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They’re here!
Yesterday (Sunday) we finally welcomed not one, not two, but three new additions to the Carter household – Lily, Chicken Licken, and Dave. That second name should give you a clue as to what manner of...
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FOX!!!!!!!!!!!
Foxes, we discovered this morning, are very fond of chickens. A little bit too fond, in fact. It was an ordinary morning – the girls were playing Harry Potter on the computer, the chickens were in the...
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Morning mayhem
Well, mayhem is probably too strong a word for it, but as you can see in the video below, getting the chickens back in their coop of a morning isn’t always easy! We had a lovely day yesterday (Sunday)...
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Chicken update
Cool, Queen and Sergeant Rock are slowly settling in to their new home. They still haven’t realised that there’s a ramp connecting the outside part of the coop to the inside – at night we have to...
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There’s a…! There’s a…?
Squawk! Flap! Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Squawk! Damn it, there’s a fox in the garden! There’s a f… Where’s the fox? Oh. Right. There’s no fox. It’s just Queen-Cool the chicken leaping the fence and...
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One of these things is not like the other
Two pieces of news today, both exciting, but not to everyone in the house. We’re getting two more ex-battery chickens next weekend, plus, I’ve downloaded a copy of Frozen for the girls to watch (the...
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More chickens
Not for the first time on this blog, we have a couple of new arrivals – welcome two Rhode Island Reds, Winter and Jewel, to our our happy family. I wanted to call Winter something else – Firestorm the...
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Get off the fence!
This is not, as you may have expected, a political diatribe, but a plea for Jewel the chicken to get down off the fence, and for Winter the chicken to get back in the goddamn coop. Turns out we’ve...
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Poorly poultry
It’s a bad time to be a chicken in Bexley right now, with both Jewel and Flamingo lost in the last few weeks. What killed them? Good question. Probably old age more than anything else. Both girls began...
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Who loves ya, baby?
We’ve been a one-chicken family for almost six months now, since Flamingo and Jewel both faded away and died within a couple of weeks of each other. Fortunately, Winter the chicken seems to be...
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