Our favourite chicken was puffed up and sleepy, so we were pretty sure she didn’t have much longer to live, but her death was still cause for sadness in the coop.
Our home-made cheese is maturing. Read more...
We added three new hens to our flock. Read more...
We're baking sourdough bread. Read more...
We're knitting a woolly blanket.
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Fortunately the breeder from whom we bought our hens also kitted us out with everything they needed to eat and thrive, saving us a lot of head-scratching. So, in the absence of any no-nonsense guides to starting with chickens, here’s a shopping list for wannabe home-flock keepers, based on that pack.
After a week in residence, the chickens have become a part of the family. With a little careful management, they could also turn out to be hard workers in the garden.
On Saturday morning, we drove up to Stebbing for our lesson on chicken keeping, and to pick up the first three members of our little home flock: Margot, Gerry and Barbara.