Rachel's Journal

Easy solution there Rachel just call Mr Tweedy she has a machine to sort those hens out :-) 

Aw! They can't help thinking the grass is greener on the other side.  Bet they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  they look like right characters.  I love chickens they are so tasty.

Give them one more chance.......'till Easter at least !!!

Very healthy looking hens Rachel, great to see, well done

Ha ha that one in the middle has an expression on his/her face just like a bold child! 

"Freedom! "

Like Jacinta's remark! Ladies of character! but very annoying !

Show them a roasting tray,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,that should work ;-))

I have found that the hybrid hens, like yours above, never did too much damage but I have two Jersey Giants, hatched and raised here, not at full size and they can dig an a frightening rate. To date I have left the hens ramble around the garden but I am going to build run to contain them in the next few days.

Paddy 

nooo. don't cook them. they are lovely. but i know how you feel they can do a lot damage with the bulbs and small plants.

I have one bed which has a large selection of snowdrops and I covered this in leafmould last autumn. The hens absolutely adored the leafmould and it became the first place they headed for whenever they got a chance and that really annoyed me to see the snowdrops being scratched so regularly.

Soon, their freedom will be severely curtailed and my snowdrops will be safer.

Paddy 

:))

A love/hate relationship, huh?

Like my pups at the moment love hate relationship as Perwinkle says.

Those hens are not flavour of the month with me. So they better watch out otherwise they will be 'flavour of the month'!

Actually, it's been a miserable winter for them. You can tell how they are enjoying getting out and about.

Dave, they are very healthy considering the hardship of winter. One of the hens was poorly when we got her but she has made a full recovery (although blind in one eye) and now is a good weight and lays most days.