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Hooray!  All 4 chickens trooped up into the indoor perching area on Saturday night so we were able to pull up the drawbridge and keep them safe from foxes – Tracey will be gutted if they get taken (see photo of her stroking and cuddling one).  Locking them away at night means getting up sharp to let them out in the morning but it means (hopefully) they are mch safer.

 

7 days – no eggs….. "Patience, patience, must not eat the useless chickens!"

Managed to catch the 3 chickens that needed their feathers trimming and we’re now a bit calmer about their chances of getting out of our garden into a neighbours garden where there are some fine flowers to wreck and another neighbour who is terrified of them. 

A couple of the chickens have got the hang of the coop perch and spent Thursday and Friday night inside, re-emerging the next morning to continue their constant foraging for food.

Tracey rang me on Wednesday morning to tell me that she had been woken by the "buk buk" of the chickens.  She was at the front of the house and the chicken coop is right at the bottom of the garden.  The neighbours will be pleased .  They are still sleeping outside at the moment as they still haven’t got to grips with the perhing facilities of the coop.  1 or 2 of them have been in to explore but not to sleep.

After we’d cleared up from Lauaras birthday party on Saturday night we cleared up the mess on the Sunday morning (the wind had blown down the gazebo that we had to put up to protect the partygoers from the rain that came down all day Saturday).  We then drove up the road to the "Chicken Farm" and picked up our chickens.  We’ve had 4 and the farmer dropped them into a large cardboard box to brin ngthem home.  Before he did this he showed me how to clip the wing of a chicken to prevent it from flying the coop – I don’t think I’m going to bother with the rest as it looked as though the chicken was bleeding (even though the farmer assured us that it did no harm).  Friend of ours have chickens that have not been clipped and they still have them so we’ll try the same.

 

The chickens spent all day in the bottom of the coop and we hoped that they would just go "upstairs to bed" when it began to get dark but they didn’t and instad all huddled together on the ground floor.  I thought it would be better to get them in the enclosed 1st floor so I picked them  up and put them to bed.  Monday morning and I let down the drawbridge but Tracey reported that by 14:30 they were still insde.  This could be because in their lives they have not been outside until now so don’t know what to do or because the are 16 (weeks) old they are typical teenagers and were staying in bed because they couldn’t be bothered to get up

 

Here’s pics of the chickens.

 

I’ll add another entry when they start to lay.