New chickens

Two new chickens added to our herd. We have found that 3 chickens provide the right amount of eggs for three people (with a couple to spare every now and again) - so to keep up with our hungry relatives and friends we decided to get a couple more birds.

I can’t remember what their breed is - begins with a ‘b’ - answers on a postcard. They’re quite stroppy though, compared to the brown originals.

Written by exmonkey on August 28th, 2007 with 14 comments.
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sib3
#1. August 30th, 2007, at 2:48 PM.

A Herd of chickens?
Its a flock of birds,
a bevy of quails,
or a brood of hens,
or a clutch of chicks or eggs,
a covey of wildfoul

but the proper collective noun for chickens eludes me, wikipedia suggests a “peep”
what do you reckon?

exmonkey
#2. August 30th, 2007, at 2:59 PM.

you forgot a gaggle of geese.

My suggestion would be a ‘mob of chickens’

CDP
#3. September 2nd, 2007, at 7:55 PM.

Sib 3/Neph 4 - there’s also (my favourite) an unkindness of ravens. And it’s wildfowl.

exmonkey
#4. September 2nd, 2007, at 8:19 PM.

a parliament of rooks
a murder of crows

sib3
#5. September 4th, 2007, at 4:08 PM.

So whats the collective noun for pedants?
I suggest “an irritation of pedants”

exmonkey
#6. September 4th, 2007, at 4:11 PM.

how about a pootere of pedants?

CDP
#7. September 4th, 2007, at 9:14 PM.

Hang on a sec - who started all this, mmmh? Pots and kettles come to mind…

exmonkey
#8. September 4th, 2007, at 9:49 PM.

that, if I may say so, is a very pedantic comment.

sib3
#9. September 7th, 2007, at 12:56 PM.

So thats offical then, a poorterre of pedants

(Lets see if someone takes the bait)

Kitchen Witch
#10. September 7th, 2007, at 4:58 PM.

Hello! Here via Ally, and having just acquired two very similar chooks, thought I’d chip in and say that I think the dark lovelies are Barnevelders.

Oh, and ‘a counfounding’ of chickens seems like a good collective noun to me, although I really love the ‘peep’ idea.

CDP
#11. September 7th, 2007, at 6:57 PM.

I don’t mind, but you (both of you) could at least try & spell it correctly. Tsk.

exmonkey
#12. September 7th, 2007, at 8:01 PM.

Hi K Witch - I thought they might have been Barnevelders too, but then I saw that they are meant to be rare, so assumed they weren’t. So now I will just tell people that that is what they are.

@CDP - I think you took Sib#3’s bait.

sib3
#13. September 25th, 2007, at 4:03 PM.

hook, line and sinker

cat
#14. March 26th, 2008, at 1:28 PM.

Where did you get your hens from, r they still doing well an how much does it cost you roughly to keep them each week