Our chooks page........

Are you obsessed with chickens ?

Are all your conversations with friends about chickens ?

When you get home is your first question "How are the chooks dear " ?

Do you sit up all night watching eggs hatch in an incubator ?

Do you get up at night to use the bathroom, and sneak down to look at the new chicks ?

Do you believe that your breed of chicken has more benefits than all the others those other people keep ?
Are home eggs tastier than supermarket ones ?
Do you spend every morning re-planting flowers that you chooks dug up yesterday ?
Is your home full of boxes of chicks, all different ages ?
Is your electricity useage for incubators, brooders, and garden lighting draining the National Grid ?

Yes ? ..........ok then, you are allowed to carry on reading........

Just like our son Paul, our chooks know how to drink, party and boogie the night away before just sleeping wherever they end up............

Our chosen breed is the Sussex, but we have kept quite a few different breeds along the way.
We started out with just two hens in the garden, but very quickly we had over ONE HUNDRED birds at home and on our allotments.
We made lots of mistakes along the way, but every one taught us something - although we had to make some of them TWICE before we learned our lesson!

There have been incubators in the living room, and chickens in the bedroom. The garden shed has been taken over as a chook kindergarten.

Mike has learned how to humanely kill the cockerels, and prepare them for the oven.

We've bought hatching eggs by post, and travelled the country to get the rare breeds that we wanted.

We've even bought a hen complete with her brood of chicks at an auction.....

We've bought chook houses from local small ads and carted sheds home on our trailer to use as chicken houses.

We've had beautiful Buff Sussex bantams free-ranging in our garden......

...and Buffy the Wormslayer told stories of her life with us.

However, we now are concentrating on large fowl Coronation Sussex, a very rare breed, and have been working hard on improving our small flock....

We are quite pleased with the results so far.

We have learned a huge amount along the way and that knowledge is now available in Mike's book....

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