Well it's early days yet, I just hope we get accepted

Keep your fingers crossed for me

We have been thinking about doing this for a while now, anyway took the plunge yesterday and made contact, we fit the basic criteria so am now waiting to hear from them what the next step in the application process is. I've been chatting with a lady who is on her 3rd puppy and she's helped answer a ...

Hubby is being bullied by our hens, yesterday sat out having breakfast and he was mugged for his toast straight out of his hand! Today he is relaxing reading sunday papers and eating lunch in the garden rocking chair, hen jumps up onto arm of chair grabs at his butty and in all the commotion sends g...

Mine even seem to recognise the sound of my car pulling up on the road outside the house!

I agree Steve it's all making me feel very hungry, thanks for the suggestions , please keep them coming.

I HATE cooking but seriously need to start loosing some weight and eating more healthily as well as feed a hubby and 2 growing kids. I really need some simple ideas for meals and snacks that are easy to prepare low in calories and ingredients easy to get hold of, we can't just keep eating the only m...

We live on a busy corner in suburbia, close to a primary school, so a lot of people walk past our garden, it always makes me smile when someone is walking past the fence (its 7 foot high so they can't see in the garden) and the chooks are making a noise, I've seen people stop and listen and look qui...

Yep I can sympathise with how your feeling, Hubby just keeps biting his tongue and avoids doing anything that might wind me up, which is hard cos most things annoy me when I'm feeling like that. Usually just want to be left alone and eat chocolate!! Problem is now my daughters getting hormonal, God ...

the only chickens in the world that don't eat slugs, sweetcorn or grapes?

Itchy wrote:so where are the piccies

If anyone goes to Alton Towers will they take a photo of the chickens please

Oh brilliant thanks, going to dash off now and look up brahmas on the web

Has anyone been to the farm at Alton Towers? we went and they had these fabulous big chickens wandering around, I think they may of been Cochins cos they had feathered legs. It was these that made hubby want hens but we couldn't find any Cochins available so ended up with Orpingtons, but we still ha...

lovely pots

Thanks for asking Said it is hormone related, gave her some cream for her dry skin and suggested some over the counter remedies may be worth a try first before she prescribes anything harsher. So we got some gentle toner and some Witch stick for the spots. Dr said it was trial and error to see what ...

sounds like your having fun