New Chickens:

We collect our new chickens tonight. We decided to buy 3 Light Sussex hens to add to our Isa Browns and cockerel.

The light Sussex, while not hybrids, are still good layers and not too flighty and are ideal for children to handle.

They will go in the exisitng pen while we make their new house (out of reclaimed timber and broken pallets). Once this is completed, all 10 chooks will be moving to the scrub area next to the house in an effort to clear it and prepare it for veg next spring. By the time they have pecked and scratched the land, there won't be a single slug left.