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medburygardens
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New Zealand
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 Posted - 05/02/2009 : 18:17:02
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Our Plymouth Barred Rocks,they are a very quite bird but not the best of layers,about six months at the most.
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 18:19:34
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 nice looking chooks  Hope they are not Collingwood supporters   , deff. not the all blacks 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 18:46:09
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Nice looking family
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 20:19:00
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Richard I do love your girls . Like MA's girls they all look so classy.Pitta.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 20:54:30
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gosh...they're beauts.
doesn't matter if they lay, richard. they make fertilizer all their live-long lives.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 22:22:34
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Oh they are so pretty Richard..I find pretty ones dont lay at all for us.
We has a grey one once we called her speckles she was a bitch of a chook always flying at us and biting our feet, we took her back to the produce store where we bought her from and her mate she was a Light Sussex and a nice chook they did not lay any eggs in the fifteen months we had them we bought then as Point Of Lay, yeah in their dreams..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2009 : 03:16:19
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| Cheryl Collingwood, is that a sports team of some kind? |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2009 : 06:09:14
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Well some think of them as a footy team I dont, not when I'm a Carlton bluebird 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2009 : 09:03:59
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oh ok,so its a soccer team......just kidding |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2009 : 09:17:45
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cheeky buggar
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2009 : 15:29:33
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They are stunning looking birds. I don't care if they don't lay - I actually do not know who lays and who doesn't but a lot are not. They are a delight to me. Like old Poppy the rooster I have had for 5 years and he was no spring chicken when I got him. His son is the lord of the manor. Poppy has a new lease on life now that I dunked his feet and legs in sump oil and his scale has gone and he is now chasing the girls again and getting into trouble with his son. And deal little Batwoman and Spic are still both mums to the little (unnamed) chick that is meant to go to his/her new home as I was only hatching out the eggs for someone but maybe they will not come back as only one egg hatched out of 6 and maybe they are cross with me. Never mind I will keep the little one. Lovely to see the two hens mothering her so determinedly and never disagreeing.
But I can only bring in new hens as eggs or day old babies. This is the "secret" as to why all of my poultry - ducks, drakes, hens, roosters, chicks, dooks - all get along so well and can share the one enclosure. But if I could get hold of some day old Plymouth hens, then I'd be in it.
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our girls