Hi from Oxfordshire

hmk · Post: # 26483Post **hmk** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:14 am

Hi,

I have had chickens for 2 years- started with 2, now up to 6! Best thing I've done and I wish I'd got them years ago 8) They're not nearly so difficult as I'd thought and my 3 children (7, 5 and 2 years) love collecting the eggs. The last 4 hens were chosen for egg colour as well as production so they can identify the 'owner' of each egg! Even DH likes them now!

We moved to this village last year, so garden very much a work in progress. Typical semi-size garden so we're also top of the waiting list for an allotment....hopefully next year

But have managed to cram in quite a lot of veg in the meantime!

Hazel

cir3ngirl · Post: # 26484Post **cir3ngirl** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:17 am

Welcome to the site.

Davina

Wombat · Post: # 26486Post **Wombat** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:31 am

G'Day HMK,

Welcome to the site!

Yep, we love our chooks too!

Nev

hedgewitch · Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:39 am

Hello and welcome to the site

Andy Hamilton · Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:02 pm

hello there and welcome hmk.

Lovely area that you live in, I have been on a few walks around Oxfordshire.

Shirley · Post: # 26527Post **Shirley** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:06 pm

Hi HMK...

We've also got chickens... ducks and geese too now.

Looking forward to getting to know you more.

Millymollymandy · Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:09 am

Hi HMK and welcome to the site. I have chooks too!

ina · Post: # 26567Post **ina** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:21 pm

Hi Hazel, and welcome!

Your village has allotments - that's great! Nothing like that around here, I'm afraid. Although, my garden really is big enough for me as a single person... Big enough for the hens that I haven't got yet, too!

hmk · Post: # 26616Post **hmk** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:49 pm

Millymollymandy wrote:Hi HMK and welcome to the site. I have chooks too!

Thanks everyone.

I've been lurking on and off for a while, so looking forward to posting

Hazel

Chickpea · Post: # 26656Post **Chickpea** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:07 am

Hi Hazel. I love Oxfordshire, I go to the Cropredy festival near Banbury every year. This year we'll need to get chicken sitters whilst we're gone. Our kids love the chickens, too. They've been pestering me for a puppy but chickens are just as much fun to watch and you don't have to take them for walks every day. And of course you get eggs. And their poo can go on the compost heap. And the vets bills aren't nearly as high. And you can eat them when you get fed up of seeing them. Maybe we should do a new "101 uses" - "101 reasons why chickens are better than puppies"

Wombat · Post: # 26658Post **Wombat** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:12 am

Works for me!

hmk · Post: # 26677Post **hmk** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:36 am

[quote="Chickpea"]Hi Hazel. I love Oxfordshire, I go to the Cropredy festival near Banbury every year. [quote]

I'll look out for you- we love Fairport too