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 [...]

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 quickly can [...]

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 hold 330L [...]

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 to [...]

Chicken Manure.
Chickens we’ve just discovered, are messy little critters. There’s chicken s##t everywhere!
Our chicken house was sold as being able to house 4 - 5 chickens, it has a ‘run’ attached so they can get some fresh air and stretch their wings.
We planned on moving the house round the garden every few days, so they’re [...]