Tag: chicken
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Chicken-napping!
You never know how the day is going to turn out. In between showers, Miss and I take the opportunity to go for a walk around the village, as you do. Less than quarter of a mile into the walk we smile a “good afternoon” at a lady coming towards us (we still smile and…
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Chicken (on the) Run
Ok, so at this time of year there’s not a lot to harvest from the fruit bed, a few mostly green strawberries and the odd raspberry hanging on into autumn… but somehow the girls found opportunity to have a go. Must keep that gate closed, eh.
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Bees like Kale!
When your veg plot goodies begin to bolt… lettuce, spinach… kale… it’s usually due to wobbly weather. We’ve had some wobbly weather this year alright! And so it was no surprise when the green and purple curly Kale both went nuts and began to flower. The torrential, constany, unending, drought-busting rain – sent in response to several…
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Farewell Esme
And after the good news the sad. Coming home after a thirty six hour solid stint at work, I found gallant, aged and half blind Esme – our oldest chicken and last one of the first four back in 2005 – dead in the chicken run. She’d simply stopped, apparently after having a drink of…
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Three new chooks
By chance, Miss found out that the local farm shop had some ‘Point of Lay’ chickens for sale and we picked up three new girls on Saturday. We now have two Marans – our original Speckledy from 2005 and a new Basic Marans, the two Welsummers from 2007 and two new White Sussex. The picture…
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So, chicken feed… pretty tasty stuff eh?
It’s becoming a problem… not a big problem, but a problem. The local wild birds are eating the chicken feed faster than the chickens. I don’t honestly mind; after all we have seed feeders all over the back garden and it would seem daft to worry about a handful of layers pellets getting devoured in…
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Snow Chooks and Batteries
Back in February 2006 I fitted a Chicken House automatic door opener. Three years on the four AA cells have depleted and needed replacing. Three years service isn’t bad, out in all weathers including days like these… even if the supplier said four. The girls are having a great time in the snow, building snowmen…
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Hugh’s Chicken Run
DOCUMENTARY: Hugh’s Chicken Run On: Channel 4 (4) Date: Monday 7th January 2008 Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long) An anytime alert is set for 15 minutes before the programme starts Hugh’s Chicken Run launches the The Big Food Fight, a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food…
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one of them late night question things…
Just brought half a dozen eggs in amongst the weekly shop, since our five girls have stopped laying for the winter. The thought occurs to me, how come there are so many boxes of local ‘free range’ eggs available? Since my ladies are not laying, due to the season, the lack of sunlight and the cold,…
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