Little box of clucks

Baby chickens are like weeds, they grow so clucking fast it's not funny. I think you could almost sit and watch them grow. Each day I notice something new or different about them. Over the course of the past week Vanessa has even changed colour! Initially when we were out choosing the chickens I was worried that the kids in particular had picked two that were quite similar in colour and thought that as they grew it might become difficult to tell them apart. Vanessa (closest to the camera) was only a tiny bit more yellow than Mrs Egg (with her rear to the camera) and they both had white looking feathers on their wings, with Mrs Egg just a tiny bit more pristine white. Left to right: Mrs Egg, Winona, Goldie and Vanessa Fast forward two days later and Vanessa has started sprouting ginger feathers on her chest and above her wings. Currently her wings are beige. Another day or two and Vanessa is looking very different indeed. Now she is colouring up more like...

I only ordered the coop on Friday night and it arrived Tuesday afternoon. I got home from work to find hubby and the kids had started assembling it and the job was quickly delegated to me. Flat pack is horrendous at the best of times, the instructions were clear enough but all the little clips on the run were doing my head in, my thumbs were bruised by the time we were done. Luckily hubby got back home and helped me or I think I would have still been slaving away at midnight. We chose the Eglu Cube by Omlet, it is not cheap but thought the timber ones would deteriorate quickly and the plastic construction would be easy to clean. It also has the separate nesting box section and looked really easy to move, which we plan to do a lot to prevent the grass from getting destroyed (ok we have high hopes ask us again in 6-12 months). Finally finished at around 7pm, slightly harder to move that I was expecting due to how plush our grass is, but won't be moving it as far in pract...