Fowl Play
19 Jan 2009 by Martin Wroe
At the end of December, Generous member Geoff Crawford, in Hackney, east London, took delivery of three chickens. This week the family received their first eggs.. and they just keep coming.
Read about how to buy your own urban coop, the chickens, the problem of foxes… and how soon you break even. ‘Back of a fag packet calculations have shown that we should break even on egg production/consumption costs within the year.’
See Geoff’s freshly laid eggs here
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Martin Wroe
Reading The Polysyllabic Spree, listening to Josh Ritter, inspired by Dr Paul Farmer, follower of Arsene Wenger, lover of Holloway, trying to eat less meat, writer of poetry, optimistic about… things in general.
London, GB , 23 Jan 2009
Shortly after seeing this I stumbled across this nice “how-to” article on keeping chickens. I’m not sure our garden’s quite appropriate, but for anyone who’s considering it…
http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2009/how-to-keep-hens-and-influence-people/
Godalming, GB , 25 Jan 2009
It depends how small your garden is, but Almost Mrs Average of the Rubbish Diet blog is planning to keep a few chickens in an Eglu in a fairly small garden.
http://therubbishdiet.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-years-resolutions-in-almost-average.html
Eglus seem designed for small gardens, as well as fairly small chickens. If anyone is wondering if they could fit some chickens in their small garden, Mrs A should be recording her progress as a chicken keeper fairly soon. The Eglu arrived last week.
http://therubbishdiet.blogspot.com/2009/01/eglu-has-landed.html
Godalming, GB , 26 Feb 2009
Just to say we have our chickens now, and they are fun to watch. If you think you could cope with a few rabbits in the garden, then why not have chickens instead and enjoy your own fresh eggs. Chickens are probably more interesting than rabbits, although not quite so cuddly.
Oxford, GB , 30 Mar 2009
We got three chickens for Christmas. They are great to have around. We have two rabbits as well, and the chickens (well Margot at least) is actually more cuddly than the rabbits – the rabbits are extremely scratchy, somewhat feral.
Cheltenham, GB , 02 Apr 2009
We’ve had ours for a month now. as we have lots of young boys we opted for 5 wk old chicks and already they are eating out of hands and allowing our 5 year old to carry them around! We are free ranging them in part of the garden but chose a wood coop with integral run incase the garden gets a hammering or we go away overnight. Recommend the small faily farm that made it – you can find them at www.smithsectionalbuildings.co.uk/
They even switched the design to the reverse for us so that we can take the eggs from the boxes and the whole thing works for the corner of our garden nicely and we chose wire all the way round to help spot any vermin hidey holes. (no vermin yet!)
As a friend recently commented: ‘a garden without chickens is like a night without stars!’ ;-)