Keeping Chickens

New Chicken Coop
It definitely feels like ’spring’!
Julia and the boys want more chickens to add to the flock, so in preparation, we’ve bought a new chicken coop.
We went for another self assembly chicken coop from this ebay seller - Garden & Pets. The name of the coop we bought was Large Chicken Poultry Hen Coop House [...]

Keeping Poultry And Rabbits On Scraps
Keeping Poultry And Rabbits On Scraps according to the paper today was a ‘war time’ best selling handbook, that’s making a come back due to the ‘credit - crunch’.
The book was first published in 1941 as Nazi Germany was attempting to starve Britain into submission.
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps [...]

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 [...]

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’ is probably [...]

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 a funky looking [...]

Fox Sniffing Around The Chicken House.
I’m a pretty easy going ‘live and let live’ kind of a chap, but I can see I’m going to have my work cut out with staying this way with Mr Fox!
On Sunday night, I was sitting up the end of the garden having a smoke on the steps of [...]