They are beautiful.

Got the run sorted by 8am, after an early start. The ground was drying up, and half the run is now roofed over with corrugated plastic sheeting. We have put more paving slabs down at the other end, and put a thick layer of wood chippings on the rest of the area. The girls are having a ball, flinging...

My girls roost on a shelf, which I cover with about four thicknesses of newspaper, supplied by my neighbour.

This morning we let the girls out for ten minutes, after making a safe area (we hoped), with three tall windbreaks. I stayed inside with a tin of mealworms, and OH took photos of them. They were quite cautious at first, but loved the grass. One thing concerns me, we have a lot of clover in our lawn,...

We should have got the run wood chipped yesterday, when it had dried up, but couldn't get the goods until this morning, when after torrential rain (again), it is a mud bath, and puddled everywhere. Got the corrugated sheets today - over eighty pounds, gulp, and OH is building a stout frame to fix th...

Until today, we have spent little on our hens. The hut was from freecycle, and we already had wire netting, though we bought some small gauge costing around ten pounds. Today we have paid twelve pounds for wood chippings, extortionate I thought, until we coughed up eighty four pounds for corrugated ...

Thank you all for your advice. Our local log place wants two pounds a bag for wood chip!

My great aunt who kept a flock of geese used their wings for sweeping the great and hearth. In her scullery she had several of them lying around!

We knew that we were going to get heavy rain, but last night's was torrential, and this morning the run is like a fold yard. We had talked about covering it over during the winter, and decided to make enquiries today about plastic corrugated sheeting. We got the shock of our lives £30 including VAT,...

I have done the DIY moving, and also had the experts to do the job. But we always get landed to move our offspring, who never seem organised, and packed and cleaned, in readiness for the big load to go to the new house. When we ourselves moved to our retirement home, our moving day coincided with my...

I shall have to brace myself to catch them more often then. My OH has to do this for me, as I have not yet got that part of hen keeping sorted! They will let me stroke them for a second or so, and observe at close quarters everything I do. I poo pick three times a day in the run, and clean their roo...

Thank you Helen. We have just powdered the girls, and the coop. Once caught they are very docile.

We have had our girls just over a week. I was talking to another hen keeper yesterday, who told me that she checks over her girls every day. I wonder how often is recommended? I have tried contacting the supplier, but no answer.

We asked around before getting our girls. One place asked ten pounds for each hen - ex batts who had been free ranging and were well feathered. Another nearby place was asking five pounds for a hen in the same condition. I got ours from a family friend, who chicken farms with free range, and we were...

Two eggs this morning, very pleased with them. We are unsure which of the three is not laying, will have to monitor them tomorrow.
We each had a boiled egg for lunch, from Tuesdays eggs.