Chickens

Since I blogged last we have been on a bit of a poultry fad, after returning from the warm conditions of "away" and returning to "home", going out on the water seemed less appealing and as the night were drawing in, I found the Battery Hen Walfare Trust, the are a charity that buys battery hens after they are removed from the cages and relocates them to new home.

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!