Keeping Chickens

Three eggs per day, hip-hip horray! Our veggie growing neighbours told us that our chickens had laid three eggs on some of the days that they looked after our chickens for us whilst we went away. Well it looks like they’re right. We seem to be getting two eggs laid in the morning and one egg laid in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]