Buff Orpingtons and other things.

about Charlie and the chickens.

2011-04-30T04:03:00.000-07:00

hello everybody!!!! Well i am going to start with Charlie. Anyway Charlie has just done a post and it says about him playing football with me well his version of playing football is i kick the ball he leaps up and catches it and then he will never give the ball back and he just holds on to it trying to rip it apart and that's what he calls football! One of the funnest games to play is piggy in the middle with Charlie and Charlie is the piggy and me and dad throw it to each other while he leaps up to get it - he is really quite good at it!! All the chickens are good and we are now into the mating season....... we have two broody hens ( broody means they start to lay on eggs for 21 days hoping they will hatch ) but the unfortunate thing is we think George ( one of our cockerels ) is unfertile. But we will find out if that is true when the hens have layed on the eggs for 21 days. Are chickens are all really stupid because we have to take them off their eggs because otherwise they dont get off their eggs and therefor will starve to death!!!! You would think they would realise when they got hungry they had to quickly come off there eggs and get a bite to eat! Broody hens are allowed off their eggs for up to 20 minutes so its not like they have no time!! This is a bit off the subject but my friend has just started a blog called www.petsatmaltings.blogspot.com and its all about the pets she has got and the pets she would like - its a lovely blog and it would be really nice if you could check it out and maybe leave a comment about one of her posts. Well i have to go now but i will post soon!! Bye!!!!

the latest doggy update

2011-04-30T03:47:00.000-07:00

woof woof, Hello how are you all?? i am REALLY good thanks! i have been playing outside in the garden with my owner and we have been playing some football..... i think i could personally be in the England team!! My best friend Luigi has now got a companion dog called Nero you will have to check out his blog - www.my-humans.blogspot.com

i think he is quite nice but he does spend his whole time licking humans! Luigi really isn't that keen on him - but i suppose he would be quite annoying to live with but he is a puppy you must be patient with him!!! I had this amazing walk the other day with my family and at the end my owner accidentally dropped some of her ice - cream - yummy yum yum!!!!! My favourite thing to eat is still Cheese though. I have also taken to ham but i only get ham as a treat!! this is a picture of my new friend Nero and a very irritated Luigi!!! that's all for now doggy friends but i will speak to you soon, woof woof!!!!!!!! ( ;

HELOOOO

2011-03-21T12:51:00.000-07:00

HELOOOO everybody!!!! Its Charlie! How are you all? I have had a great time lately even if i have been a tiny bit naughty and my owner is quite cross with me - she didn't even give me my breakfast just because i ran away i mean how mean can you get? I went on this amazing walk and i saw hares and rabbits and deers and all sorts. Yesterday i had a special treat - cheese - i absolutely love cheese it is by a long way the best food ever! Anyway it was put in my dinner mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yum! Anyway my owners calling got to go, by for now!

Ben

2011-03-21T12:42:00.000-07:00

Hello - its Ben's owner. There is some very very sad news Ben died very sadly of old age yesterday. He was the best Guinea- pig in the whole wide world and i will miss him very much. I was playing on the trampoline and i saw charlie with ben inbertween his two front paws and i just thought hmm ben wouldnt normally let Charlie do that and when i went over to look Charlie was sniffing Ben and that was when i realised Ben had died. I am really sad but he had a very good life and i loved him very much and i also think charlie and the other animals did too. Thank - you Ben for being such an amazing guinea- pig and making me a very happy girl.

gorgeous George

2010-03-25T04:29:00.000-07:00

Hello again, i am first going to talk about one of my chickens, Gorgeous George. As you have seen in the picture of him, he's... well to be honest pretty full of himself! He always acts as if he's perfectly in control and he knows what he's doing, even when Mini is having hysterics! He just s..l..o..w..l..y wonders over acting as if nothings going badly when actually Mini's making a racket in the hen house!! I have a funny feeling that he thinks i am a chicken, because when i open the door of there hen house he

thinks i have just come out of the hen house and gets behind me and hurries me along! George also likes a lot of hens and he has been mating with: both jubilee's all of his girls and Henna & Lola! Wow thats a lot of hens, he's one

busy chicken.But hopefully we may get some chicks in the summer so fingers crossed!!

