Chickens prefer cages to snow? Tosh
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Lengthening days and changing ways…
Tonight the sun was still bright and high at 4 o’clock – a noticeable change from the darkest days of December. The chickens don’t want to be locked up until after 5pm, which takes the pressure off if we’re both out in the day. On the flip side, we are greeted with a scolding of […]
Eggs galore, but no kitchen.
Our eight hens are laying beautiful brown eggs at last, though some seem to prefer to make their own nests on the compost heaps or under the conifer hedge rather than use their neat wooden nest boxes. I suspect the main reason is the onging henhouse power struggle in which the large, dominant hens evict […]
