How judgmental are you?

Had a lovely Rhode Island Red called Henny Penny ,she never went broody,we had her from a day old chick,she used to come indoors and follow me around and talk to me,on a cold day we would sit around the log burner,on the settee ,,Labrador and chicken,on the rug,two rabbits,on my lap in the rocking chair 3 guinea pigs....getting carried away,but Henny used to come in to the bedroom in the morning and sit on the bed next to me,where I would stroke her and she would lay her egg for me,never any mess...also had ducks...Henny has now been adopted when we moved,but missed the character of chickens so much we adopted 5 from a neighbour who wanted to stop keeping them...

I have silver-laced wyandottes, Bags They're pretty but daft as well .

merlot we will have two of the DGC living with us so they will need to be child friendly.

Black Rocks are good for eggs but they are a cross breed. We had a Welsummer, and some Scots Greys (feisty survivors in a cool, damp climate! also good layers), and some blue-laced wyandottes. Pretty but daft.

If you are likely to have small DGCs visiting, glass it's a good idea to go for the gentler breeds. Orpingtons, Barnevelders and Welsummers are lovely to have around and you can even be really trendy and colour co-ordinate your hens with your house and garden.

Thanks merlot I will do, I will get on to Amazon, some good bedtime reading.

glass, If you want them just for eggs have a look at a poultry keeping book which gives you the breeds which produce the largest number of eggs per year. I keep Welsummers for their lovely dark brown eggs. Marans hens eggs are really dark brown as well. My Cream Legbars produce pale blue eggs and the Barnevelders produce speckled brown ones. I sell cartons of mixed colours in the village. Very trendy these days.

Glass, no I could not, I was glad they didn't bring it with them as a gift!

merlot I have the hen house ready to go up when we get into the house, not decided on breeds yet.

Meant hen! Iam not a he!

As a he brained contributed to this thread, does this mean that you could breed me?

Oh thats old could you eat the last egg I dont know!

It can if you want it to, we could discuss free range eggs or not ?

It's fun though! Friends who came to stay recently 'lost' their final chicken just before they set out, gave her a decent burial but wondered what to do with her last egg laid moments before she left this life. They ate it but felt weird doing so .
Now that reduces this thread to the realms of the ridiculous....

It can do....

Yes, glass I breed pure breed poultry. Sorry to add to the weirness of the threads tonight. Poultry keeping doesn't really have anything to do with this thread does it?

I shall go into a deep decline! Bags

oops. Sorry, banana.

Yep! jeni has called me Bagpuss more than once so tough luck, ogm!

Hi ninnynana, just went back to the old thread regarding Prime Minster, I'm a little bit confused, on this thread, yes did say get a bit fed up with people who drone on about the DM being the route to all evil, or something along those lines. I like to read a range of newspapers and sometimes the DM is one of those, as well as The Times and the Independent. One of my sons buys the Guardian and the other (occasionally) buys the Sun. Neither would be my option for different reasons. I do regard a newspaper a personal choice and as such don't feel I have to fall out with people about what they read, but similarly don't expect them to judge me on what I read as we are not all one dimensional. However, whilst I don't share all the same views politically as say Greatnan, I have nevertheless found myself in complete agreement with her on subjects such as female subjugation of women within religion as it seems we were both schooled by Catholic nuns and probably have strong views on the Catholic church, although unlike her I'd probably describe myself as a questioning believer, but I am sympathetic towards people who aren't. I don't really have a problem with not sharing the same views as others on a forum such as this and certainly would not expect to. I don't consider anyone should call a halt to a thread for reasons such as "they feel it's disruptive" I think it should burn itself out when the subject matter has been exhausted and we don't all have to agree, who does? Going back to the Prime Minster thread, I think I was in agreement with you there about coming out of the Human Rights Act as here in the UK we seem to have signed up to it lock stock and barrel whilst quite a few other EU countries seems to use their discretion in what they will and wont adopt and for me it seems to penalise our citizens. I would not agree with you about capital punishment as this would never sit easy with me as I don't believe the state has the right to take a life and it's one of the things I find unpalatable about some states in America, where in spite of not being left here, I'm sure I'd vote Democrat there. I don't agree with not having some sort of free health service for the poorest section of society. Moving on to tattoos not a fan, one of my son's has 4, don't like them think the body looks better without drawings on it but that's me don't expect everyone else to agree.

Sorry if I am backtracking a bit, but marelli thinks she was confused, she has nothing on me! merlot are you a poultry keeper?

I think Bags may already have beaten you to it! I quite like the idea of being TopCat. I loved that cartoon - he was a sort of feline Bilko.

Is it me, or are the threads weird tonight?

I baggy be 'Bagpuss'..... said very quickly before someone beats me to it