Keeping Chickens

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 [...]

Build A Chicken Run – we decided to build a chicken run so the chickens can have a bit of extra space when we go out. It’s ok having them wandering round the garden free range whilst we’re at home, but we’re a bit worried about leaving the chickens in the garden when we go [...]

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 Garden or garden chickens… After yesterday’s ‘chicken run’ style escape attempt, we’ve decided to let the chickens have the run of the garden.  Our chickens are currently pecking and scratching away all round the garden. Hopefully they’re keeping away from the vegetables and sticking to dandelions, clover, grass and worms. There have been a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]