-man wrong - he'd told us they were all 'cleared out' (to put it politely) and we'd never see an egg from them. It's rewarding to see them adapting to being properly treated and you deserve every egg they thank you with. Best of luck with your new arrivals! |
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16-08-2008, 05:18 PM
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| well done! you must feel really good that your obvious loving care is doing the trick. i talk to my girls all the time and my son keeps creeping up with his phone to video me. he reckons it would be a big hit on you tube! ah, he's got to be a bit quicker to catch his old mum! xxxmillyxxx
__________________ The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. - Alfred Austin |
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16-08-2008, 07:45 PM
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| congrats and many happy egg laying years. I too talk to my chooks much to my neighbours amusement especially first thing in the morning when she is pegging out her washing. Nothing more relaxing than half an hour chicken talk after a hard day at work.... they seem to 'understand!!' |
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17-08-2008, 06:41 PM
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| What about chir, chir, chir, this means look out girls I think I've just spotted some huge dangerous predator. Usually a magpie going overhead! Chook, chook, chook - done very quickly. Look girls just found the most ginormous slug. (why they advertise the fact I don't know) Sue |
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17-08-2008, 08:53 PM
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__________________ Always look on the bright side of life View my blog - http://chooksandveggies.blogspot.com/ updated November 1st 2008 |
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17-08-2008, 09:39 PM
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| One of my neighbours said to me a few months ago "we always know when you're home, we can hear you talking to all your animals" |
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18-08-2008, 06:19 PM
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Usually lots of times which I take to mean "I'm going to lay an egg. Are you listening!! I'm just going to lay an egg. I'm laying my egg now, I said I'm layiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg. I've laid my egg. Do you want to see my egg? Oy, she's just pinched my egg again!!! Every day when I've laid an egg she comes in and pinches it!! "
__________________ Always look on the bright side of life View my blog - http://chooksandveggies.blogspot.com/ updated November 1st 2008 |
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18-08-2008, 07:03 PM
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| No other site like this! great int it?we're all learning a new language.lol. |
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18-08-2008, 08:53 PM
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| I love talking to my hens, although when one of them pecked my nose last night I'm not sure what they made of the response. It went something like 'Ow you bugger, that bloody hurt!!!' I was too shocked to translate that into chook.
__________________ I'd rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. http://hollandsroadparadise.blogspot.com updated 14 May 2008 www.bradleyroundtwo.blogspot.com |
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18-08-2008, 11:18 PM
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| if anyone knows the chicken for "stop pecking my bootlaces... and sod off, this is MY biscuit" could they let me know ?? It's like Alfred Hitchcock the second I set foot out of the back door with a cuppa these days |
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18-08-2008, 11:37 PM
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__________________ Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white. |
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18-08-2008, 11:40 PM
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| bir bir bok bok bok bok (clucked quickly whilst walking up & down the wrong side of the garden fence) means: you're feeding the others and I can't get back in the garden!
__________________ How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”  |
