Thread: My Splendid Cock

Originally Posted by malmomike77

I don't think that's true, he used post up pics of it regularly and send them to Lulu through repo

I do have long arms

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

I do have long arms

You have previously mentioned your genetic heritage

Originally Posted by Mendip

I took this picture of Nelson the day before we left Korat for our holiday in Bangkok and Ol' Blighty, so I haven't seen him for three weeks now.

I miss him a bit to be honest, but spare a thought for Reg Dingle.

I heard that he hasn't seen his cock for two decades!

Your chook pen is cleaner and more organised than most.
Adding geese and ducks to these fowl experiments would be essential, Mendy......if one is gonna do it right.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Adding geese and ducks to these fowl experiments would be essential, Mendy

Would you open a Mendy thread titled "Have a Gander at this" ?

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Adding geese and ducks to these fowl experiments would be essential, Mendy......if one is gonna do it right.

You've got me thinking now...

I used to keep ducks with the hens when I was a kid, but they do make a lot of mess so I haven't thought about it in Korat.

But... I do prefer ducks, they have great characters and are fun to watch, and the occasional duck egg wouldn't go amiss. I still have the bath from the upstairs bathroom and I'm now thinking of building an extension to the chicken run, setting the bath into the ground to make a small pond, and getting a few ducks to join my flock. It'll give me something to do.

Do Ducks and chickens get on?

^ Yeah, they do.

We used to use broody bantams to hatch out duck eggs and the chicks were very confused.


I've only been back a couple of days and yesterday morning I went to check on a broody jungle fowl hen and much to my surprise a chick had hatched out overnight.



As it hatched on the wife's Birthday I thought it would be nice to name the chick after the missus, to mark the day.

Meet little 'Fuhrer'!



I have the cock that never rests... even when I'm away it works tirelessly.

Congrats on another child, Nelson!

A splendid looking cock in the early morning light.

While wise avoid hen parties these are splendid pictures of your menagerie, do you put ducks in the big pond where predators might bother?

Originally Posted by Mendip

I have the cock that never rests..

No wonder it is so red in the top.

And black and blue round the centre

Originally Posted by Mendip

^

tune in to see Mendip choke his chicken

What kind of Sasquatch arm is chocking that chicken? And a leftie.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

And a leftie.

Well, I've had some insults in my time...

I'm very much a 'rightie', hence my watch worn on the left wrist. I used my right hand to hold the phone for the pic.

If I was to 'choke a chicken', as Mike puts it, I would use my right hand as I wouldn't be taking a photo.


Yesterday, Fuhrer was introduced to the big wide world. The second egg hadn't developed and was liquid inside.



I'd noticed these three idiot broody hens who spend all their time sat atop one another, crammed into a nest box.



So I prepared the newly vacated 'broody hutch' for them, thinking that they'd enjoy the three weeks incubation period sitting next to each other.



I managed to transfer two of the broody hens but the third flew off and wouldn't let me get near.



I checked on the two this morning and as soon as I opened the hutch doors, they both immediately flew out. The eggs were stone cold and the birds obviously hadn't settled on their clutches, as I had hoped.



What a mess the bedding was in... the Reg Dingles of the chicken world.