Chickens

I have always wanted to keep chickens, since discovering a coop at the bottom of my Gran's garden! Imagine my delight when I discovered you did not need a farmyard to keep these amusing creatures!

I realise the value of my wonderful man in my life, when he saw how I loved the chickens he was soon bidding for a lovely coop on the Internet! Only after we had a trip to the farm for me to handle the chickens to see if I can do it! Isn't it a lovely home? We are going to build a bigger run, so they have more room to run about when we are at work! So after only a week we have chickens! They are only 16 weeks old, and will be coming into lay hopefully the middle of this week!

If you ever feel stressed or depressed, then get yourself some chickens, they are such intelligent animals! It did not take them long to realise that I often came bearing a handful of corn, (chicken sweeties) and the disappointed looks I get when I don't give them any! However their favourite by far (and it did send them into a bit of a frenzy!) was the left over spaghetti! They really went mad on that! (in tomato sauce as you can't give them meat under any circumstances!)

They take themselves to bed very nicely as soon as the light fades, but a little run down to the coop at six is challenging at weekends. No eggs yet, but hey any day now!