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Sparrowhawk hangs about
I locked the chickens up at 4.30pm. All were fine and there were no visitors in the main run or the cockerel runs. I went back out at 6.30pm to feed the pigs, but stopped when Harvey, our Border...
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Keeping chickens: basics
Small-scale chicken keeping goes through regular bouts of increased popularity, depending on media coverage of issues that catch the public eye: ‘living the good life’, animal welfare, the cost of...
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Keeping chickens: the site
During winter, our hens are confined to a large run for their protection. The cockerels have separate housing. One of the advantages of keeping chickens is that they are small enough to make it...
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Keeping chickens: housing
There are so many different approaches to housing chickens that it is difficult to decide which style to go with, which materials to go with and whether to build or buy, especially for people looking...
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Keeping chickens: The Run
To thrive and do well, chickens need access to an outdoor area where they can forage, dust bathe, exercise and indulge their natural behaviours. The chicken run fulfils those requirements, whether...
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Welcome to the bog
We’ve had heavy rain and numerous hail storms for a week, transforming the croft from a hillside to a bog. It’s not quite the worst we’ve had it, yet, but that’s only because we didn’t start with snow...
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Enter the Lone Dungslinger
Shloop, shloop, blurp… hurgh! Squelch, squelch, plop, squelch, squelch, squelch, hurgh! SHPLOOMPH! Yes, it’s one of those days where the Lone Dungslinger spends hours extracting, carrying and hurling...
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‘It’s a jungle out there!’
Months of rain have prevented the cockerel pens drying out. In normal conditions, the ground in the pens is wet or frozen in winter and early spring, dries out in late spring or early summer and can be...
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Exploding eggs
Shortly after 6pm, I mixed the evening feed for the chickens, poured it into a bucket and walked around to the first of the chicken runs out on the hill. I do the job day in, day out, which makes for a...
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Hens back in lay
Better later than never… A couple of our hens have decided it's time to come back into lay. Now for the other 30.— Stonehead (@stonehead1) March 08, 2013 Filed under: Crofting, Farming &...
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