My Rentachooks arrived today!

Nicely-made coop (though I think the roost is too low, not that there's
anywhere else to put it). Birds are originally from a chook breeder who sells
to battery farms, and they've been debeaked :-( At least they're going to
have happy lives. One is caramel and the other is more a light rust colour.
About 22 weeks old; may or may not be laying already; we'll find out tomorrow
morning. Threw some old cabbage in but the chooks weren't sure if it was food
or not.

Not named yet. I suggested Caramel and Rusty or Sage and Onion; DH wants
Gregory and Peck (from an episode of Bananas in Pyjamas, but as we don't have
a rooster that seems inappropriate); DS1 has ultimate naming rights.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.

"Chookie" wrote in message
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My Rentachooks arrived today!

Nicely-made coop (though I think the roost is too low, not that there's
anywhere else to put it). Birds are originally from a chook breeder who
sells
to battery farms, and they've been debeaked :-( At least they're going to
have happy lives. One is caramel and the other is more a light rust
colour.
About 22 weeks old; may or may not be laying already; we'll find out
tomorrow
morning. Threw some old cabbage in but the chooks weren't sure if it was
food
or not.

Not named yet. I suggested Caramel and Rusty or Sage and Onion; DH wants
Gregory and Peck (from an episode of Bananas in Pyjamas, but as we don't
have
a rooster that seems inappropriate); DS1 has ultimate naming rights.

i like sage & onion.

cluck. enjoy!
--
elizabeth (in australia)
DS 20th august 2002
#2 due 14th october 2005

"Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't
get you anywhere." -- Anonymous

Chookie
Shouls that not read (Husband Dear) HD rather than DH other conotations
involved with Mr Cranium?????
Just a thought
Jim

"Chookie" wrote in message
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My Rentachooks arrived today!

Nicely-made coop (though I think the roost is too low, not that there's
anywhere else to put it). Birds are originally from a chook breeder who
sells
to battery farms, and they've been debeaked :-( At least they're going to
have happy lives. One is caramel and the other is more a light rust
colour.
About 22 weeks old; may or may not be laying already; we'll find out
tomorrow
morning. Threw some old cabbage in but the chooks weren't sure if it was
food
or not.

Not named yet. I suggested Caramel and Rusty or Sage and Onion; DH wants
Gregory and Peck (from an episode of Bananas in Pyjamas, but as we don't
have
a rooster that seems inappropriate); DS1 has ultimate naming rights.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.

In article ,
"SG1" wrote:

Shouls that not read (Husband Dear) HD rather than DH other conotations
involved with Mr Cranium?????

I think that might be one reason a lot of women like using the notation DH --
it can be so many, many things...

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.

In article ,
Janet Baraclough wrote:

The "debeaking " that happens to chickens intended for mass-production
farms, cuts only the tip of the top beak back, so it endsvery slightly
shorter than the bottom one.

Unfortunately, these two have lost a bit of the bottom as well -- you can
imagine how short their beaks are :-( When I said "savagely debeaked", I
really meant it!

I will only buy battery eggs if I am desperate.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.