Update - sadly, Clucky died on 17th March, 2013.....
R.I.P. Clucky.
"Farewell, Clucky, queen of Galliformes, whose long and faithful friendship those who knew you won't forget! Though your body will decay, your spirit lingers on in the quiet, nest-spun places of your garden home. May your egg-shaped descendants ever flourish and your human friends find solace for the loss they have sustained."
@definitelydeb thank you ... but this is a hen. We are not allowed to have roosters in suburbia (thank goodness - the ones at our farm start crowing at 2am)
@bobfoto so many questions. We have 5 hens, 3 are meat chickens and don't lay that well, this one and another yellow hen are great layers and regularly lay 90 g eggs, I don't drink beer and I never share my wine with the chooks but they do like kitchen scraps, sunflower seeds, bugs, ants and green shoots and my favourite pot plants and the leaves and chillies off the chilli bush. Her name is Clucky.
@corymbia - will you chop the heads off the meat birds? My Chook lays 90grammers and she loves beer but ignores wine. I think she just like bubbles because champagne is good. Julia doesn't dig ants, but she loves Mastotermes darwiniensis. Mother Duck loves chiles but the two Drakes only like the little red bird's eyes....
@bobfoto - Our chooks are pets and won't be eaten. Our hens have slowly gotten rid of all the green ants in our yard but have left the little ants alone.
What's a chook?! Another new word for me to go look up!
Love the expression on her face - lovely crisp shot well done!
Can't believe you guys down under have spare alcohol?! My daughter is desperate for me to get chickens but the cats are equally keen as are the neighbourhood foxes....
@bobfoto Yet again bobfoto comes to my rescue as chief transglobal translator!! Thanks mate! Now will have to translate it for the chickens as over here they go kindof 'breek brook brook'
(When I woke up this morning I had no idea I would be having this conversation)....
@filsie65 yes @bobfoto comes to the rescue again! Fully grown chooks are too big for cats to think much about (unless they are feral and HUNGRY) and foxes are a problem here too. My secret so far has been very secure night housing for them .... not even mice or snakes can get into their new cage :) A fox caused a ruckus a while back but couldn't find his way in.
...and for the record, the noise they were making at 4am today nearly got them the chop! @kerristephens thank you
@bobfoto lucky. I am reliably told that there are many foxes living around the burbs of Brisbane. Greg would see dead ones by the freeway near our house every few months.
@bobfoto@filsie65 Famous last words .... I left the wheels up on the chook cage last night (which leaves a 2 inch gap under the door)..... Heard a ruckus as I was going to bed and checked it out armed with no more than a mag lite ..... And saw a 1.5 m python leaving with a feather in his mouth. I aided him on his way with a blast of the hose.
Thankfully no chook-shaped bulge and all chooks present and accounted for today.
@corymbia Oh my giddy aunt ... well done you! Thank goodness the chooks survived and were canny enough to make so much noise. What a way to end your day.... :)
@harsha thank you
That's what her expression says to me.
Great detail in this photo
@onie heh - she's really thinking "so where is the food?"
@myautofocuslife she does I think.
@bobfoto apparently they are considered a delicacy by my chooks.
Love the expression on her face - lovely crisp shot well done!
Can't believe you guys down under have spare alcohol?! My daughter is desperate for me to get chickens but the cats are equally keen as are the neighbourhood foxes....
@filsie65 - A chook is simply a chicken. Its because of the sound they make... chook chook chook. And yeah foxes are no good.
(When I woke up this morning I had no idea I would be having this conversation)....
...and for the record, the noise they were making at 4am today nearly got them the chop!
@kerristephens thank you
@bobfoto I swear mine shout "heeelp" whenever the fox comes sniffing around.
Thankfully no chook-shaped bulge and all chooks present and accounted for today.