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For anyone who remembers I had a goat shed which I needed to convert, and a terribly overgrown pen........ but now we've ondulined the roof, restrung the fencing, strimmed and weedkilled and dug....... and got chickens!
I have six - I may have this wrong (I'm new) but I have two bluebells, two speckledys and two roadreds (or something).
Anyway, Dave, Barry, Fifi, Lenny, Roxy and Blue have joined the family.
Barry so far is a trial - the first night we went to shut the gate and Barry was missing - she'd flown up onto the top of the fence and was perched most precariously.......... day two and we couldn't even FIND her - she wasn't in the pen at all - but she was back, outside the door waiting for her mates the next morning.
Wing clipping took place
The last two nights they have all gone to perch in the shed together so I think she's finally cottoned on. But even so we tend to find five, then find Barry somewhere altogether different - talk about walk your own path.
Anyway, they are here - 19 weeks or so old, and not yet laying - but settling in.
We got them from somewhere with no green in the pen, they were grubby, and very crowded - so they are already looking much much nicer, fluffier, cleaner, and sort of 'fuller'.
Now all we need are eggs!
I have six - I may have this wrong (I'm new) but I have two bluebells, two speckledys and two roadreds (or something).
Anyway, Dave, Barry, Fifi, Lenny, Roxy and Blue have joined the family.
Barry so far is a trial - the first night we went to shut the gate and Barry was missing - she'd flown up onto the top of the fence and was perched most precariously.......... day two and we couldn't even FIND her - she wasn't in the pen at all - but she was back, outside the door waiting for her mates the next morning.
Wing clipping took place
The last two nights they have all gone to perch in the shed together so I think she's finally cottoned on. But even so we tend to find five, then find Barry somewhere altogether different - talk about walk your own path.
Anyway, they are here - 19 weeks or so old, and not yet laying - but settling in.
We got them from somewhere with no green in the pen, they were grubby, and very crowded - so they are already looking much much nicer, fluffier, cleaner, and sort of 'fuller'.
Now all we need are eggs!
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