The Chicken Blog!

The combined flock appears to be enjoying the finer weather that has recently arrived. The garden recently experienced a rather startling freak flood due to a broken surface water drain outside our house. I’m pleased to say the house avoided flooding thanks to the help of a friend and a rapidly hired pump. Thankfully the garden quickly drained and we are now returned to normal.

The ballerina bantams having undergone a moult are now producing gorgeously perfect eggs. Grazing on the newly growing grass seems to make a difference somehow. The hens all seem to enjoy wondering around the garden, which perhaps fulfils a natural instinct in the hens for continual foraging. They appear to be happy to have something to do; a sort of purpose seems to exude from their foraging – to find the biggest juiciest worm!