pictures of new and old animals

2010-03-23T03:42:00.000-07:00

Hello again! here are some

pictures of my chickens, here

is pebble ( the grey small Cochin ) and George

( the clearly gorgeous one! ) and Ken ( the other

rooster ) I am sorry i haven't got any pictures of Mini or the Twins, i will try and take some photo's of them soon. Bye for now, Hightown xx

round-up

2010-03-22T09:42:00.000-07:00

Hello again, i have sad and happy news to tell you, the bad news is Kensuke's girls have unfortunately died ) : in the process of hatching eggs, they had gone off to lay eggs and hatch them but a fox got them both ) ; but the good news is we have got new chickens!! We have a new

cockerel called George who is a Buff Sussex and his nickname is Gorgeous George! And he came with 3 other hens, Mini the Minx, and the twins. and we also have a adorable Cochin Pebble, she's Kens best friend

and Ken's taken a liking to Pebble, we may have some chicks, if we can find an incubator. George has been mating with his girls, Henna, Lola

and the other 2 hen Henrietta and Nancy the two Jubilee Orpingtons!!

I will soon do a post of pictures of the new chickens. Ben's still alive surprisingly because he is 6 years old now!! Charlie's Still adorable

but he's rather naughty at the moment!! He has been running off on walks! Goodbye

Hightown xx

fertile egg and other things

2009-06-03T03:34:00.000-07:00

GUESS WHAT!! We got an egg to pip! ( crack ) but unfortunately it died ) :

so we cracked it open and it was really cool because you could see its feet and head and wings! We have only had one egg pip but we don't think any others will pip unfortunately. I would of put a picture of it on the post but we forgot and put the egg and embryo in the bin sorry. But since it was our first go at hatching eggs we were pleased we got one to pip. Here is a picture of a box that I made into a chicken town! There is a 5 star chicken hotel a beauty salon for chickens, a chicks box to store them in while you go away and a chicken dance floor! Bye for now

Hightown

The pigs

2009-06-01T07:28:00.000-07:00

Hello, again it's smudge and hodgepodge!! We have been having the best time ever this summer!! We have been doing loads, firstly Mum now gets out the hose and waters are pen and we get to drink out of the hose and play with it and Daddy extended are pig run!! Smudge: I have mostly been escaping this week and last week! Me and hodgepodge escaped on Sunday it was so much

fun!! We were out for quite a while we ate grass and trotted about, it was hilarious because some people stopped there big mechanical fast pigs! ( Cars )

We had LOADS of fun!! Anyway i have to go because Hodgepodge is saying " ooh it's my go! ) Bye bye Smudge.

Hodgepodge: Hello, when daddy extended the pig run we were put next to the chickens, they don't half make a racket when you shove your nose through the fence when they are standing next to it!! It's quite funny to watch! It's really weird because my Mum goes on this big thing that's black with blue round the edge and when they go on it they are like pogo sticks, and they bounce backwards and forward it's really amazing to watch. Does any of your parents do that?? anway got to go because the humans are saying they can smell something pig like!

RUN smudge RUN!!

Hodgepodge

Ben

2009-05-14T08:49:00.000-07:00

Hello there, Sorry i haven't written in for ages i have been rather busy.

Firstly i have just been moved into a new hutch were what they move about

so that i can get more grass, and it's GREAT!! In the morning now i can hop out of my cosy bed and eat some fresh grass, and then my Mum will come out and give me carrot or lettuce and some guinea pig food. The really annoying thing when i am outside is Charlie always lays outside the pen watching me and wagging his tail! He is such a silly creature!! Anyway i feel ssssssoooo important in this 5 star house. And my mother quite often picks me up and sits down and feeds me dandelions! Oh and for all you guinea pigs i would tell your owner that dandelions are REALLY scrumptious, and please do give me some. The best way is to go to a patch and eat them very happily and then when they are finished started weeping for more. Oh and the picture above is me saying hello to Charlie, It was rather annoying because when i said hello he cocked his head and then he Gave me a quick nudge, it was very impolite anyway mother is telling me to come off now, so bye bye

from The best guinea pig in the world

Chicks!!

2009-05-11T03:34:00.000-07:00

Hello there I have some exiting news for you,

on Saturday me my sister and my mum went to a

local poultry show and we brought some fertilized eggs! We thought it would be a good idea because we thought that maybe Lola ( the

broody hen ) would be satisfied if she hatched some eggs. I brought 6 black orpingtons and mum and my sister brought

6 welsummers and 6 Mar

ans. Here is a

picture of the types of chickens The top one is a black orpington and the one on the right is a maran and the one below is a wellsummer. Please comment and say which one is your favourite. Of course it we dont know even if any of them will hatch, I am just hoping it turns out OK Hope you enjoy this post,

Hightown ( :

