Our New Life in the Country: The Chickens Have the Right Idea

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

The Chickens Have the Right Idea

The chickens have the right idea at the moment, at the first sign of any sunshine they stop what they are doing and all rush over to the sunny areas of Chicken World.

As Spring gets closer the sun hits their little part of our hillside much sooner in the day, and then later on in the Summer they benefit from it all day long and then they have the choice to either bask in it's luxurious warmth or make for the shadier areas behind the henhouse or into the edge of the woods when it gets too much.

It's nice to see them mooching about, chunnering away to each other as if they are putting the world to rights, with the odd crowing session from Jack the cockerel, who is sat just at the edge of the Eglu in this photo.

Little Enid stood at the fence looks a sorry sight .... but she is just sulking!

She had a little escape hatch where a squirrel had chewed through a couple of the strands of the fence and whenever she saw me she would dash out of it and come over to see if I had any nibbles, but as she could never find her way back in by herself I had to repair it .... now there is no escape and she sulks ... oh well at least she is sulking in the sunshine :-)

Sue xx

11 comments:

rusty duck8 March 2016 at 09:13
The chickens have exactly the right idea.. I am doing likewise. Such fleeting opportunities are far too good to miss.
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Living Alone in Your 60's8 March 2016 at 09:42
I'm sitting on the warm sofa in my conservatory every opportunity I get. Bring bathed in sunshine is just the tonic i need.
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jackiescrafts8 March 2016 at 10:08
The chickens certainly have the right idea,
I'm enjoying the Suns warmth in my new kitchen or lounge whenever it puts in an appearance just now
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Simon Douglas Thompson8 March 2016 at 11:05
Poor old thwarted chicken!
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e8 March 2016 at 11:45
Poor chook...Sun is a necessary tonic for all of us...
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Unknown8 March 2016 at 12:01
Bless little Enid Sue I would sulk to, but its great to see them basking in the sunshine. Enid is a gorgeous colour. I love my hens iv only had them 2 weeks but they have got under my skin and I cant imagine not having them now I love calling their names as I walk down to them and hear them start chattering :-) dee x
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Mrs LH8 March 2016 at 13:38
They're so clever aren't they! Our old cat used to follow the sun around the garden so she never missed out.
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The Weaver of Grass8 March 2016 at 14:21
A bit of good old sunshine makes us all feel better - including the hens.
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Mum8 March 2016 at 15:43
Poor Enid.
xx
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Jan8 March 2016 at 21:04
I enjoy your posts about Chicken World. We are starting our own chicken world with 10 baby chicks and a lovely coop my husband just built. We've never raised chickens before, so this should be an adventure!
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BadPenny9 March 2016 at 08:59
I think we are al dashing for the sun patches at the moment ! X
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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