Over the weekend my brother-in-law and hubby generously built me (and my family!) a gorgeous big chicken house!
Here is a photo of them finishing up:
and inside:
So yesterday we went into town and got these four chickens. I'm pretty sure the two brown are Isa Brown's and the two black are the Australorp Hybrid x's.
My 5 yr old son owns the two brown and my 3yr old son owns the two black. The brown ones have been named 'Crusty' and 'Chocolate' (!?!) and Master 5 swears he can tell them apart...
The black one's have not any names just yet. Who know's what they will end up being called!
All going well I will pick up two black frizzle bantam pullets on Thursday which will be my little chickens. They are not great layers like the other four (which are bred for laying!) but they are quite motherly I have read. So when I would like to increase the gang a little and they are broody, I can slip some fertilised eggs under one or both of them and they will take care of them. Well, that's the idea. We'll see how it all goes!
1 comment:
That looks great! Lucky you fresh free ranged eggs.
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