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 [...]

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 [...]

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’ [...]

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 [...]