Keeping Chickens

Chickens In The Snow
It snowed just enough to cover the floor a little and leave footprints, so I just couldn’t resist taking a photograph of our chicken’s foot prints in the snow.
I imagine this is the first snow that the chickens have seen, and they seemed happy enough scratching around in the snow - although [...]

Looking After Chickens Whilst On Holiday
We faced and passed our first, ‘who’s going to look after the chickens whilst we’re away?’ dilemma…
We wanted to go away for a few days to Worth Matravers (see below) before our eldest started school on the 9th September; our veggie keeping neigbours stepped up to the scratch perfectly!
We gave them a [...]

Fox Kills One Of Our Chickens… This post contains a graphic description and image of one of our chickens that got ‘taken’ by a fox on Sunday night.
What a roller coaster ride we’ve had keeping chickens this last 24 hours… Our first eggs have been laid, now we’re faced with breaking the news to Toby in 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 few considerations before [...]