The chickens, we currently have 16 of them, are all rescues of some sort. Blackberry and Mathilda came from people who could not look after them any more for various reasons. The others are all rescues from battery farms in the area and arrived very scruffy looking with hardly any feathers left. All the older ones have developed into some very attached and tame birds who believe that they are pets. Watch out for them, they try to get into the house. While they have almost 10 acres to roam, they prefer to stay very close to us.
2 newcomers arrived in September 2018 for our daughter’s ag-day project which have meanwhile started to lay eggs. In September 2019 we got 2 new chicken for ag-day again. They are still small and are in process of being joined with the older ones.
2025 we inherited 5 chicken from friends who moved house and could not keep them. They were carefully introduced to our old ladies.
Meanwhile our old girls have all passed away and we have the 5 remaining brown shavers.
They are watching you 
Pretty Chooks 
Schael 
Baby chicks
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Nature has decided it’s spring
Apart from the usual winter farm activities, there has not been much exciting stuff happening. It’s been a typical winter with lots of rain, lots of mud but rather warm in comparison. It looks like nature has decided that it is spring.