Charlie's news

2009-05-07T03:57:00.000-07:00

Woof, hello again!! Sorry that i haven't wrote for absolutely ages. Today on my walk

we ( well more like I ) Did the usual thing, dive into loads of hedges, but today something really fun happened i found a rabbit!! The rabbit was very ill ) :

but i had great fun jumping around it and playing with it, even though it didn't move ) :

it only did a bit of shuffling. Has any of you dogs noticed how slow and lazy humans are? They are REALLY REALLY lazy, and if you go a bit to far they just whistle you back because they are to lazy to come and find you! So i just go into a far hedge and ignore them ( it can be really funny to watch them when you go away, they look so silly!! I saw my best friend Luigi, we played fighting and then after a bit we go to sleep

but this time we ripped up loads of toys and stuff! Mummy got a bit cross thought ) :

but it was great fun so it doesn't really matter. If your pack leader is really annoying you just say because I will give you some tips. Oh and by the way, is your mum REALLY

spoilt? Mine is because they always get loads of really yummy food, and they get funny coloured water! You know the pigs, smudge and hodgepodge they get white coloured water and loads of green food. it just isn't fair. So i am going to go off in a huff now.

Lola

2009-03-25T07:14:00.002-07:00

I have been having a lot of trouble with Lola ( one of my buff orpingtons). It all started about 4 weeks ago when she started to lay on her eggs, but first i thought she was just being a bit silly and just wanting to keep dry but she wouldn't get off them and stopped eating and drinking. I started to get really worried because we would lift her out of her egg box but she would come out for about 1 minute and then wander back in. She was a lot skinnier than Henna ( the other buff) but when we got her out of the nesting box she would fluff herself up and lay there for ages. If you ever have a hen like this all you have to do is shut her out of the egg box and soon she should stop. Hope this is useful for the chicken keepers,

Hightown

more pictures

2009-02-24T03:30:00.001-08:00

Here are some more pictures:

The pigs ( hodgepodge and raisin ), the buffs, Ben, Charlie when he was young.

Stuff about pigs

2009-02-23T03:27:00.000-08:00

There are quite a lot of different type of pigs such as the Saddleback, the ridgeback and

Oxford sandy and blacks

Ben talking;

And Guinea pigs, that are of course the best type of pigs! Saddleback pigs

Hattie talking; Yes just like Ben to say that! Anyway were was I? Oh yes Pigs

are lovely animals and they love attention and they like to be warm and cosy.

We suggest on making a small shelter made out of straw with a tarpaulin to keep them dry. Pigs can be a bit naughty on the first couple of days trying to escape all the time, and you always have to keep the electric fence on because they always test to see if its on. Pigs never jump but they do go under so make sure the electric fence is very low down. hope you like the post

Hightown

Smudge

2009-02-09T10:28:00.000-08:00

I got a new pig, Smudge. We decided that we would get another pig for Hodgepodge since Raisin died. So we decided to get Smudge. Smudge is really sweet and Hodgepodge and her get on really well. They love to nock over the buckets of water and food! As soon as I put the food down and warm milk they go MAD!! They are both really good friends, when we first got Smudge Hodgepodge gave an anxious oink and then wandered over,

gave an exited oink and... nudged Smudge on the shoulder and Hodgepodge showed Smudge the best places to sleep. Hope you like the pigs,

Hightown

The Pigs view of things

2009-02-06T07:34:00.000-08:00

( Raisin talking)
Hello, are names are Hodgepodge and Raisin, we are Oxford Sandy & Blacks.

This is a picture of me, Raisin with hodgepodge eating next to me ( she is quite greedy!) Hodgepodge talking)

Hello I am Hodgepodge, Oh Raisin apparently has already said that sorry about that. Anyway I am Not AT ALL GREEDY if that's what Raisin said! I am quite worried about Raisin she doesn't seem to be eating much... (Raisin)

I don't think I am very well I am never hungry.. ( Hodgepodge) Boo hoo hoo

I am really sad Raisin has just died, Well I suppose I will get to see another of my sisters soon, anyway I get all the food and get to do all the talking.

All of those pigs out there I just found out that it's really nice if you find a think branch and chew on it. Really got to go

Hodgepodge & Dead Raisin boo hoo hoo

Answers to your comments

2009-02-05T04:12:00.001-08:00

Thank you for commenting about the Bantams here are some answers:

Vienna

We decided what to call the rooster, we called him Kensuke because that is a Japanese name.

Patricia

Yes I have read and listened to some Michael morpurgo books to. We took your advice and have called him Kensuke, Thank you very much for suggesting Kensuke.

Lostcheerio

We were very tempted by Artichoke! But we then thought maybe a Japanese

name would be better.

