Keeping Chickens

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 the [...]

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 [...]

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 steps of [...]