Ever since I got our very first two hens (Daphne and Pearl), way back in 2012, I have loved everything chicken. Over the last five years, I have accumulated a lot of chicken things. Plates, cups, cushions, doorstops. If there is a choice of anything with chickens on it, I choose it. I even get … [Read more…]
Just before Christmas, there was a tiny news report on the television reporting an outbreak of avian flu. If you blinked, you missed it. Unfortunately for poultry across the UK, the result was very misleading advice from Defra about what poetry keepers should do. Their chief vet imposed a restriction on birds and suggested keepers … [Read more…]
Last year I wrote an animal inventory and I thought it would be fun to carry on the tradition. I had thought not much had changed until I read last year’s post and it seems we have been very busy on the animal front while there has also been some deaths. The three farm … [Read more…]
Another season and another change on the farm. The rams have gone off romancing the ladies. We sent the new Suffolk rams off earlier which I said would be a good idea. Until they had already gone and started and I remembered about a certain #farmbaby2017 being due three weeks before. Oops. They had a … [Read more…]
Autumn is in full swing. The leaves are falling and the weather has turned crisp. It is one of my favourite times of the year-especially on the farm. Here are my top five reasons I love Autumn on the farm. 1.It is our quietest time of the year. Not cold enough to worry about animals … [Read more…]
I haven’t written about my chickens for a while so I thought I’d update you. I had the five from Boo’s school-one cockerel (Adam) and the four hens; a pekin and two silkies. Then the trio of white Pekins I got from the livestock auction and the five ex-battery hens. I hatched seven of my … [Read more…]
After our failed trip to our local animal auction a month or so ago, I was reluctant to return. Not least for the fact that I realised how difficult it would be to go on my own, buy animals, push the pram and hang on to an excited five-year-old. Last week however, I was feeling … [Read more…]
If you have been within a 20 metre radius of me over the last month, you will no doubt have been bored to tears about my hatching eggs. I have had 30 eggs in two incubators and I have waited. Hen eggs take 21 days to hatch but day 21 came and went with no … [Read more…]
I am sure you have heard of the expression, watching paint dry. It is a boring, thankless activity which demonstrates when something else is mind-numbingly boring. I have a new idea for a phrase which means a similar thing. That’s right folks. When most normal people are sat watching Saturday night television with a packet … [Read more…]
If you follow me on social media, you can’t have missed what can only be described as chicken-spam, flooding your feeds. I have kept chickens before but, when I was just about to have Baby G, Hubster sold my last lot of chucks to a workman as he said he was not prepared to look … [Read more…]
