Three French hens
Our hens – all three of them – have a French ‘laissez faire’ attitude to free-ranging. We’ve granted them the freedom to roam the gully area of the Little Owls all day long and...
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Chipped, Cracked and Broken
Glancing at where the eggs had been laid, the children’s game ‘Chipped, Cracked and Broken’ came to mind. We were back home after a few days visiting family in Auckland. The two grandchildren, eight-year-old...
“Chickens – a way of life!”
Having chickens in your life is so hot right now. If you’re not obsessed yourself, you know someone who is. Within a few years, keeping backyard chooks has gone from being something your nanna...
Pumpkins
The co-worker passed them to the burly, with a hint of surly, removal van driver and he put them inside the A-frame meat rabbit run that he’d wedged between furniture items. Some placatory light-hearted...
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