Hey House MD

[dazz1971]

has your copy of 1946 come yet im still waiting on mine damn postal strikes :evil:

i checked on play.com and it was posted on the 30th i might have to go and strangle a postie to rid myself of bordom and frustration lol

im mean i was so bored i even cooked some rice crispie cake with my stepdaughter lol

hmmm they taste mighty good tho :-P

[xX-SiLeNcE-Xx]

has your copy of 1946 come yet im still waiting on mine damn postal strikes :evil:

i checked on play.com and it was posted on the 30th i might have to go and strangle a postie to rid myself of bordom and frustration lol

im mean i was so bored i even cooked some rice crispie cake with my stepdaughter lol

hmmm they taste mighty good tho :-P

Shoulda bought it online. i bought mine, downloaded it, and played that same day :D

[Spitfire23]

Shoulda bought it online. i bought mine, downloaded it, and played that same day :D

thats what im doing now, but i bet yours didnt take long to download.

i started my download at 16:30 and its still going.

And im still usure if it will work yet.

god i wish my laptop hadn't died

[House MD 221B]

hey, yeah it came today, WHAT an ordeal... I had to install it which took over 2 hours, I had to download patches which was another hour and a half, I then had to find drivers for my joystick, another hour.

i have played it for about 30 minutes today because the rest of the day was spent, looking after my chickens, trying to get the thing to install cus my laptop's CD drive is screwy, lol

but ive downloaded hyperlobby and palyed in 1 MP game, but god i need to do some practicing, the joystick is shit so i cant land to save my life, need to buy a new one. I will try and be on tomorrow, feel free to add me on MSN if you want my email PM me.

also someone may need to show me how to use the voice, cus i have a headset but no-one else seems to hear me or reply.

But im writing a novel for a competition for the rest of the evening. I need to clock 1667 words per day, and a total of 50,000 by midnight 30th november lol

[dazz1971]

But im writing a novel for a competition for the rest of the evening. I need to clock 1667 words per day, and a total of 50,000 by midnight 30th november lol

that is cool house whats it about the novel ? and good luck with the competition mate
yea i added your msm thingy to windows messager live
like i said im still waiting for my copy to arrive then ill prob have to go throu the same ordeal as you :grin:

about the headset is it a wireless xbox 1 ?? if so you need to buy this dongle thing ive got one it lets you use your xbox controller /headsets on your pc
unfortunatly for me my dog thought it would be a good idea to customise my wireless one lol so now im stuck with the crappy wired one and im not sure if i can use that one with pc ??

[fuzzychickens]

hey, yeah it came today, WHAT an ordeal... I had to install it which took over 2 hours, I had to download patches which was another hour and a half, I then had to find drivers for my joystick, another hour.

i have played it for about 30 minutes today because the rest of the day was spent, looking after my chickens, trying to get the thing to install cus my laptop's CD drive is screwy, lol

but ive downloaded hyperlobby and palyed in 1 MP game, but god i need to do some practicing, the joystick is shit so i cant land to save my life, need to buy a new one. I will try and be on tomorrow, feel free to add me on MSN if you want my email PM me.

also someone may need to show me how to use the voice, cus i have a headset but no-one else seems to hear me or reply.

But im writing a novel for a competition for the rest of the evening. I need to clock 1667 words per day, and a total of 50,000 by midnight 30th november lol

You said chickens. Are you a grower for Tyson? I still own a chicken farm, but have family members running it while attending school.

Just curious.

[House MD 221B]

that is cool house whats it about the novel ? and good luck with the competition mate
yea i added your msm thingy to windows messager live
like i said im still waiting for my copy to arrive then ill prob have to go throu the same ordeal as you :grin:

about the headset is it a wireless xbox 1 ?? if so you need to buy this dongle thing ive got one it lets you use your xbox controller /headsets on your pc
unfortunatly for me my dog thought it would be a good idea to customise my wireless one lol so now im stuck with the crappy wired one and im not sure if i can use that one with pc ??

Thanks man, its really hard to explain, but this is the synopsis. [removed to preserve IP]


as for headset I have a PC headset for the laptop.

You said chickens. Are you a grower for Tyson? I still own a chicken farm, but have family members running it while attending school.

