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Wilful destruction
Here are some photos taken in January 2015. It took a long time for my border collie Holly to get bored of the garden pond, but she never gets bored of ice. Holly’s job (as she sees it) is to … Continue reading
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Tagged black and white, ice, monochrome, photography, pond
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Goodbye to Top Hen
More sad chicken news to report. Willow Chicken – always Top Hen – stopped laying a couple of months ago, so I’ve been expecting a downward turn. She suddenly looked very unhappy last week, with a very swollen abdomen, and … Continue reading
Getting adventurous
Our front garden has now been home to four ex-batt hens for nearly two months. They settled in remarkably quickly, going from scared-of-their-own-shadow to we’ve-always-been-here in just a few weeks, and taking bully-chicken Willow and chicken-herder Holly in their stride. … Continue reading
Goodbye, hello
A short while ago I had to say goodbye to one of my diminishing flock of chickens. Ivy Chicken had stopped laying, and I was already suspicious of another malfunctioning chicken when she took a turn for the worse. Do … Continue reading
Further chicken traumas
Well, I predicted that Hazel chicken wouldn’t make it to Christmas and yesterday she proved me right. Whatever the malfunction was that stopped her laying has finally beaten her, so I’ll be digging another hole down the allotment shortly. RIP … Continue reading
Not what I was hoping to tell you
There are no guarantees in nature, but I was rather hoping that I’d be keeping you updated on our garden blackbird shenanigans. Sadly, this is not to be. Something (I’m thinking mink, but I really don’t know) emptied the nest. One … Continue reading
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The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen
For over a year we’ve had a tame blackbird living in our garden. With her pied plumage, she was easy to spot. More an honorary chicken than a blackbird, she would chide me if I was late in the morning … Continue reading
Pavlov chain reaction
We’ve had our border collie Holly for six months and the chickens for nearly three. Despite Holly’s best efforts I still have four chickens, but Holly is intensely jealous of any attention I give them. A routine has settled into … Continue reading
The mysterious case of the disappearing chicken
We have chickens! The run arrived early January but it took us until the Easter holidays to finally get round to getting the chooks. So far they’ve dutifully stayed inside the garden gate, but this afternoon one of them sneaked … Continue reading
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Tagged backyard chickens, chickens, keeping chickens
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Coming round for dinner
New house, new garden. I’m still getting to know my new avian neighbours. House sparrow, chaffinch, blackbird, siskin, wren, robin, blue tit, coal tit… the garden is constantly abuzz. Well not today it isn’t, as I’ve had a special dinner … Continue reading
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