Keeping Chickens

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 [...]

Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg..? No, this isn’t some ‘heavy’ philosophical question you’ll be pleased to know! If you want a ‘brainiac’ type answer though, you can always check this reply out. We’ve been keeping chickens now for a little over a week and when we got our Isa Browns - or Isa [...]

Chicken Keeping Pensioner Threatened With Eviction, is a surprising tale of heavy handed action by a Gateshead housing authority. The 85 year old pensioner is question is a gentleman named Ronald Lewis; Mr Lewis has been keeping chickens in the back garden of his house. He also has three beehives and grows his own vegetables – so [...]

Build Chicken House At first you may have previously read, we planned to build our chicken house from scraps of wood and marine ply we’ve had kicking round the garden. We ended up with a pretty simple looking ‘box’, that I’m sure with a bit more ‘manipulating’ would do the trick. There’s loads of plans [...]

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 [...]

Well the ‘girls’ have arrived and in anticipation of this ‘keeping chickens‘ site, we’ve already compiled a few chicken related posts and photos, in an attempt to answer the question of; why did we decide to keep chickens in our back garden? We haven’t entered into this chicken keeping relationship half heartedly, no indeed! My [...]