NEW ARRIVALS

We have increased our breeds kept by 300%, sounds like alot when you put it that way, but infact all we did was get 3 new chicks all of different breeds, than the one, Brown Shavers we already had.

We now have a Black Minorca ( Maria) spanish origins, also lays in the winter which will be great when the others have stopped laying, also we got a Light Sussex ( Dorothy), english breed, and then the last is Betty the Wyandotte Gold Lace origins in America.

I now need to re-erect the run i had just pulled down, as the other birds are free ranging through the whole garden, and a bit through next doors garden too. It is lovely to have a variety of hens, I can see how people start like this and end up with far too many, it must become a bit of a collection obsession,' oh, I must get one of those Silkies they look so fluffy' and so on.

The neighbours kids came over after school with my son, and swapped chicken stories, as they keep White Shavers themselves, which started me thinking, do you start to meet loads of people who keep chickens, when you yourself do, a bit like, when you get a new car, you start to notice others on the road, of the same model.

So on we go, 8 birds now, 5 hens and 3 chicks, I ahven't mentioned that the breeder where we bought the chicks, also breeds pigs, hmmmmmmm?

Some of you may have noticed

Hi there, i just started this blog here, and i'm in the process of transferring everything from my other wordpress blog, so they are my blogs, i'm not just copying them from elsewhere.
I found that, although i enjoyed the other blog, it is a bit limiting, in so far as pics and video are concerned, or maybe it was just that i'm a bit technically challenged. Infaact i've beeen trying to download a hits counter for this site, with not much success, so if any tech heads out there that want to leave me some advice or even instructions, that would be superb.

I seem to be reaching that point when it si becoming harder to come up with new posts, writers block they call it i think, the girls are still up to their tricks, but they don't seem to ahve any new ones at the moment, so writing abouit the same things, will leave both me and the reader a bit disinterested.

I don't even know if this site is visible to anyone as I seem to have no visitors, where as when I opened the wordpress one, i got 306 views, where is everyone here, is it so big that it takes weeks for anyone to find you?

the chicken keeper.

Secret Layers Nest Discovered

Well, hello to you all, she has evaded me now for 8 days, Saturday, no where to go, but sit and watch her til she goes to lay, but i didn’t do that, i was busy catching 3 other birds in the neighbours garden, chasing them back over the fence, during the comotion, Daisy seized her opportunity to slip off to her secret nest, sure enough by the time i had sorted the other 3 out, she had disappeared.
I walked down to where i last saw her, nothing, but then i stumbled on some branches and nearly fell into a nearby large bizzy lizzy plant, apon doing this a few clucks came from the aforementioned bush, which only 2 days ago i had taken some cuttings from, and there she was sitting in the now not so secret nest, i did my best to pretend i hadn’t seen her, and went about adding to the new coop.
Finally she emerged from the bizzy lizzy to see what i was up to, I gave them a handful of feed, to keep them occupied, and went to investigate, low and behold, 9 eggs, it felt like christmas had come early. I let out a loud wooping sound, neighbours probably think i’m a bit cookoo. Well excited doesn’t describe it, i rushed 8 of the eggs upstairs, straight into a pan of water, all good. If your wondering why only took 8, I figure if i leave one there, she keep going back to it, and not go off to a new hiding spot, a have made clay eggs for the others nesting spots.
The street did well today for fresh eggs, i give the excess away to the neighbours.
‘Alls well that ends well’ said Shakespeare, i wonder if he kept chickens?
thechickenkeeper