Thank you. The big girls seem pretty much back to normal but yesterday's egg (the only big layer is Mrs Brown) had a line round the middle, presumably from the moment of the shock. Phoebe looks very sorry for herself. I don't think she came down from her shelf at all yesterday. There's food and wate...

We've been at my partner's house for a couple of months now and I've found a lovely smallholding that we're hopefully buying. I'm currently waiting for searches and survey which I'm expecting to throw up further things to look into. And all was going well with the chickens in the garden here until t...

I think I'm now on the home run with this house, so to speak. The clearance is underway and I'm madly packing boxes (and vacuuming bits of floor that haven't seen daylight for years) so I'll be back in Wales soon. My partner says the chickens all seem fine, the minichas have started getting out into...

At the moment I am back at Mum's house in St Leonards on Sea and my partner is in charge of the chickens. He is worried that the poor little Minichas are still not having a very good time, mostly sitting up on their shelf (there is food and water up there for them) and seldom getting out of the shed...

The odd day that they didn't get out until later it was still just one or none so I think they really aren't laying. I moved them to Wales yesterday so they're now all living in the shed together. I don't think the little girls are enjoying it much yet as they're having to avoid the big girls at muc...

My retired working girls seem to be very much retired. I've recently only been getting about four eggs a week from the three of them. I'm a little surprised that it's happened so fast as I only got them in January and from what I've read rescues usually lay for a good bit longer. They seem pretty he...

Well it's a year on and I'm about to do the journey the other way, back to Wales. Instead of three cats and two chickens this time it'll be two cats and five chickens. (Don't worry, my partner's cats are already back in Wales with him so I've gained Mum's cat, not lost one.) I had to buy another cat...

There are some holey bits round the edges so we've been trying to fill them a bit with the rubble. I'm not sure how well it will stay in there with chickens digging around but we'll keep an eye on it. I've got a sack of easibed so there will still be most of that when we move as I only use a couple ...

Once I've cleared Mum's house, and while her estate is being sorted and house being sold, we're going to be staying at my partner's house from where we can look for a smallholding. There is a large (approx 9sqm) block built shed with double glazed windows and door at the bottom of the garden which w...

Ooh, it's been ages since I posted, things have been very busy. In June last year we moved to look after my Mum and the chickies were curled up happily in a small cat basket full of straw for the six hours of my first long (and rather slow) motorway drive. They settled in fine but I was so busy look...

Hello Henpals, Phoebe from the house of Minicha reporting in to say that this moving house lark is really great. I recommend that chickens everywhere campaign to move house. Why? Because it involves loads and loads of extra treats!! We had to go in a basket to go in the car and we didn't really want...

Thank you everyone :) We came down yesterday afternoon/evening and it did take around six hours including a good break at Reading for me to eat something (sitting in the car with the doors open) while they all had a drink and one cat basket had a change of blanket. So all arrived safely. Bit worried...

I'm moving house in a couple of days (hence why I've been so quiet) and will be taking three cats and two bantams in my car the day before the furniture is moved. Looking online the journey is listed as taking approximately four hours but I've only been driving for a couple of months so I'm guessing...

Both girls are egging really well now, I even made a quiche, but still the occasional softie popping up. Perhaps they just feel like scrambled egg for supper sometimes. A couple of days ago I spotted something odd on Angel's leg and from reading around it looks like scaly leg mite. I didn't have any...

OH tells me of the time during the war years, that his mum had one of their 3 rabbits killed for dinner and no one could eat it, so what a waste of it's life. My Mum said that they bred rabbits during the war but nobody ate their own. They'd take one to the butcher and come away with a prepared rab...