Some Home Truths

These chooks are reminding me of my children at the moment: pecking each other in the head one minute and curling up together sweetly the ...

I've been thinking a lot about holidays this last week. Yes, I know I'd have to get someone to look after the chooks... Perhaps rem...

Until having our own girls , I never noticed how many English idioms and phrases relate to chickens. While they cluck and scratch I peg th...

'Make sure you don’t clip through the living part of the feather. It will start bleeding and that can be potentially fatal.’ Not the c...

What is it about 6pm? It’s been four days now and each evening at 6pm, Chippy and Axy jump the gate. It’s like they’re flying home to roost ...

Stuart left for the airport at 5am. It was the chooks second morning here and my first morning of letting them out. I dosed until daybreak, ...

Ned came running up to me as he left the classroom after the bell went. With his huge smile and arms outstretched I felt touched that he was...