Keeping Chickens

Build A Chicken Run – we decided to build a chicken run so the chickens can have a bit of extra space when we go out. It’s ok having them wandering round the garden free range whilst we’re at home, but we’re a bit worried about leaving the chickens in the garden when we go [...]

Cleaning Out The Chicken House it’s a mucky job, but someone’s got to do it! Even though the chickens have had ‘free range’ round the garden, their chicken house is filthy. What’s more, the chickens are ’pooping’ in their nesting box, so the advice about, ‘don’t expect them to lay eggs where you want them to’ [...]

Axminster Chicken Keeping Saga – Hugh Responds! Over the last few days I’ve posted on the chicken keepers in Axminster, who seem to be hitting the headlines in both local and national newspapers. Check Cock-A-Doodle-Don’t and Keeping Cockerels for the stories. Anyway, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s company (River Cottage) have responded with the following comment; “River Cottage [...]

Eggloo, Egloo or Eglu…? Words such as Eggloo, Egloo and Eglu have been showing up in search results stats for Keeping Chickens, so I decided to see what they’re all about! First thing I’ve discovered is that Eggloo and Egloo are spelling mistakes for Eglu, or to give it it’s full title; Omlet Eglu. The Omlet Eglu is [...]

Chickens Home To Roost or ‘cock-a-doodle-don’t’… I posted the other day about a news article appearing in a Devon website, regarding keeping cockerels and the trouble it seemed to be causing between neighbours and the local council. This has now made national newspaper headlines in the Sunday Express and the blame has been ’laid’ firmly at the feet of the [...]

Chicken Garden or garden chickens… After yesterday’s ‘chicken run’ style escape attempt, we’ve decided to let the chickens have the run of the garden.  Our chickens are currently pecking and scratching away all round the garden. Hopefully they’re keeping away from the vegetables and sticking to dandelions, clover, grass and worms. There have been a [...]

Chicken run blooming fast as we discovered when we had our first escape attempt. Well, it wasn’t really a escape attempt, but Mrs Chicken can definitely run like the clappers when you try to catch her. It’s funny as the chicken didn’t try and run off or escape from the garden, she just stayed close [...]

Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg..? No, this isn’t some ‘heavy’ philosophical question you’ll be pleased to know! If you want a ‘brainiac’ type answer though, you can always check this reply out. We’ve been keeping chickens now for a little over a week and when we got our Isa Browns - or Isa [...]

Keeping Cockerels may not be that easy for those of us living in the suburbs, after reading a post recently published on a newspaper website that covers the area of Axminster. We are surrounded by chicken keeping neighbours, so perhaps for us the problem wouldn’t be so bad; but some people seem to object to the [...]

Chicken Keeping Pensioner Threatened With Eviction, is a surprising tale of heavy handed action by a Gateshead housing authority. The 85 year old pensioner is question is a gentleman named Ronald Lewis; Mr Lewis has been keeping chickens in the back garden of his house. He also has three beehives and grows his own vegetables – so [...]