2023

Our little oak is still only 14! And Harvey was still technically speaking a cockerel!

We’ve named the entire plot ‘Middle Earth’ after Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books.

How did we go from 4 to 23 chickens within a year’s time?!

This chicken addiction of mine is getting slightly out of hand and although one is broody again, she is most definitely not allowed to sit on any eggs as we really do not need any more!

Remember how we had 2 broody hens sitting on eggs and that another one had disappeared and how we couldn’t find her.

Right now our outdoor run looks like a maternity ward: we’ve got two broody hens sitting on separate nests in separate ‘broody coops’.

In previous blogs I’ve written about how I like to rescue little tree saplings with the aim to planting them out and creating a mini woodland next to our house.

A week before we were heading to the Netherlands, Harvey injured himself.

Did you know that cabbage plants release a chemical which is very unpleasant for slugs and therefore the slug will leave the cabbage alone.

After the chickens rampage through our garden this winter, it’s time to make up the balance of the damage they have done and I think I’ve got a name for them: “Hen and co. for all your demolition works”.

He is trying his best to wow the ladies, but they are not impressed by it all; they are either pecking him, throwing him off or just run away

The number 17 (or was it 42?)