We’ve added some gorgeous little chicks to our menagerie, they still require heat so will be in brooder boxes until they are quite a bit older. We’ve increased the height of the chook pen fence to help protect them from foxes and have let the garden beds grow a green …
It is lovely to see the farm greening up everywhere and the creek running again. The chickens free range everywhere and think they own the place. We have a new addition to the horse herd, a little black shetland mare named Sharni.
The chickens have settled in really well since the move, but haven’t started laying again and we are all missing fresh free range eggs. I really didn’t want to go down the baby chicken route again (seeing as our success ratio of pullets to roosters is far less than 50%!) …