chickens

A Return to Chickens

It’s been a while. Probably a year in fact since we last had chickens. We’ve had them off and on since we moved to the farm but, as I’ve told you before, Mr Fox paid us a few visits and then when I got pregnant with Baby G, Hubster sold them because, and I quote,…

#Mornings made easier with #BelVita
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#Mornings made easier with #BelVita

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring. Alarm goes off. Leap drag myself out of bed. I’ve been up 16 times in the night. Putting Boo’s dummy back in. It’s not fallen out of bed. It’s resting on her chin. Tick tock. Frolic drag my feet downstairs. Let dog out. Put kettle on. Make juice. Take juice and coffee upstairs. Put…

Egg-gate

So two weeks on from our delivery of ex-commercial hens, we’re suffering a bit of an egg-gate situation. I lovingly painted signs eggs for sale, created an egg-cellent display in which to sell my eggs and even made loyalty cards-but nine boxes of eggs and get your tenth “absolutely free.” I was really happy. Pancake…