Just curious.

and No, me and my partner Sally, just keep 4 chickens, Poach, Angua, Miss Pennyapple, and Pecan. They're great little animals, so easy to look after and incredibly endearing to watch :) if anyone wants to consider owning chickens I recommend www.omlet.co.uk

[PantherAttack2]

When I first read 'Imperial Guard' I though, "Woah is this 40k?" :-P

[FOZ_1983]

When I first read 'Imperial Guard' I though, "Woah is this 40k?" :-P


takes me back many years!!

my "army" was the imperial guard haha, used to love it growing up. Jungle fighters of catachan, guards of valhalla, and some others that looked like colonial marines!! damn they were fun times...... until they brought out them damn aliens that used to wipe me out!!! tyranids or something i think they were called :(

[dazz1971]

do you keep chickens as pets or to get eggs ?? im just curious cause my partner kim keeps bringing up chickens so far ive managed to get her to settle for a vegtable patch but i dont think its gonna work for long
the reason i ask about eggs is cause i think you need a rooster around to get the hens to lay eggs ?? or i could of just been mistaken ?

so also keeps badgering me to get her some pigglets but i flat out said no lol :grin:

i mean between myself kim and her daughter and son we have 3 dogs 1 chocolate dobermann and 1 whippet(kims) and a 5 month old staffie pup (mine) 2 rats (kims son) and 8 guniea pigs (kims son nd daughter)

oh and 1 tropical show tank (380ltr) all of ours

i think thats quite enough animals for 1 household :grin:

sometimes i think kim and the kids would have us living in a zoo !!!!:o

[Robotic Pope]

The Hens just begin to lay eggs when they get to a certain age. You don't need them fertilized to cook and eat them

[House MD 221B]

do you keep chickens as pets or to get eggs ?? im just curious cause my partner kim keeps bringing up chickens so far ive managed to get her to settle for a vegtable patch but i dont think its gonna work for long
the reason i ask about eggs is cause i think you need a rooster around to get the hens to lay eggs ?? or i could of just been mistaken ?

so also keeps badgering me to get her some pigglets but i flat out said no lol :grin:

i mean between myself kim and her daughter and son we have 3 dogs 1 chocolate dobermann and 1 whippet(kims) and a 5 month old staffie pup (mine) 2 rats (kims son) and 8 guniea pigs (kims son nd daughter)

oh and 1 tropical show tank (380ltr) all of ours

i think thats quite enough animals for 1 household :grin:

sometimes i think kim and the kids would have us living in a zoo !!!!:o

We keep chickens as both pets and for eggs. They are remarkably easy to look after, change their water and top up their food every day, and clean them out once a week. It's a common misconception that you need grass to keep chickens, but so long as you buy a good quantity of bark chippings, they can scratch around quite happily in those.

go to the omlet website, and they do a who package of a run, an eglu (roost) and 2 chickens, plus first bag of food, and grub and glug bowls for around £300. and once you've got all that, the food is very reasonable, and chickens cost between £15 and £25 on average.

You also do NOT need a Rooster for them to lay eggs most hens lay around 300 eggs in their first year, you only need a rooster if you want them fertilized and to breed. We get about 1 a day from Poachy, her partner Scramble passed away a couple of weeks ago now, so because chickens don't do well on their own, on account of them being a flock animal, we got 3 new girls, Miss penny apple, Angua, and Pecan, all of which are point of lay hense (about 2 weeks off first lay hopefully) and we get about 6 a week off Poachy, so we should eventually get about 24 a week. But sally loves to bake, and we give some to the neighbours and friends and family etc.

also people think chickens are noisy, so cant be kept close to other residents, but thats not true either, its the ROOSTERS that make ALL the noise.

hope this helps, but check out the omlet website as the forum there is incredibly helpful, I'm on there under the same name. and prospective chicken keepers are welcome to sign up an ask questions, they're a great crowd.

[dazz1971]

We keep chickens as both pets and for eggs. They are remarkably easy to look after, change their water and top up their food every day, and clean them out once a week. It's a common misconception that you need grass to keep chickens, but so long as you buy a good quantity of bark chippings, they can scratch around quite happily in those.

go to the omlet website, and they do a who package of a run, an eglu (roost) and 2 chickens, plus first bag of food, and grub and glug bowls for around £300. and once you've got all that, the food is very reasonable, and chickens cost between £15 and £25 on average.

