This was all the encouragement I needed to go about trying to get some, after asking my house mates and our landlord, who surprisingly was for the Idea 100%, his only criticism was that the house and run was too big for just 3 "I should have got more".
It was very appealing Idea, as chickens are cool!, they can pretty much look after themselfs for a week at a time (with enough food and water, and you get eggs! (not that I really like eggs). Also if we are going away for a longer stint, getting someone to chicken sit is easy as they get a supply of free fresh eggs in payment.
Also at 50p each and food at £6.80 for a 25kg sack, you cant go wrong! (plus about £100 or so for wood and stuff)
So I set out building a chicken coop, a Triangular natured contraption, with a run connected to the end.

This is my house on the inside, one white thing is food the other water. Chickens supposedly like to sleep on a perch.

This is there whole run and the house.

This is Margo, our prize hen as she has moulted and looks "normal again", Babs and Dandelion both are missing a few feathers still.

these are are first 2 eggs, over the winter we have been logging egg collection, and the 3 Girls are averaging about 1.5 eggs a day, however, we have lost this data dure to a hard drive failure, and since now it is spring we have had a couple of 3 a day!!!! so the new average is probably closer to 2!
2 comments:
Great to see you blogging again, looking forward to seeing those quails!
Brilliant - you have made a fantastic job of the chicken house and run - they look so happy.
You might think about selling the eggs so that it pays for their food - especially as you say you don't much like eggs.
Can you cook? You can make more money from making cakes etc to other students.
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