Keeping Chickens

Keeping Chickens In The Back Garden We’ve been keeping chickens in the back garden for just over three years now. So we thought we’d stop and reflect on what we’ve learnt along the way. Our ‘keeping chickens’ experiment started as just a thought, a dream, a figment of our imagination of how much grander life would [...]

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 [...]

Keeping Chickens In Winter As we’re now well into our first winter as chicken keepers, I thought I’d write about any difference between keeping chickens in winter to other seasons. Well the first big difference is the mud / wet due to the rain or snow in the chicken run. Obvious I suppose, but the chicken run [...]

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 [...]

Pullet Egg We started last Saturday getting two eggs per day but after the fox attack on Sunday, this has gone back down to one per day. One can only presume that ‘Dandelion’ had started laying before her ‘untimely end’ - hence we’re back to one pullet egg per day for the time being, whilst ‘Softie’ and [...]

Chicken Manure Compost Bin I posted the other day on Chicken Manure, and again with photos of our plastic compost bins full to the brim with chicken poo, bedding and straw waste material from our chickens on the Chicken Run post. We have a ‘three’ compost bin system, we have two plastic compost bins that [...]

Fox Kills Chicken… The Morning After sees Toby say to Julia, ‘oh well never mind Mum, we can get another chicken’! There’s feathers still blowing round the garden, but the survivors don’t seem any worse for wear. They’re a little ‘miffed’ that they’re being kept in their run and keep pecking at the door to [...]

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 [...]

1000 Chicken Coops Sold Every Week In The UK was printed in the Mail on Sunday on 31/08/08. Did anyone else read this chicken keeping article? The article is here if you missed it. The chicken keeping article spreads over two pages in the Mail on Sunday and states that thousands of city dwellers are [...]

Chicken Lays An Egg! Whoopee our chickens have laid a egg! Wait, no scrub that, our chickens have laid two eggs… Toby our four year old discovered the first egg on Saturday morning. He’d been staying at Grandma’s house for a couple of days and came back at around 10:00 am in the morning. I’d [...]