A week after getting them, all four chickens are alive and as well as can be expected, and I've had loads of eggs.
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I HAS THEM ( Read more... )

I did DIY in the dark. With hammering. I am legendarily clumsy and failed woodwork at school. I still have all my fingers, which is astonishing ( Read more... )

Dear weather,

If you could manage a slow and lengthy transition from the unseasonal warmth to the forecast snow, me and my soon-to-arrive fragile chickens would appreciate it.

Love and kisses,

Me.

PS Have knitted 0.5 of 4 chicken jumpers, as modelled by some poor baldy hens here.

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I'm getting 4 rescued ex-batt chickens on October 15th. Putting them on my allotment. Tasks yet to do ( Read more... )

So I bought one of these, with an extra run because I thought it looked a bit small. I'm transferring it over to the allotment and putting it up, box by box. So far I've got one of the runs constructed, though not reinforced to my satisfaction ( Read more... )

Damn it, Dick King-Smith's dead.

When I was a kid, I liked books and I liked animals. I was painfully shy, so I didn't like people. Dick King-Smith wrote a huge number of kids' books about animals. You see how he might've been a massive part of my childhood.

I read The Sheep-Pig and Saddlebottom and The Hodgeheg and King Max the Last and Pets ( Read more... )

I really don't want to leave the house. I have to, though. I have to go to my outdoor job and feed the animals. But it's soooooooo cold, and the roads are so screwed-up...

Come on, girl. Up. Dressed. Go.

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Exhaustive research (I rode my bike) under strictest experimental conditions (a canal bridge) finds that a duck's quack DEFINITELY echoes.

It's gosling season along the canal towpath, and the adult geese are even more aggressive than usual ( Read more... )