January 2008: Chicken Out! 

The chooks continue to lay and are contented with their free-range lifestyle - ours were the lucky ones... Support Hugh-Fearnley-Flip-Flop's campaign for a better deal for chooks: www.chickenout.tv

June 2007: One down, but they're laying!

 Unfortunately, one of the chickens didn't make it and ended up in the wheelie bin. However the remaining five are a lot healthier, their feathers are coming back and they've even worked out how to use the automated feeder so they're not as hungry as they were... We've also had the first attempts at egg-laying, althought the school report should read 'could try harder'

May 2007: End of the chooks - the chooks return...

Another vent-pecking incident left Jo's fab chicken Amber a bit dead. An ultimatum followed, the murdering bitch chicken would have to go before we got any more. Job done - first despatching complete ready for new flock of rescue chickens. Thanks to farmer Richard for advice on undertaking (!) the necessary 'yank'. 

OK - so they look a bot rough, but they've been saved from the chop of the evil battery farms and will live their lives out in quiet luxury providing a good source of eggs and amusement. They are very friendly, have almost no fear of humans and evidently no brains. 2 hours training and they've yet to master the automatic grain feeder... they might find themselves hungry if they don't buck their ideas up...

"What you looking at?"

If you've ever tried to photograph a chicken - it's very difficult, especially these two; either they peck your feet, or think there's corn in the camera and peck that too... As with most girls, bribery is the most effective solution and food is a best bribe currency for chooks. Problem is, you then get to photograph bobbing chicken bottoms as they peck at corn...

OK so there's meant to be an interactive chook-web-cam too, but we have not yet worked out how to wire up a wireless web-what-not and need to ask someone much more brainy (we are mere farmers after all...)

STOP PRESS! We now have the interactive web-thing, just have to work out how to plumb it in?!

On the plus side, they are still producing on full-chat - each popping out an egg a day even during the winter. However, they sometimes ignore the lovingly crafted nesting boxes and opt to horad eggs in the corner of their run...