went for 8, came home with 12!!

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went for 8, came home with 12!!

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Today finally arrived - the rescue date for our new chickens!

I have, as you know been very impatiently waiting for this day for the last couple of weeks :oops: .

We got in the car and my OH said we had decided to have 8 and that was it,
so when we got to the collection point and the lovely people there said they had a few extra, did we want some more?. So we did :!: :!:
we put 10 in the cage and then decided we had room for 2 more :!:ha ha .

So we came home with 12 new girls who are happily settling into their new pen, they have been stretching in the mud and pecking at the grass - we are just waiting for it to get dark so we can put them to bed, they don't seem to have noticed the coop yet!!

Will try and post pics soon )t'

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Thankyou so much Kirsty for taking those extra 4 lucky girls, they are just irrisistable, enjoy your new girls, such a beautiful day to be rescued lets hope the sun shines for them tomorrow xx
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Well done Kirsty. I hope your girls have a good night and settle in to their new life quickly.

Pics please too!
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12 :shock: good on you!!!! I got three to add to my three hybrids. I think I am going to have to help them to bed too as they don't seem to know what the ramp up to the coop is for :-D
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That's brilliant! 12 lives saved. Lucky girls )t'
I hope they'll have a good first night!
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Good on ya...well 8-12 who would know ....tell you who those little ladies who are now happily munging about at your house )c(
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hehe, know how you feel !

Hope all goes well with them - well done!

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How lovely and lucky to have taken 12. I haven't even got 12.
I went not expecting to have any and bought home 3. I have to rush out tomorrow and get some mash. That is how unprepared I am.
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Wendy, did you have to bring home three as there were more chooks than expected or did you have a no show? )ro(
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)c( )c( )c( Well done you )c( )c( )c(

Sounds like 12 very lucky chickens, can't wait to see some pics please.
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it was our pleasure juicylucy, if we had more space in the car we would have had a couple more. (f+ (f+

They are settling in beautifully - the existing 6 have given them a very noisy welcome from the other side of the fence!

Will try for pics tomorrow - there's a first time for everything!
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Well done Kirsty! )t' Hope they all do well. Looking forward to seeing the pics!
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well done you - its nice to know that I was not the only one, when we went to collect our ladies we went for 6 and they told us they had a few to many and could we take any more , we came home with 8!! (hubby still thinks 8 is too many and would like to rehome 2 of them )dwn:
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FANTASTIC!!! )c(

Well done for giving them a great home .... is there such a thing as too many chickens?! confused>
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Well done for giving them a great home .... is there such a thing as too many chickens?!


NO never heard of such a thing as too many!!! )t'
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