chicken time

yesterday had finaly got to go and see the beautiful chickens of mine; harriet,temple,lorna,jim jims, dexter and kanner at the farm that belongs to the last residential home of mine.
had missed them so much,the last time had seen them was before getting sectioned last september.

one call of lorna,and she comes running over waiting for a big hug,kanner loved his hug,harriet got into it after a shock of being picked up at the start and the others werent so sure,but heres some photos of them-

^lornypoos

^snuggling up to cuddly harriet

^kanner having his hug,he doesnt like losing his manliness in front of his laydeez though,thats jim jims in the background-the dark blue chicken,she woudnt have a hug.

^mrs templeton,AKA temple,got hand tangled in her mucky leg feathers.

a chicken flavoured week

 this week has been a very chicken themed week for self, firstly on tuesday had to bring kanner, this handsome cuckoo maran fella [a very old photo]named after leo kanner-

to the vets,theres only one in the whole of the north of england that allows chickens in and am lucky we are near it,the ark vets in cheshire.
he has killed seven hens in his field including the beloved seven year old henny of mine because his beak was ultra sharp so he needed debeaking, its a painless procedure-the beak is like the nails on humans,it just involves taking the sharp edge of but giving them a point for normal pecking.
it was funny getting him into the cat box head first with people in the vets wondering what that big feathery ass hanging out the grill on the cage was,he wasnt pleased....but a few roasted meal worms later and all was forgiven.


next,had managed to hold dexter; the only surviving japanese cochin cockerel of mine after the chicken kidnapping in june,and to be able to be able to catch him is somewhat of a feat,he has lost a load of weight since living at the farm as the chickens needs seem to be a bit neglected by the animal staff there so am hoping to go a lot more to look after them but its a petrol/money issue that gets in the way.

 -em in a sensory feedback trance from stroking dexters huge wattles.

 and then there was temple-or mrs templeton to her friends.
the poor lady is doing her once a year moulting at the moment,which means they look like theyve been dragged through a huge bush backwards and they dont lay eggs during this stage,temple being the broody sort was missing her eggs and even tried to hatch the fake ones had bought for her from chelford farm supplies.
so to cheer her up,had got a spade and began a search for worms in the raised plant boxes-worms being her most favourite thing in the world,she helped by supervising the work perched on top of neck,which made things a bit difficult must say.
there were many clinicaly obese juicy worms to be found,the other girls only managed to get the short skinny ones before temple coud get her beak in and snatch them away.

the last chicks are ready to fly the nest

am pretty damn forgetful as anyone am known by will know,so if this sounds like de ja vous please ignore it. ;)
for the past several months have been incubating and hand rearing chicks for the mum of a fellow resident here,the chicks have a superb lineage; their daddy being a purebred light sussex with gentlemanly manners [tito] and one of the japanese cochin hens for a mother [harriet,booch and jimjims],unfortunately in june tito and two other cockerels of mine [rex and jigsaw; both japanese cochins] plus booch the cochin hen were kidnapped and the survival of their personalities and lineage have been a desperation for self.

the girls and boys of the chicube etiquete school for beautiful chicks have graduated and are now waiting for new mummy to pick them up,they shoud have gone yesterday to join the other four chick bretheren and sisteren of theirs whom em had also incubated,but hoping they will come tomorow so am able to start getting used to being without them again,they shoud have actualy gone days ago but because of all the hospital business it coudnt happen.

last night had been a terrible night, this morning when had still not slept but was lying down in bed had turned around,only to see a line of chicks perched on their brooder,chickens are as blind as a bat in the dark so they probably were unable to find their way off their perch and decided to sleep there. :P

and for the past several days,as an experiment have been taking them outside and letting them get used to the outdoors,so its not a big shock to them when they go to their new mummy,they refused to stray far and were very good chicks,but they started 'chest bumping',so now am worried that theres a lot more cockerels in the group than originaly thought-

one of the cockerels,a real gentleman just like his daddy; tito, his mum is jim jims.

am hoping to breed ducks at some point,if anyone wants chucks breeding for them so they dont have to do any hand rearing work; give a contact,but no;am not able to hand pick hens only which some people think is possible.

fairfield residential and other birthday stuff

thanks to fairfield residential for the birthday presents got off them today.

got a awesome spongebob squarepants cake-still not had it yet,have had a cold coming on and its gotten really bad since this evening.
got a bottle of lynx deodorant-not been able to afford it for a long time.
got packet of yorkshire tea; which for those outside the uk is an expensive strong type of english tea bag from yorkshire-its proper tea none of that weak shit,got money,all sorts of bits-thanks very much to the exact people who put this together and gave the money for it,am not allowed to say names on here because am dragged into the office and lectured about it-well they havent done that here yet because was left near traumatised by the last time it happened when was in the other service,then again that was only for using the first letters of each name but enough about the past.

also want to say thanks to 'the rain' for ordering em a big pack of ribenas on the house shopping list,its very apreciated although its nothing to do with birthday,its something had found in the cubord when got back from the sisters today.




this is the cockrel chicken plushy/teddy had got from mum/dad-

it looks a lot better for real/not in photo and am going to try and get all of the chicken range,its from a brand called hansa,they do lots of animal toys and plushys and woud recommend looking it up got mine from amazon.


this is the tshirt got off sister-

am more a fan of cockrels because they act like theyre well hard in front of their girls and do a funny neck puffing routine when fighting other males but they are big softies around their human mum,for proof of that,this was tito this week walking around in a makeshift baby wrap;he didnt want to get out as it was warming him up,plus he was getting porridge hand fed to him.

to be fair to him actualy,temple; the hen of mine who lives in the coop with tito and lorna managed to escape out of a gap whilst we were giving both coops their daily porridge plus free ranging the other group of chickens-she only wanted some grass but she had three giant cochin cockrels chasing her around the garden-tito was stuck in his coop and was going fucking mental at them for touching his bird.
the sis says he is 'a good pimp to his girls',people have offered to buy him to, pfftt no chance.

fighting over the opposite gender-its a man thing

it was the white fella,AKA tito [named after the originaly profoundly autistic tito mukhopadhyay] ,in this shot:

VS

kanner [named after leo kanner],or mr nipper as he is afectionatly known- imagine tourettes but with nipping that tears bits of flesh out and bleeds or creates deep bruises that dont go away for many many weeks-kanner does that to people on maximum,he has done it since he was about a week old.


poor tito had his face shredded at some point last night whilst he was inside the coop,as soon as got back from mums this afternooon had noticed titos feathered covered in dried blood and was told what had happened.
luckily he doesnt need vet or OTC treatment at this stage.

am told by one of the managers who was stood in the fag area having his fag break that special needs chuck; lorna [named after lorna wing]:

was helping tito gently clean the blood off his face and body.

am sending kanner to the farm as it will give tito the hens; lorna [named after lorna wing] and temple [have a guess who she was named after] to look after without having to compete.
and kanner will be a very lucky cockrel with a huge run and a coop with one duck and a load of poor hens for him to jump on and molest lovingly protect and look after.