Phew

by | 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 –...
Birth pangs

Birth pangs

by | 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...