I've titled this "Surprise" Chicks, but rarely am I surprised by the chickens these days. I had a few hens broody in the the o...

 A friend of dads has a big chicken farm and they sometimes offer us birds when they have their cull to replace with younger birds. These we...

Argh! Like buses, broody hens always seem to come at once. The irony of these four hens from my breeding pen of four Indian Game hens is tha...

We have lots going on with the poultry on the smallholding at the moment.  I've made some new pens, repaired old ones and seem so...

If you've read this blog over the 8 years I've been writing it you'll know that in that time I've kept a lot of different c...

I seem to have a lot of chickens here at the moment. I haven't spoken about them much this year on the blog so I thought I'...

On my last post Jo mentioned that she didn't have anywhere to keep chicks under a heat lamp. This is initially what put me off get...

Last year we had great success growing some meat birds for the freezer, so as everything else winds down I thought it would be a great thi...

We had an absolutely mad weekend where we didn't seem to stop!  We went out on Friday night with friends (this is almost becoming ...

My pasture chicken coops are working our great, fresh grass each day, helps to keep the chickens healthy. My chicken plans change day by...

I'm really pleased with my lately creation.  I set myself a design brief on a good movable chicken coop, that's easy to construct...

I got 20 new chickens for the homestead on Sunday night. These are ex commercial birds again (Hi line) from a free ranged flock where t...

My girls were far more excited about this mishap that I was.  A hen has managed to hatch out a clutch of eggs on the 11 of October - the ...

Yesterday I wrote a post about keeping chickens near the house and one of the advantages I listed was being able to easily feed your chicke...

In trying to get my chicken keeping in order I'm planning on changing my feeders.  I currently use small galvanized feeders. The tr...

At the weekend I managed to have a good sort out with the chickens.  I cleaned all the coops and put fresh bedding in each one. I fixed ...

 On Sunday we finally got round to moving the young chickens that we hatched out earlier in the year into their bigger pen. I got the ele...

A friend of mine is hatching some eggs using a broody chicken so I thought I'd do a quick post with some tips for success and then any...