You also do NOT need a Rooster for them to lay eggs most hens lay around 300 eggs in their first year, you only need a rooster if you want them fertilized and to breed. We get about 1 a day from Poachy, her partner Scramble passed away a couple of weeks ago now, so because chickens don't do well on their own, on account of them being a flock animal, we got 3 new girls, Miss penny apple, Angua, and Pecan, all of which are point of lay hense (about 2 weeks off first lay hopefully) and we get about 6 a week off Poachy, so we should eventually get about 24 a week. But sally loves to bake, and we give some to the neighbours and friends and family etc.

also people think chickens are noisy, so cant be kept close to other residents, but thats not true either, its the ROOSTERS that make ALL the noise.

hope this helps, but check out the omlet website as the forum there is incredibly helpful, I'm on there under the same name. and prospective chicken keepers are welcome to sign up an ask questions, they're a great crowd.

thanks house will check out omlet site with kim for sure sounds like a plan to me

dont know where i got the idea you needed a rooster i think i was thinking along the lines that they mate and then have an egg lmao!!!! i didnt realise that they just lay eggs anyway :-)

and all those eggs would come in handy for sure :grin:

[House MD 221B]

Yeah, they're just unfertilized chicken ovulations. And there's so much you can do with them,
Cookies, quiches, cakes...
as well as poached / scrambled / fried eggs etc.

and because we feed our on organic food, and they freerange all the time and are such happy chickens, the eggs taste AMAING!

let me know what your username is on the omlet forum if you like, and if you have any questions i'll do my best to answer them.

[juz1]

Come on House...you've given them names....that makes it personal...

"yeah, I just love Gladys' unfertillised ovulations..."

Made two good friends locally who both keep chooks...One even had them as part of the house purchase! getting alot of Bantham eggs from a couple up the road...gorgeous...never want another supermarket shelf egg again! And watching my 10 month daughter chow down on something so good and natural is pricelss...
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[House MD 221B]

yeah, they're pets :P we don't eat them. lol
1) cus Sal is a veggetablist
and
2) she won't let me, even though so long as they died of natural causes, I'd have no issue with it.

Angua is a little banty, she's just a little ball of fluff, she's so cute.

http://1isf.webs.com/thegang03.jpg

http://1isf.webs.com/Angua01.jpg

http://1isf.webs.com/misspennyapple01.jpg

http://1isf.webs.com/pecan01.jpg

http://1isf.webs.com/P29-09-09_10.41.JPG

http://1isf.webs.com/P30-09-09_13.00.JPG

This is basically the standard Eglu MkII with standard Run, but we added an extra 1meter run extender because we went from having 2 chickens to 4 chickens. an Eglu can hold 2-4 chickens, maybe 5 with a couple of bantams, and the Eglu Cube can hold up to 10. They are all fox and rat proof.

[juz1]

Egg layers ain't worth it...they're not good eating anyway...

some birds 'fer eatin' ,some fer layin' as they say in Norfolk...

Can you sex them? A Vietnamese colleague of mine can, but its a rare skill in Blighty these days...
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[House MD 221B]

well I did wonder, especially because hopefully they will get to a good age, and an old bird probably wouldn't have much eating on her.

But personally, No I have no diea how to sex them, and I know one woman who has had to change breeder, because her breeder kept selling her cockerels instead of hens. kept wondering why she was getting no eggs lol

[juz1]

Miss Pennyapple looks a bit of a dirty minx...phwwooaarrr!
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[dazz1971]

err i thought all chickens were female and cockrels were the males that have those big feather tails and red crests on there heads ??

a bit like foghorn leghorn lol:grin:

[House MD 221B]

thats pretty much right, but young cockerels and POL hens (point of lay) are quick close due to adolescence. or at least thats my understanding :)

[dazz1971]

thats pretty much right, but young cockerels and POL hens (point of lay) are quick close due to adolescence. or at least thats my understanding :)

ahh i get you mate :grin:

and i think ive managed to talk myself into gettin some chickens !!??
how the hell did that happen LMAO!!!!:grin:

[House MD 221B]

lol, well drop me a line once you've had a chat with Kim, and I'll PM you my phone number, and we can arrange something if you want to.

