The Chicken Diaries

Fairy eggs and funny eggs

Our chickens have been laying some pretty odd eggs of late. We have had beautiful.large spotty eggs, small ones from our new pullet (a...

Bumblefoot

The name was new to me and I have kept hens for most of my life, but another family member identified it immediately. One of our little...

You should never count your chickens.

It is a very sad morning here in the garden - Mrs Pookie, our bantam hen who has been sitting on10 eggs has disappeared and so have all...

Easter Eggs

One of our bantam hens has gone broody - she went missing on Easter Saturday and, after a considerable time hunting for her, Richard...

The arrival of three tea cosies with little fluffy feet…..

May 11, 2021 An introduction to the egg laying team We already had four hens – enough to give us plenty of eggs for our own use with some...