Kym

Thanks! We think our bantams are beautiful to! I really liked the fun facts on Falabella's . Thank you for suggesting some names. We now have Kensuke,

Akane and Akemi Thanks!

Hightown

The Pigs

2009-02-05T03:48:00.000-08:00

We got some Pigs on Sunday; Hodgepodge and Raisin, Raisin was mine

and Hodgepodge was my sisters. Sadly on the second day Raisin died of

Meningitis. Meningitis is were they kick around madly trying to get up, it was really horrible to look at. So now we only have hodgepodge. But my mum said that we could get another one in 20 days ( it has to be 20 days if they died of a disease ) . Hodgepodge seems OK about Raisin disappearing though. Hodgepodge and Raisin are Oxford Sandy and Blacks, that are very good starters pigs.

Hightown

More Chickens

2009-01-09T03:48:00.000-08:00

We have some more Chickens, Japanese Bantams. Japanese Bantams are especially small. We got three, two hens and a rooster who is very happy and doesn't attack the Hens or cockadoodaloo early in the morning!(like they usually do). There names are Natchu,Tingtong are the Hens,but we don't know what to call the rooster. Please comment and say what you think the rooster should be called ( we would prefer a Japanese name if possible).

Charlie's friend

2008-12-18T03:06:00.000-08:00

Hello, yesterday we took Charlie to see his best friend Luigi.Luigi is Charlie's best friend its funny because Charlie is really big and Luigi is tiny! Here is a picture of Luigi and Charlie together, don't they look sweet! Luigi has had a haircut a bit ago and he looks completely different. Usually Charlie sees Luigi every week. Charlie has a few other friends such as his brother, Junior and Billy and some spaniels on his walk but his best friend is Luigi . When we go horse riding he sees Billy and Junior and his Dad. Charlie is really scared of his Dad and wont go anywhere near Freddie (his Dad) if he starts playing too roughly with Junior, Freddie will bite him and split them away from each other. Bye for now Hightown

Here is a link to Luigi's blog my-coton-de-tulear.blogspot.com

answering questions

2008-12-03T03:40:00.000-08:00

Hello i am here to answer your questions.

Ben

My girlfriend is a guinea pig and she is a rex called Foil

but she sadly doesn't live with me I am all by myself because bob ( my brother) died boo hoo hoo.

Henna & Lola

Thank you ever so much we would enjoy eating are worms but as soon as we catch a worm the next thing you know is that Snape and Hermione are running around with YOUR worm in there mouth! how disgraceful is that!

Charlie

Hello! thanks Egg I will next do some more ways to train your humans,they are VERY VERY tricky to train my humans are getting worse and worse they are even telling me THE BOSS what to do! they are very naughty!

Hightown

Hello, thank you I think Charlie is sweet to, if you were to tell Charlie that I bet he would boast to all his friends, knowing him! What type of dog is Yoohoo? We think charlie is mostly a border collie but probably has a bit of Labrador and spaniel. Is the other dog called charlie a Border Collie?

types of dogs

2008-11-20T04:04:00.000-08:00

There are a lot of types of dogs now since they have mixed types together

here are a lists of types of dogs some of them are really funny!

cockapoo= cocker spaniel and minicher poodle

this is a silkypoo

Bogle= Boxer and Beagle

Silky poo = silky terrier and poodle

puggle = pug and beagle

people mostly breed

poodles together because poodles are very popular.

this is a cockapoo

this is a puggle

what type of dog

2008-11-18T04:07:00.000-08:00

What type of dog??? Some people find that very tricky to decide, the thing you need to think about is if you want a big or a small dog. Small dogs can be more aggressive and big dogs can be very strong and difficult to walk on a lead. If you have a child who wants to walk the dog than I suggest you get a small one. The biggest type of dog is an Irish wolfhound are very tricky to look after but REALLY sweet!! I would love one; and the smallest is a chihuahua. you quite often see them in peoples handbags!! quite a lot of rich people have them

bye for now hightown.

Charlie's ways to train your humans

2008-11-12T03:42:00.000-08:00

ways to stop your humans making you do stuff you don't want to do

jump up at them
bite them on the arm
bark at them
look at them as sweetly as possible
whine
lick them all over the face

I thought the best way was to jump up at them and bite them,

but if your a very small dog look at them sweetly and whine.

Sometimes you humans will have a place where they store all the food and treats if they do then when your hungry you stand by the treats and whine as if your REALLY hungry it works unless you have bright humans. I have bright humans but there not as bright as me!!!. If you do have stupid humans then post a comment and i will wright how to cure them from there dumbness. And if your humans are getting tiresome just take them for a really long walk and run really fast on the lead so they get tired out.

