{"id":3888,"date":"2013-04-26T17:05:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2013-04-26T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:12:42","slug":"getting-new-girls-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3888","title":{"rendered":"Getting new girls next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we went to a farm in Amersham which is about twenty miles from us, to look at some bantams. We had already decided that we wouldn’t bring any back with us today because we have now been asked to babysit our grandchildren aged four and one tomorrow afternoon at their house. Also next weekend is a long weekend as it’s May day bank holiday so this would be a good time to integrate new girls, as we would have more time to spend with them.<\/p>\n

I have now discounted a wyndotte as they only had white ones. The thing I love about wyndottes is the pretty colours and especially the laced ones with different coloured edges to their feathers. I love the vorwerks and the brown leghorns are pretty too. The thing I am not sure of with the leghorns is that I have read that they can be loud and I have to bare in mind the neighbours. Also the brown leghorn is very similar looking to Bluebell and I wanted to add variety.<\/p>\n

I did wonder whether to have two vorwerks and a brown leghorn so that I would be adding three to the existing three and would have three pairs of similar looking girls. My husband said his only concern with this is that they could be noisy (again thinking of the neighbours) so now I am thinking we may go for two vorwerks. The lady only had two vorwerks to sell (loads of brown leghorns) so I have asked her to reserve them for me.<\/p>\n

I took some photos of them so that I could refer to them once back home.<\/p>\n

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Bantam brown leghorn on the bottom perch<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bantam vorwerk with the dark neck, centre of photo<\/p><\/div>\n

It was hard not to bring them home today but it will give me a week to think about it. They were hatched late last summer so are just past point of lay. They mature slower when hatched late in the year (which I experienced with Dotty) and have just started laying. I liked the idea of younger ones but am thinking at this age they will probably integrate easier and can also have the same feed and treats so easier all round really.<\/p>\n

I am excited but nervous as I am about to rock our girls world! I really hope that once they are used to the change they will be happier in a bigger flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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