I'm now a chicken keeper!

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Lovely girls, hope they're settling in well )t'
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Enjoy your girls. They have beautiful bright red combs.
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I've just found my first egg!!!!
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hel wrote:I've just found my first egg!!!!


YAY how eggciting!!! :-D
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That's great! It's a really exciting feeling finding your first egg. )c(
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Welcome to the world of chicken mad people. )wav( Love the pic of your lovely girls.
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Congratulations on finding your first egg, its a great feeling !
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chickens enhance your life have a great time watching them :-D ps theyre very beautiful girlies envy}}
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Lovely Girls you have there )t'
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The girls are settling in well, they are coming and watching us when we are in the garden. Quick question, do all veg peelings need boiling or just potatoes?
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Hi Hel, I just boil the potatoe peelings. :-D Lou x
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Mine always prefered everything boiled, but then again they were rather spoiled LOL
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Wartime advice said that hens couldn't digest potato unless it was cooked, and didn't gain much nutrition from it even cooked, so I don't usually give them it.
Other veg should be OK raw.
Mine won't eat carrot or runner beans, but like cabbage etc. - I have some old brussel sprouts stalks in the garden and I keep pulling them up and giving them one.
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Mine will only eat cooked too, except sweetcorn )t'
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