Buff Orpingtons view of things

2008-11-06T03:46:00.000-08:00

Hi our names are Henna and Lola and we of course are Buffs

(Buff Orpingtons)and we are really skinny!!!. We have two other chickens who are in the same bit of the garden as us and are called Snape and Hermione (after Harry Potter) who are REALLY bossy and we always get second dips of corn and spaghetti. This is a picture of us and the other chickens that are called Lomans. Our best friend is Ben the guinea pig who has gone inside for the winter. Our mum is nice because she always comes to give us food and give us a cuddle. Charlie once came in and ate all of our food!!! We were REALLY cross!!. We have a really big bit of the garden to play in one part has a lot of grass in and the other bit has a lot of worms and mud for mud baths. The other chickens are no where near as grand as us!! But they are the boss and we do have to obey them,even though we are loads bigger than them!!!!!!!!! anyway the other chickens say we have got to get worms for them so they don't get muddy feet so Bye love Henna & Lola.

Ben's view of things

2008-11-05T03:17:00.000-08:00

Hi this is Ben here as you should know I am a guinea pig a VERY handsome guinea pig I am 4 years old and i used to have a brother,Bob but he died sadly of mites which I was VERY sad about. Anyway i am going to start talking about fabulous me!!.

I only have 1 girlfriend (I am hoping to have 2!!!) who is called Foil. Foil is a Rex a very beautiful Rex.I live in 2 different places, one of them is in my cage (that mum spent 20 pounds on)that's very cosy and I have a cage outside that's meant to be for rabbits but I go in it.Sometimes the big thing that's called a og or maybe its dog I am not sure but it makes a horrible noise at me it's really loud!!! I tell him off but he just looks at me strangely. Anyway I have got to go so

BYE from fabulous Ben

Charlie's view of things

2008-11-03T03:42:00.000-08:00

Hi, my name is Charlie and my alien parents are apparently

called Hightown because they said in their normal weird blabber to not write their real names. But anyway, there are loads of ways to train your parents, one of them is biting them when they do things that they're not allowed to do such as running around (you must not allow that in your house)and doing handstands. It's easy to train them not to run around because sometimes the oldest alien will help to train the young aliens, but trying to train them to not do handstands is sometimes really tricky.I take them out for walks,sometimes you have to give them a run by chasing after a rabbit or a deer, they start making a gargling noise when you do something like saying hello by jumping up at them, how weird is that!!!!!!!!! anyway hope the tips on training your aliens are going to help you. Bye from Charlie.

some pictures

2008-10-22T05:16:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of Charlie with his collar on he kept on bashing into

doorways because he didn't know how big his head was!!!!!! Underneath is a picture of charlie with a towel on his back I called him the dog with golden shining armour! and a very close up picture of charlie! And here is a picture of Ben saying: " don't you dare start peeking in my cage"!!

Our dog

2008-10-20T06:38:00.000-07:00

Our dog is called Charlie and he is 1 year old,his birthday was on the 9th of October. Here is a picture of him giving our local postman high five!!! I think

he looks like he is smiling!. Charlie has a best friend called Luigi who is really sweet, Luigi is a Coton De Tulear. Charlie sees his brother and dad every week at the riding stables. Charlie isn't a pure breed border collie we think he has a bit of Labrador.He has got one Rosette for agility, we were really proud of him!,he came 5th.

The good thing about Charlie is that he doesn't annoy the chickens or Ben.

Ben, my guinea pig

2008-10-20T03:41:00.000-07:00

My guinea pig is called Ben he is white with a Browny black bit over his eyes

and cheek. He used to be able to run around the whole garden but then mum had

to get rat poison because of the rats.We bring him in for the winter in his cage, but

he will need a bigger cage soon. This is a picture of Ben sitting on my lap.Ben used to have a brother Bob but sadly Bob died with mites, he got really skinny and got bumps all over his back that he kept on scratching.but

Ben likes talking to are chickens for company.

Ben was brought from Cockfield but i cant remember the name of the shop.

about my Buff Orpingtons

2008-10-19T08:30:00.000-07:00

My buff orpingtons are called Henna and Lola they were £15.00 each

I brought them from Great Whelnetham where there were loads of other chickens.

This is a picture of Henna & Lola.

We have two other chickens, Snape and Hermione from Harry Potter! They are Lomans and they are really bossy over the buffs even though the buffs are loads bigger!