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Uno is very special. She's not only hatched a large clutch of her own but naturally adopted Jellybean's clutch when she passed unexpectedly. Now the chicks are 9 weeks old, Uno has a giant puddle of gold surrounding her. Isn't it wonderful?
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No, I haven't grown a beard. This is Hugh, my fabulous husband who runs the account
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and who has taken over chicken duties while I can't get to the field.
I love watching the team with him. I'm very lucky to be married to him.
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We're often asked why our hens that we sell are so friendly. This is why they're handled from day 1 and grow up spending time with us.
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I'm still here! Just a quick selfie in my home hospital bed to show I'm still around. I might not be with the chickens but I'm still here! Thank you for all of your kind messages.
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It's been 2 days of lows and highs with our small flock.
Yesterday we sadly and unexpectedly lost the wonderful Jellybean who had 3 week old chicks. Uno stepped in & has merged her and Jellybeans chicks into a GIANT brood. Good little Uno 🥰
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Today, the weather has been HORRIBLE. Liquorice very sensibly took her tiny chicks back to their coop. She also took them to bed early, and I managed to capture this set of images. Watching the chicks fall to sleep is just priceless.
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You might have noticed there has been no chicken content from me for a number of days.
Unfortunately, it will be months before I will be back to normal. In the words of the surgeon, "You've managed to explode the tibia and fibula bones."
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Uno is our super broody. Uno believes that every chick in the world belongs to her.
It makes it very easy to give her extra chicks. All we have to do is lift her slightly from the front and pop the chicks underneath her. She took to them brilliantly as we knew she would.
Cabbage swingball!
We had a cabbage that had sustained quite a lot of caterpillar damage, so the chickens benefit from a treat direct from the vegetable patch.
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Hello! My name is Fiona, and I live in the UK. I run a smallholding with my husband Hugh, where we breed Buff Orpington chickens, grow our own food, and try to be as self-sufficient as possible.
Welcome to my account!
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Taffy brought her chicks out of the coop and into the sunshine today. They're in a large walk-in run, so the chicks have a chance to find their feet before Taffy roams in the field with the flock.
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Skye has chicks! There may be more chicks hidden underneath her, but as today is hatch day, it might be some time before we see them.
This will be our last hatch of this year, so prepare yourself for chick-spam!!!
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Why do I spend so much time with my chickens?
For two reasons. First, it is good for my mental health and helps me reset my brain. Second, it allows me to handle the chickens easily, so for suspected health issues, I can take action swiftly
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This is Gannet in 2019 with her last clutch of chicks. She was the last of our original Orpingtons and became a cherished pet.
At the ripe old age of 8 Gannet passed away quietly in her sleep last night.
She will be missed.
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After 3 months of only being able to watch my team from over the fence, I'm finally back with them.
I apologise for the lack of a longer video but I was so excited that I forgot to film. Of course, first on my knee was Sassy!
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Our broody hens are just so chilled. This is Skye, who is due to hatch in just over a week. More chicks... whoo hoo!!!!
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Skye is in full-scale brood moult. 7 days after she hatched her chicks, she started to shed old feathers and grow new ones.
What's lovely in this video is the little chick on the right copying Skye's behaviour and shake it out, too.
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Good Morning Floofs!
Does anyone remember the homemade chicken swing that I set up 6 months ago, that has NEVER been used? Well guess what? I caught Moyet having a quiet swing this morning until Lennox decided to join her...😱
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I was asked to show more of Uno & her followers. I call them followers because her chicks follow her, she no longer sleeps in their coop or seeks them out. She is happy to hang around them as part of the wider flock rather than as her chicks.
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Orkney with her brood in the summer of 2023. I love the moments when the chicks wriggle into her feathers and disappear.
Our UK poultry keeping online shop is still operating normally despite my broken leg.
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I've picked up Sindy from her brood nest and popped her outside so that she eats, drink, bathes and poops.
