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New Year Update

Ok, I know we’re well into January now but I haven’t posted a blog for quite a while so thought I’d dip my feet back in with just a quick update.

Not surprisingly it involves the chickens again as they as so easy to write about and can hopefully get things ticking along.

I took the video using my new action camera I got for Christmas and had it mounted on a pole to get a more unique angle. I didn’t intend to add the Jaws soundtrack but it works out quite well!

I hope any readers had a good festive period and I’m so happy that the days are now getting longer. Lots of planning to do!

In the summer I wrote a post about wanting to build a shed out of wooden pallets but when the opportunity to buy a new shed came around I had to go with it and so there won’t be any pallet sheds being built here any time soon. In that post I did write that …

Meet Little Miss Sunshine, an ex battery hen, who shows how intelligent chickens are.

A triple of triple of yolked eggs

The other week I blogged about how I had a triple yolked egg and how the odds were a long 25 million to 1. In fact when I told people about this, okay when I told everyone about it, most of them had only heard of double yolkers so I was feeling pretty good about …

You know how exciting it can be to get a double yolk egg? That’s assuming you’ve had one before. I hadn’t until last week and have had a couple more since so that’s pretty cool. The British Egg Information Service (yes there is one!) said the instance of eggs being double yolkers was thought to …

Ever since we got the chickens four and a bit weeks ago people have been asking if we’ve had any eggs and I’ve had to say no but yesterday we got our first egg from our Chickens! The chickens are around 18 weeks old now and forums said that it could be up to 25 …

The weather this weekend was marvellous and no doubt everyone enjoyed getting out in the garden and enjoying the sunshine, and this wasn’t just the humans! Mabel (Red), Mavis (White), and Maude (Grey) loved getting out! The chickens have a coop and a run and whilst I want them to have more space and be …

Once I decided I wanted to get chickens it wasn’t just a case of buying the chickens but also working out what else I needed to buy, so I did my research and here’s a helpful list of all the things I’ve bought to make my chooks feel at home. This will obviously vary depending …

So two weeks ago something exciting happened. I finally got my chickens! I’ve been talking about getting chickens for probably the last two years, ever since I moved to Chartham, but finally it was the right time to get them. I decided to make the leap into chicken ownership once I’d returned from my Easter …

I hope you all had a good Christmas. I know I did and can’t wait to get back outside, getting more active, and shedding the festive pounds and I thought I would share what I got as my main present from my lovely wife…. a chicken coop! We’ve now we’ve been in our new house …

New Year Update

New shed and chicken run

Can a battery hen outsmart a child?

A triple of triple of yolked eggs

Triple Yolked Eggs!

The first egg!

Letting the chickens roam

How much do chickens cost? – A start-up guide for novices

I’ve got chickens!

A great gift from Santa