Our new Girls...

After naughty Mr Fox took our last chickens last Autumn, I have wanted to get more hens. The potential move to the States meant I have put this on the back-burner but I finally decided I've had enough of waiting for Visas and have got more chickens!

So, here are the girls! F is delighted to be in charge of the chickens, and between tea and homework and spellings we went out THREE TIMES with F's penguin torch last night at dusk to try to put them to bed. F tried to tempt them into their Omlet with lettuce from the veg patch, then spotted a huge slug and delightedly put the slug into their house and waited for them to come running (which they didn't!)

We checked them this morning, and they were settling in nicely. And even better than that, after school F's inspection revealed we had an egg today! F and O are thrilled, and have requested bacon and scrambled eggs for tea. We are so excited, we thought we'd have to wait 6 weeks for them to start laying! Hooray!