Happy New Year!!!

From my nest to yours. xxxxx

Now, roll on summer!!! :) x

A little late but Merry Christmas!!!!

As you can see, my flock has new members.  Gertrude has been with us since Spring, as a day old Gosling.  Mary joined us two weeks before Christmas, saved from the Christmas table.  Both completely different in temperament from my chickens but both adorable in every way.

They, I and the chickens, all wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! xxxxxx

Goodness me! How long has it been?!!!!

Huge, massive, enormous apologies for my tardiness.  I'm not going to look at the last blog date but it's been over a year, I'm sure.

The last year has been spent moving out to a cottage in the country and settling everyone down. The English countryside is incredibly beautiful and the ideal spot for chickens. :)

The girls first day in their new home.

Exploring the garden.

Making new friends.

Sadly, not long after we moved, we lost Pearl to a buzzard attack.  It was incredibly upsetting to find her and so we have decided not to have anymore bantams.

There have been a couple of other changes in my flock since my last post. Annie, my lovely Barred Rock sadly became not so lovely and started to victimise a particular flock member, to a point where she couldn't free range.  The regularity and ferocity showed no sign of decreasing and this was not a great situation, but luckily a farmer friend of mine had a small flock that free ranged the whole farm and he was more than willing to take her home. I've since heard she has settled in and doesn't have any issues with her new flock. Phew!

Two new arrivals are 'Edith', a French wheaten Maran and 'Vera', a Cream Legbar.  I particularly wanted these two breeds for the eggs they lay.  Edith lays huge, dark brown eggs and Vera's are a beautiful blue.

My hen's have been described as 'Farrow & Ball chooks'!

Farrow & Ball

Edith

Vera

There is also another new member to our flock but she need a whole post to herself...

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Fly high over Rainbow Bridge, dear Pearl xxx

Chicken Fashion!

It cold in the U.K at the moment, it's also very wet, miserable and flooded.

Peggy is moulting.  She also has a bit of a cold so, as a surprise, Courtney bought her a chicken jumper!

Technically, it's a tank-top but Peggy is not too fussed about fashion, technical terms.

Peggy in her new jumper.  Does the blue match my eyes?

Violet's head was in a spin when she saw Peggy's new attire.

Mabel & Pearl stuffing their faces, in the background,
yet to experience the visual wonder of a chicken jumper!

 Peggy tried not to notice Violet, admiring her new fashion style.

We left Peggy and her gaggle of chicken jumper admirers and went for a day out in Worcester, which is also flooded at the moment.

We saw swans, a lot of swans!

I have never seen so many swans in one place before.

The area, past the building in the background and just past the lamppost and tree, is usually a walk-way alongside the river.  
The swans are very much making the most of the floods. (So are the pigeons.)

Courtney tried tempting the swans with jumpers...

...the swans were not impressed with the offer.

A disapproving swan.

None of the swans were interested in fashion accessories, they are quite beautiful and warm enough.

There's no denying it, they are quite beautiful. 

I would love to have a swan, I think the Queen could spare one, she seems to have quite a lot. 

Maybe she suffers from swan math?! :D

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Chicken TV Stars!

I love this video.  The girls seem happy and calm, even closing theirs eyes.  I wouldn't like it if they looked stressed.

I hope it helps to promote chickens, as well as Mercedes-Benz. :) .

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Happy New Year! x

The gals had a great year, we hope you did too! xxx

Thank you for reading our little blog. x

Have a wonderful 2014

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