Rachel's Journal

Hi Rachel, delighted that you PLUCKED up the courage to keep hens.  I will be watching with great interest.  I am sure the kids will be delighted and I look forward to some nice meringues.  Good luck with your new venture.

How exciting Rachel.  I'm excited for you all.  It's a very impressive coop. Good luck with it.

Oh the best of luck am delighted you got them as you have such space.

Looks great and you wont have to worry about foxes, it seems so secure!! Fresh eggs every morning for breakfast now. Best of luck with it.

very good. I visited my uncle last Friday with my dad he gave us fresh hen and duck eggs they were lovely :O)

I'll be watching carefully too Rachel, as her indoors fancied keeping hens too, can send you on the light requirement guide for hens I got at the Bay Garden chicken talk last year would you use that Rachel?  Baking and Boiled, fried poached and omlettes galore!!

Oh brilliant. You will start getting all broody all over again now. Seriously though, you will NOT regret it. Best of luck with them.

I too will wait with interest as I want to have chickens (my husband keeps saying no - but I will where him down! The coop looks brilliant! where are you getting them from?

we have 4 hens we have so many eggs we are giveing them away did you know you can freeze them Ann has lots frozen.

Hello Rachel. Well done regarding the hens. I suppose what you give them is chicken feed.

You cannot lose with hens. If their good hens you get eggs for the breakfast and fertiliser for the lawn. If there bad hens you get a few chicken dinners and you have a large hut to keep the new rabbit in.

Go to work on an egg! Best of luck with your new venture.

good Luck Rachel. congrats. let me know if any worries or anything you need to know. we keep them over an year and never regret- except when one escaped to polytunnel.

Well done!, very posh looking henhouse!

Best of luck, the kids will love them.

Ha,ha,,Spider said so good:))Good luck Rachel!!!

This is a real upmarket henhouse, kids will really enjoy not just eating the eggs but possibly if their like kids I know develop a nice little business. Good luck to all with the new additions

Thanks, Linda, Una & Clara.

I hope we will not suffer from foxes, LNolan, I think nothing short of an electric fence will stop a determined fox.

Yes, Siobhan & Bill, plenty of fresh eggs. I would use that guide, Bill, next time we meet up.

Ha ha, Jacinta. You and Linda make a witty team!

Bridgette, we got the everything from Old McDonald's in Carlow. Keep working on that hubby!

Thanks, John, for that tip. Would you freeze eggs shell and all?

Dick, yes chicken feed to start with anyway. We will look at other options later.

Sean, don't tell my kids about the rabbits. They're happy with the chicken idea at the minute. I hope everything goes well.

Thanks, Ruth & Jurga. I may be contacting you yet, Jurga. This is all new to me. I hope the chicken didn't do too much damage in the polytunnel.

Thanks, Myrtle. I like the look of the hen house too. It looks bigger in the photo than in real life.

Thanks, Fran & Liga.

Can't imagine my kids having enough business acumen to start a business, Geraldine! Getting my teenage son through his transition year mini-project was bad enough!

Love the chicken house.  Wouldn't want one personally but it does look great.  Best of luck with them.