Pok pok pok pokkkk!!!

21st March 2009

Exactly one month after our wedding we finally took the plunge and got our chickens!!
We have been talking about chickens forever and so nearly got them a few times... then... we started talking about them again.....

We popped to the local place to go for chicken houses, just for a look aaaand bought the Ark that I have had my eye on for the last 5 years, a lovely traditional looking wooden one in the shape of a triangle with the roost and nest box above and the run underneath. Fraggle excitedly backed up his new toy (the jeep) only to find that the Ark was about an inch too big to fit... so we zoomed off to find a roof rack only to find that we had to order the part. We decided to strap it to the roof with blankets yee haaa.

Between all the zooming about we visited the place where I had seen 'point-of-lay' chickens, awwwwwwwww they were so ace, cleverly I forgot my cash in all the excitement...grrrr..... that gave us chance to collect the ark and drop it off at home, exchanging it for the Thomas monster who came back to help choose the chucks!!

The man with the chickens had asked if we could take our own box.... boxes are hard to come by these days, but we had one, perfect size!! So we bundled three girlies into their SLOW COOKER box (haaaaaaaaahahahahaa!!) We chose an Amber Star (white) Black Star (black and brown also greeny in some lights) and a Bluebelle (a bluey grey).

Fraggle needed to stop at the shop on the way home so Thomas and I had to have a look teeheee they were sooo funny poking their heads out and pekking furiously....sunddenly we realised they were insanely pecking at the tiny left over pieces of polystyrene in the box arghhhh, I hadn't even noticed that, we spent the rest of the time that fraggle was in the shop trying to beat the chickens to the polystyrene and flicking it all over fraggle's new toy heeehee!!

I was dropped off at home with the girlies while the boys zoomed off on a secret mission, the perfect opportunity for some chicken cuddling yey!! Then they were all bundled back into the box while we built the ark (haha) It didn't take too long, went together really well. We put the wood chippings in the roost bit and the straw in the nest box and popped in the girlies...time for bed ZzzZZZzzZZzzzz.... pok...... pok..... zzZZZzzzz...