Category Archives: Vi

Colour coding (corrected)

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Michael

OK, so yesterday’s supposedly educated guesswork actually turned out to be far less accurate than our rather more blatant guesswork from before.  And I hold my own hands up to this, since my wife Jane stuck to the previous guesswork … Continue reading →

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Colour coding

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Michael

After Monday’s blatant guesswork, the chickens’ egg production over Tuesday and Wednesday has enabled us to draw some hopefully firmer conclusions about who’s laying what.  [UPDATE: Much of this turned out to be wildly inaccurate – see the corrected version … Continue reading →

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Next, the electrified razor wire

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Michael

Well, this should put a lid on any further escape attempts.  Quite literally. Actually, the main function of this blue tarpaulin serving as a makeshift roof is to keep the pen dry(ish) and stop the feed in the feeders from … Continue reading →

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The Great Escape #3

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Michael

It’s been bucketing down with rain all morning, yet all four chickens have been blithely pottering around the pen for most of it.  Truly, their ways are not our ways. And then Vi seized the opportunity to mount a third … Continue reading →

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What happens when you…

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Michael

…throw a single slice of melon into a pen containing four chickens?  We saw them giving us the answer yesterday evening, laughed a lot, and asked them to put on a repeat performance in better light today.

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The Great Escape #2

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Michael

“Oh my God, what’s that?” I quickly scanned the garden, alighting on the swing, on which my son was doing his level best to strangle himself but still seemed hale and hearty. “No, not him – on top of the … Continue reading →

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The Great Escape #1

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Michael

The chickens are pretty blasé about adults approaching them, but they queue up expectantly whenever they spot what they probably refer to as “red-haired food girl”, because her arrival usually coincides with them getting some kind of treat (usually a … Continue reading →

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Wakey wakey

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Michael

For the fourth successive day (possibly the fifth, but we didn’t think to look on their first morning here), all four chickens emerged first thing in strict pecking order – first Pearl and Vi, then a pause, then Queenie, and … Continue reading →

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They’re here!

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Michael

…and here’s a truly terrible iPhone photo to mark the occasion: Clockwise from top left they’re Vi, Ida, Pearl and Queenie, transported in two cardboard boxes by car from a farm somewhere between Chichester and Havant, and there was a … Continue reading →

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