I’m afraid we’re not those people who buy their pets Christmas gifts. Just… no. Well, to be fair, we have done a few times. but Blue’s rubbish at presents. if you give her a special biscuit or chew or bone she simply carries it lovingly off to her bed and sits with it, casting worried glances at you that she’s supposed to do something with it… but...
I wrote before about feeding the chickens, and whilst I know it’s entirely possible to feed your chickens entirely from scraps and leftovers and cooked-up mashes it was already clear that the best way forward for us is definitely a decent all-in-one pellet feed available at all times for the girls. This we can then top up as and when leftover scraps are available with...
It’s been running through my head for a week; “The chickens are coming! The chickens are coming!” We have been talking about keeping chickens for… oh, probably 23 years. Ever since we bought our house, and saw that the deeds allow us to keep 12 chickens and a cockerel. I mean really, if the deeds of your house state it, it’s almost a moral obligation, isn’t it? But we’ve never got further than...