Finally,
It would be no yoke if you had to pay Council Tax on it....Date: 6/7/2009 8:01:07 AM
Author: Steel
Finally,
Ethel & Agnes saw the bank manager and their application for a mortgage was approved last week. Construction ended on the extension this week.
It is more of a holiday home than principle primary residence but not taxable because it is a temporary dwelling; it can be relocated to fresh grass on request.
Date: 6/7/2009 7:43:36 AM
Author: Lorelei
I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is gorgeous!!! How have Ethel and Agnes reacted to their new sister?
Date: 6/7/2009 8:09:29 AM
Author: Lorelei
It would be no yoke if you had to pay Council Tax on it....Date: 6/7/2009 8:01:07 AM
Author: Steel
Finally,
Ethel & Agnes saw the bank manager and their application for a mortgage was approved last week. Construction ended on the extension this week.
It is more of a holiday home than principle primary residence but not taxable because it is a temporary dwelling; it can be relocated to fresh grass on request.
Hehehe!Date: 6/7/2009 8:11:46 AM
Author: Steel
Date: 6/7/2009 7:43:36 AM
Author: Lorelei
I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is gorgeous!!! How have Ethel and Agnes reacted to their new sister?
Beautiful and psychic - is there no end to your talents Ms. Lorelei?
Hettie had a bad night last night. We popped her in the coop at about 8pm but did not lock the door as the girls were still pecking about in the daylight. It was raining lightly. DH and I then put on a DVD and went back out at a quarter to 11 to lock the door on the coop. The girls always make their own way up into the coop and al we do is shut the door and lock the pen up for the night. DH went out and the girls were up as usual but poor little Hettie had made her own way down from the coop and was (shivering - we think) in the corner of the pen and it was pelting rain. So she must have come out and managed down the ladder (or flew) on her own but not been able to get back up. We felt very guilty. When DH put her back up somebody (probably Hettie) had laid an egg with a very thin shell that had almost melted on the coop floor. We think it is Hettie's egg as the girls already laid earlier in the day and their shells are fine now-a-days. So bless her cotton socks for getting stuck in the rain - after she tried to give us an egg. Awh.
Agnes (she not of the white neck feathers) seems to be bullying Hettie. She pecked her in the neck yesterday. But apart from that and a lot of beady eye we have not witnessed any scuffles.
If they do not get on we will build another coop.
Whooooo for hens and soon to be 3 eggs a day!
Date: 6/7/2009 8:16:35 AM
Author: Lorelei
Hehehe!
Poor little girl!Dear little soul....Chickens just melt my heart.
You should be ok and they will sort out the pecking order fairly soon, just keep an eye out for any blood or injuries, if so separate them at once until healed. But this is very unusual and as they are young they should rub along well enough together.
So how are you serving your fresh eggs Steelie? Still on toast soldiers with softly boiled eggs, or are you scrambling, frying, poaching or even making cakes now you will have around 21 eggs a week?
Date: 6/7/2009 8:28:22 AM
Author: Steel
Date: 6/7/2009 8:16:35 AM
Author: Lorelei
Hehehe!
Poor little girl!Dear little soul....Chickens just melt my heart.
You should be ok and they will sort out the pecking order fairly soon, just keep an eye out for any blood or injuries, if so separate them at once until healed. But this is very unusual and as they are young they should rub along well enough together.
So how are you serving your fresh eggs Steelie? Still on toast soldiers with softly boiled eggs, or are you scrambling, frying, poaching or even making cakes now you will have around 21 eggs a week?
DH is currently baking an apple pie and that pastry took 2 small eggie weggies. I have an egg with soldiers for breakfast most mornings and sometimes DH joins me (but he prefers to have poached eggies). As you know we are building and we make lunch every day for one of our labourers who is giving us ''mates rates''; DH makes egg mayonaise once or twice a week for sarnies (ETA: for him and the labourer, which saves me € in shopping as I have to buy one less pack of ham for lunches) which goes down a treat! After that we are out of eggs hence the arrive of young Hettie. We need more eggies!
Thanks for asking! I will pass your compliments on to Hettie when I go out.
Thanks Lorelei. Trouble is, Lissey never left home. She would sit outside but never venture from the house. Henry often goes walkabout but not Lissey. That said, I will try not to get disheartned. I will admit to a bit of light sobbing while I posted her pictures but that is just between you and me.Date: 6/8/2009 12:12:20 PM
Author: Lorelei
Oh no.....Hang in there Steel, sometimes they do a bit of roaming this time of year - don't lose heart!
(((((((hugs)))))))Date: 6/8/2009 12:21:55 PM
Author: Steel
Thanks Lorelei. Trouble is, Lissey never left home. She would sit outside but never ventrure from the house. Henry often goes walkabout but not Lissey. That said, I will try not to get disheartned. I will admit to a bit of light sobbing while I posted her pictures but that is just between you and me.Date: 6/8/2009 12:12:20 PM
Author: Lorelei
Oh no.....Hang in there Steel, sometimes they do a bit of roaming this time of year - don''t lose heart!
Thank you for caring.Date: 6/8/2009 12:23:25 PM
Author: Lorelei
(((((((hugs)))))))Date: 6/8/2009 12:21:55 PM
Author: Steel
Thanks Lorelei. Trouble is, Lissey never left home. She would sit outside but never ventrure from the house. Henry often goes walkabout but not Lissey. That said, I will try not to get disheartned. I will admit to a bit of light sobbing while I posted her pictures but that is just between you and me.Date: 6/8/2009 12:12:20 PM
Author: Lorelei
Oh no.....Hang in there Steel, sometimes they do a bit of roaming this time of year - don''t lose heart!
Is it possible she is shut in anywhere, do you have neighbours with outbuildings?
Date: 7/14/2009 6:53:19 AM
Author: Lorelei
Bump.
I would like to know eggsactly how the girls are doing.
BROOOOOOWARK to you too!Date: 7/14/2009 5:16:20 PM
Author: Steel
Date: 7/14/2009 6:53:19 AM
Author: Lorelei
Bump.
I would like to know eggsactly how the girls are doing.
Broooowark!
It is only this week that our girls have gotten over their issues and we are on day 3 (I think) of 3(three) eggs a day! I could make pavlova all day long we have so many eggs! Whoooo hoooo!
Hettie has settled in as a fully fledged member of the feathered family and is no longer being bullied by Agnes.
The Holiday Village is a firm feathered favourite and the girls visit every evening to stretch their claws.
Thanks for asking. I will try to get some pictures asap. You have to see their rubber gloves- they are spectacular.
How are your girls doing?