Keep watching. The explosion of pent up energy is worth watching!
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After yesterday's torrential rain and LOTS of soggy chickens, I thought a little bit of TLC for the flock was needed. OK, so it was for me too!
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This is Uno the Orpington.
Uno hatched four chicks last month.
Uno believes every chick in the world belongs to her.
Uno now has 16 chicks who have been persuaded away from other broody hens
Is she naughty or a gem?
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Good Morning Floofs!
Sindy has ventured outside with the chicks. She's just walking around her coop but she is starting to show the around. Tomorrow....the field?
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It will soon be time to see sights like this in our orchard. It's 20 days until Puffin hatches her eggs.
This is Jellybean with her brood last year. It's wonderful seeing the relationship between hen and chicks.
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I think it's safe to say that at just under 7 weeks old, Taffy's chicks are seen as full members of the flock. Good job, Taffy!
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Taffy is allowing her chicks to spend a little more time closer to the other adults. Watch her chickks dart under the hens to steal tiny pieces of apple!
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So what do you think of the new hair colour? I needed to do something for myself, and my natural dull brown roots were showing through a little too much for my liking, so vibrant red/auburn it is!
What do you think?
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Puffin the Orpington has already raised 11 youngsters this year who are now 12 weeks old.
She now has a 2nd clutch of chicks that's she's hatched and just look at them! They're only a few days old, so they're staying close to Mum for now.
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As I can't film any slo-mo chickens at the moment due to the broken leg, here's Taffy in late Spring 2023 with her 1st brood of the year. Yes, they were all hers. She was a super-broody.
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Watching the chicks come out of the coops every morning is so wonderful. They leap, they fly, they chestbump, and they leap over each other.
This is Pelican, the Orpington's brood, showing how mornings should be tackled.
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Now that Jellybean's chicks have wings they're practising gaining some height. What better (and safer) way is there to learn what their wings can do than flying onto Jellybean's back?
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This is still one of the greatest joys of my life.
It was a great way to end an intense work day. Stress just melts away.
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We had beautiful blue skies this morning, but around noon, I noticed the team all heading for shelter either in the coops or under the coops. Heavy grey clouds rolled in. We even had thunder and lightning at one point. Clever chooks!
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It is a flood of floofs, but there's always one that doesn't realise everyone has charged towards me. She gets the hint in the end! 🤣
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This is where Puffin and her chicks live overnight. The auto-opener on their coop opens at dawn to let them into the run where they are safe, until we are up and about and open the gate to let them free range
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I started keeping chickens so that I could have a steady supply of beautiful fresh eggs. Fast forward over the years, and I now breed Buff Orpington chickens, but most of all, I find a sense of peace spending time with small flock.
Everyone needs a happy place.
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Taffy's French Copper Black Marans chicks and Cream Legbar chicks are doing incredibly well. Today, I gave them some overripe tomatoes straight from the greenhouse, and they loved their first taste of tomatoes.
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Kale for the ladies. Hugh took this film for me while I'm not able to get out... but I have plans to safely see the floofs!!! It may take me a week, but I'll be seeing them without compromising my recovery (hopefully) 🥰
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I post a lot of videos showing the flock in slow-motion. Tonight, instead, I present the little velociraptors at 6 weeks old at normal speed and my, oh my, do they have some speed to them!
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Jellybean was teaching her chicks to dustbathe today. To be fair, they're at the "watch and learn" stage. Give it couple of days and they'll be rolling around too!
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Jellybean has her hands full... her chicks at 2 weeks old have discovered they have wings! Lots of flapping and jumping.... it's only a matter of time before they're on the high perches and in the apple trees..... 😳
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August is where we have the best combination of chickens. We have the adults, the 1st clutch hatched this year are 16 weeks old, youngsters at 9, 7, 4, 3 & 2 weeks all running together. Laying hens, brood hens, and youngsters all in harmony.
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