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They’re here!
…and here’s a truly terrible iPhone photo to mark the occasion: Clockwise from top left they’re Vi, Ida, Pearl and Queenie, transported in two cardboard boxes by car from a farm somewhere between...
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Wakey wakey
For the fourth successive day (possibly the fifth, but we didn’t think to look on their first morning here), all four chickens emerged first thing in strict pecking order – first Pearl and Vi, then a...
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The Great Escape #1
The chickens are pretty blasé about adults approaching them, but they queue up expectantly whenever they spot what they probably refer to as “red-haired food girl”, because her arrival usually...
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“Oh my God, what’s that?” I quickly scanned the garden, alighting on the swing, on which my son was doing his level best to strangle himself but still seemed hale and hearty. “No, not him – on top of...
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…throw a single slice of melon into a pen containing four chickens? We saw them giving us the answer yesterday evening, laughed a lot, and asked them to put on a repeat performance in better light...
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The Great Escape #3
It’s been bucketing down with rain all morning, yet all four chickens have been blithely pottering around the pen for most of it. Truly, their ways are not our ways. And then Vi seized the opportunity...
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Next, the electrified razor wire
Well, this should put a lid on any further escape attempts. Quite literally. Actually, the main function of this blue tarpaulin serving as a makeshift roof is to keep the pen dry(ish) and stop the...
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Colour coding
After Monday’s blatant guesswork, the chickens’ egg production over Tuesday and Wednesday has enabled us to draw some hopefully firmer conclusions about who’s laying what. [UPDATE: Much of this turned...
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Colour coding (corrected)
OK, so yesterday’s supposedly educated guesswork actually turned out to be far less accurate than our rather more blatant guesswork from before. And I hold my own hands up to this, since my wife Jane...
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