Les girls arrived on the 1st April. I have always wanted to keep chickens and we thought now would be a good time. Our friends Owen and Christine have a huge plot and keep lots of chickens and geese so we gleaned good information from them and they helped us pick up the food and birds. Owen told us that the birds were 20 weeks old and that they would not start to lay until they were 25 weeks old. Bearing in mind this is supposed to be a shared hoby, good old muggins was up at 7am to open the door and let the girls out. I thought I would look inside the coop just to see whether cleaning was a daily chore or not and there it was THE EGG. So, not enough for a quiche yet but who knows what tomorrow will bring.! Our Jack Russell, Eddie, took one look at the birds and decided they were boring, so I hope we wont have any trouble from him.
The weather is slowly warming up although we still have that annoyingly cold wind. All the plants are beginning to shoot up and the only one I am concerned about is my lovely bougainvillea which looks as though it has suffered badly with our -7 degree frosts. We will just have to wait and see. We are looking forward to a good summer with lots of interesting plants and hundreds of boiled, scrambled, poached and fried eggs ----- C'est la vie