[dazz1971]

ok house will do mate kim will be back anytime now mate tho i dont think there will be much to talk about as she has been trying to get me to let her have some chickens for ages :grin:

[House MD 221B]

They are wonderfully addictive, Sal bought the run and eglu and Poach and Scramble before we got together, then I moved in with her and the chickens :) And I probably spend more time with them fussing over them than she does. lol

And it was actually me encouraging her to get more, and unfortunately when scramble passed, we decided to get 3 more, rather than just 1.

But on the forums there are lists of what they can and can't eat, and there's a chicken clinic which is very helpful and supportive. But unfortunately chickens hide illnesses VERY well, so they're very hard to treat. But don't let it scare you, most things are quite rare or easy to treat.

and I love that on a flight sim forum there's an epic discussion about chickens, a relatively flightless bird :)

oh yes wing clipping is quite easy, but still quite scary cus you cant cut too far back or they bleed. but having seen a pro do it, it's actually very easy to cut the primary flight feather back to the length of the secondary feathers.

[dazz1971]

well this is the birds of prey forum allbeit chickens are not quite birds of prey lol :grin:

[FOZ_1983]

This is crazy!

@ THE DEVELOPERS/PUBLISHERS - do you see what you have lowered people to with your lack of a patch!! chickens!!! chickens i tell you!!! :(

now i've seen everything lol.


Dazz, by the looks of it mate unless you live in a mansion with lots of space, you dont need anymore pets. Unless you cook some of them now to make room ;)

[House MD 221B]

well this is the birds of prey forum allbeit chickens are not quite birds of prey lol :grin:

you should see them after sweetcorn or a green grape lol then they are.

[IiI GUNNY IiI]

Please take my friends request on Xbox.I would like to talk to you about the 202.And switching to IL-2 on PC.

[House MD 221B]

I'd love to, but my Xbox has RROD'd and is in frankfurt germany, being repaired.

I'll PM you my MSN address, and I'd love to chat with you about it. :) I did get your request through the website, but ive been rushed off my feet, I apologise for not getting back to you. check your PMs :)

[dazz1971]

This is crazy!

@ THE DEVELOPERS/PUBLISHERS - do you see what you have lowered people to with your lack of a patch!! chickens!!! chickens i tell you!!! :(

now i've seen everything lol.


Dazz, by the looks of it mate unless you live in a mansion with lots of space, you dont need anymore pets. Unless you cook some of them now to make room ;)

nah foz mate no mansion but a very large garden we live on the edge of town so we are surrounded by farm fields as well

the guniea pigs the 6 females have there own shed it has a hutch with a ramp that is there sleeping quarters and the floor of the shed is covered with wood chippings and saw dust and the 2 males have there own hutch outside its a 2 tier thing so they have a sleeping part and a bit to do whatever it is they do in the day lol

and the rats live in there gage on a shelf in the guniea pig shed

so its only the 3 dogs and the fishtank in the house mate :grin:


@house me and kim have decided we are going to get some chicks after christmas BUT..... i was looking on that omlet site and ive kinda fell in love with the idea of getting a runner duck!!!!! i think they look great but will have to do some more reserch and see if they can be kept with the chicks or will i have to buy 2 egloos :grin:

now see what youve got me into house lmao!!!:-P

[House MD 221B]

lol awesome! they are addictive! :) if Sal would let me I'd buy an Eglu cube, build a walk in run, and but another 6 :)

well send me a PM if your interested in seeing how we run Hentanimo Bay :) and we'll set something up at your convenience.

We've just gone through the hardest part of keeping chickens, which is introducing new birds to an original flock. And we have been very lucky. :) so if we can do it, anyone can keep chickens :)


oh and as far as keeping runner ducks with chickens, ask of the forums, i guarantee someone will know!

[dazz1971]

lol awesome! they are addictive! :) if Sal would let me I'd buy an Eglu cube, build a walk in run, and but another 6 :)

well send me a PM if your interested in seeing how we run Hentanimo Bay :) and we'll set something up at your convenience.

We've just gone through the hardest part of keeping chickens, which is introducing new birds to an original flock. And we have been very lucky. :) so if we can do it, anyone can keep chickens :)


oh and as far as keeping runner ducks with chickens, ask of the forums, i guarantee someone will know!


pm sent buddy :grin:

[House MD 221B]

cool beans, reply sent :)