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LynneA

Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 09 2:57 pm Post subject: Dear Hens
The drinker we put in your run every day contains water, plus a little additional supplement for your health. It is there for you to drink from, not to act as a target to see how far you can kick the contents of the run.

Mutton

Joined: 09 May 2009
Posts: 1508

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 09 7:47 pm Post subject:
Dear Hens My finger is not edible. It is also not a lever. I know if you peck my finger I scream and throw the can of grain across the room. All you had to do was wait thirty seconds and you wouldn't have been brained by a can. PS Is brained the right word when addressing a chicken?

kevin.vinke

Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Posts: 1304
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 09 11:44 pm Post subject:
dear Hens, I bring you a nice clean drinker with lukewarm water a touch of vinegar and garlic and what do you insist on drinking? the ice that I broke out of your drinker a few minutes ago. Ps thank you for the eggs

SarahB

Joined: 09 Sep 2007
Posts: 869
Location: South Wales

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 10:41 am Post subject:

Dear hens,
When I provide clean, ice free water for you, do you insist on desperately trying to break the ice on the puddle in your run to drink? Oh the puddle that wouldn't be there if you hadn't decided to dig a large hole in the middle of your run.
Oh and while I'm at it, I know it's cold but why poo in the nest boxes? I know you prefer to sleep in there because it's warmer, but the mess.....

Thanks for carrying on with the egg laying when you should really be having a break though, that's ace.

Castle Farm

Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 457
Location: Powys/Hereford Border.Near Hay-on-Wye

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 2:54 pm Post subject:
Dear hens. You have 16 acres of land to crap on...Please stop doing it in the drinkers

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 09 5:28 pm Post subject:

Dear hens,

after your days sulking yesterday (where you may recall that you all refused to come out of the house all day) you will notice I have made some modifications to your quarters. I am pleased to see that you did deign to come today, albeit for a spot of outdoor sulking.

Please note, you are exceptionally spoilt. You have a duvet and a shyer of platsic surrounding you house to keep you toasty, not to mention the extra corn, sunflower seeds and mealworms. so stop being such wimps.

Some eggs would be nice.
The big scary person with the grain scoop.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 09 7:52 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Dear hens,
Some eggs would be nice.
The big scary person with the grain scoop.

Ditto the big extra scary person with the sharp axe.

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 5174
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 09 7:30 pm Post subject:

Dear Silkie (whichever one of you it is),

You are officially stupid. Is today really the day you want to start moulting? You've stopped laying to freeze? I could have put you in thr freezer for that!!

Oh, and next time, please either give me due warning or do your moulting in one place, rather than all over the enclosure, thereby giving the impression that a fox has been avisiting...

Yours, the one with the corn

joanne

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

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 09 10:32 am Post subject:
Why oh why when there is 23 of you am I having to buy eggs today? I know its cold and snowy but you could have just laid me 1/2 dozen or so over the last week - It's not much to ask really!

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 09 1:26 pm Post subject:
Dear Mrs Faverolle, Thank you for your first egg! I used it for the glaze on my pork pie.

SarahB

Joined: 09 Sep 2007
Posts: 869
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 09 6:09 pm Post subject:

gardening-girl wrote:

Dear Mrs Faverolle,
Thank you for your first egg! I used it for the glaze on my pork pie.

Marvellous!

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 09 9:11 pm Post subject:
It was very small

Chickem

Joined: 27 Mar 2009
Posts: 3959
Location: Slightly soggy South Wales

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 09 9:51 pm Post subject:

gardening-girl wrote:

It was very small

But isn't it fantastic when they lay for the first time?

we're getting between 6 and 10 at the moment from 19 hens
Thank you Girls x

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44456
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 09 10:18 pm Post subject:
dear rooster my dog is now scared of hens

Rosemary Judy

Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1215
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 09 8:52 am Post subject:
Dear Hens, thanks to whoever laid an egg today - your first since the 19th October. Can I have a few more by Friday, so we can have scrambled eggs for our Christmas breakfast. And please enjoy being in the greenhouse today, as you are too wimpy to walk in the snow and your little run is too tiny for you to be in another day. RJ

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