by julia | May 31, 2011 | Writing
So – that scrawny little thing eventually made it out (five hours later). And I’m proud to say I resisted the temptation to prise away the shell….It is flailing around quite horribly now, and its proud Mum is nudging it around with her beak –...
by julia | May 31, 2011 | Writing
OO la la, sometimes life in chickenville gets seriously exciting. Peaches, our darling little Pekin – so docile, so pretty – got in the mood for babies a month or so ago (inspired, naturally, by my putting three white plastic eggs in her nest). Being in...
by julia | Dec 2, 2010 | Writing
Seems a silly question, I know, when there’s so much of it about, when we’re burdened not by hunger but by obesity and early onset diabetes. It’s only the crazy doom-mongers with nothing else to worry about who nag about our importing more grub than...
by julia | Dec 1, 2010 | Writing
Life’s hard for a farmer when the cold comes. And for us mini-farmers too. With the ground solid as concrete and the grass stiff and grey, I am painfully aware how dull life has suddenly become for my chickens. There they huddle on the barren ground, unable to...
by julia | Oct 5, 2010 | Writing
Nice promotional number recorded in London earlier in the summer – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bf1jz
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