Has Nancy Gone Broody?

Hi there reader, low and behold as I looked out of the window down into the garden this morning, there she was, I called to her with the same sort of tone you would use after loosing a friend at a festival , ‘ Nancy!!! , there you are ‘. It was great to her [...]

A Flaw in my Floor

Hi there reader, well I was thinking that all of the work being carried out in the back yard was upsetting the hens, as we have been down an egg or two each day, not so. As it happens the floor I made, from a single pallet, and hinged the bottom front of the coop to enable [...]

Chicken Colditz

I’ve had it with retrieving the hens from next door’s gardens, and I’m sure, although they haven’t said anything, the neighbours are fed up of chickens’ droppings on their driveway. So today I started to build a big run, using bamboo, I suppose it’s more chicken Tenko, for those of you familiar with the BBC.
Sooner [...]

Absent without Leave

Hi all, I’ve reached that stage, I am finding it hard to keep this going, I have lots to say about all sorts of other topics, but I’m trying to stick to the topic, chickens and related stuff. Someone asks me yesterday if were any famous chickens, I could only think of Fog horn Leghorn [...]