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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Wee Eck on June 04, 2013, 11:09:20 am

Title: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Wee Eck on June 04, 2013, 11:09:20 am: Good Morning from a lovely sunny Glasgow City Centre :wave:, unfortunately I am at work and not out enjoying the sun !!! >:(

Annie ( my partner ) and I have been kept as slaves by our chickens for 2-3 years now (but really we love it !!) We live in Lennoxtown just north of Glasgow and our girls are in residence in our back garden. We are now down to 14 girls ( having just lost 1 of our old Ex-Batts last week...Marie she was a lovely girl too :'( )

So that leaves us with the following girls

Cleopatra (AKA Clatty Patty ).... Our last remaining Ex Batt

Chrystal ; Pinkie ; Jasmine & Piccolo ..... 4 lovely wee white balls of fluff ( Silkies )

Maisie & Gloria..... 2 Lovely big bolshie white Sussex

Melody..... A very vocal Lavender Araucana

Can Can ... Cuckoo Maran (lovely natured girl )

Siouxie & Minnie .... 2 Cream Legbars (who can be a bit vocal too)

Violet...A bit scatty Bluebell

Piper.....Another nice natured girl who is a Pied (Reverse Sussex)

Last but not least Fiddler... Another of the Scatty bunch and leader of the Escape Party ( A Speckaldy )

We have only had girls in our garden as I say for about 3 years but our garden & Life would be very dull without them

Alex. AKA as Wee Eck
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Rosemary on June 04, 2013, 12:22:52 pm: Hello and welcome from :sunshine: Carnoustie :wave:

I've spent the morning finishing mucking out the field shelter, amongst other things. Ah, the joys - henhouses tomorrow. ;)
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Bionic on June 04, 2013, 12:37:11 pm: Hello and welcome Alex :wave: from a very sunny Carmarthenshire :sunshine:
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Wee Eck on June 04, 2013, 01:24:52 pm: Love it at this time of year when the girls spend less time in their henhouses so they can be cleaned out in jig time and at least you can be out in the sunshine while you are poo-picking in the garden !!!!
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: happygolucky on June 04, 2013, 02:28:34 pm: :wave: , hello from Clackmannan, similar situation but I re homed most of my hens due to down sizing but we still have 4, if they went I would miss them so much, they also provide us with just enough eggs. I did have about 16, our garden is nice and safe and they are no trouble at all to look after, as we want to move I just hope our next home is hen safe"" :wave: My husband did work for Glasgow council and sell the eggs at work but that job got the axe so our supply chain lost the demand!!
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Wee Eck on June 04, 2013, 02:44:42 pm: Hi
I work for The Scottish Government and Annie is a Lollipop Lady so we have no shortage of customers for our eggs ( Well the chickens eggs that is !! :roflanim:
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: happygolucky on June 04, 2013, 02:46:59 pm: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: , my husband used to transport our eggs (hens that is) all over GLasgow, in his panniers, never had one break, he keeps being asked for them now in Dundee but declines as he wants cake now :innocent:
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Wee Eck on June 04, 2013, 03:07:34 pm: Sounds like he is a man after my own heart ..................I love home baking too :yum:
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: happygolucky on June 04, 2013, 03:18:46 pm: we both have home baking bellies to match..mine is much bigger but then i am older :innocent:
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Wee Eck on June 04, 2013, 03:44:41 pm: And me..............................but how did we end up talking about the size of our bellies on here ??????????? :roflanim:
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: happygolucky on June 04, 2013, 03:48:24 pm: :innocent: :innocent:
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Post by: mojocafa on June 04, 2013, 11:16:40 pm: Hello from Arbroath, intrigued to find out what do you do at scot gov
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Bert on June 05, 2013, 06:29:13 am: Hi from the Isle of Mull :wave:
Your girls all sound lovely with some very cool names :thumbsup: . Life is defiantly better with chickens in it :chook:
I've got 10 girls. Just in the middle of building them a new house.
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Wee Eck on June 05, 2013, 09:02:10 am: Quote from: mojocafa on June 04, 2013, 11:16:40 pm
Hello from Arbroath, intrigued to find out what do you do at scot gov

Hi there nothing too exiting I'm afraid I am what they call a Front of House Team Member which simply means I work on Recetion / Security duties at 3 buildings in Glasgow...Europa Building on Argyll Street....Highlander House on Waterloo Street and Atlantic Auay Building on Broomielaw.

I bet you are disappointed now

:roflanim:
Title: Re: Good Morning and Hello
Post by: Wee Eck on June 05, 2013, 09:05:02 am: Quote from: Bert on June 05, 2013, 06:29:13 am
Hi from the Isle of Mull :wave:
Your girls all sound lovely with some very cool names :thumbsup: . Life is defiantly better with chickens in it :chook:
I've got 10 girls. Just in the middle of building them a new house.

We started off by aiming to have 3-4 girls and now we have 14 ( at one stage we had 18 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our main house (we have 3 now) is a plastic 6' x4' shed which is great

What size is your new house going to be then ??