We need more chicken pictures!
Have you seen the Chilton Rail ads lately at stations with the hybrid family out on excursions? Its brightened up my commute

The greatest danger from these pears, Chris, is one falling on your head. They are like mini cannonballs and even a diligent chicken can only peck through half a day! But they do go squishy and brown after a good bruising so Ive been chucking those ones out.

Warwickshire Wildlife Trust have reported Otters spotted in the Rive Leam! Where I walk the dog in the morning! Happy days!

Thats a brilliant defense against being eaten!
Its pears on the menu here - the wind today knocked lots off the tree.

The ads have gone for me. I did notice one that seemed to be offering a logging in service which seemed a bit fishy. I would think that Google vetted the ads that they place but I cant think why anyone would want a third party logging in for them. The ad says: Sign in to your Account Easy and free: ...

May I recommend 'Old Tom' and 'Chimay'?

The ads look fine at the top - the BIC one is quite colourful! People often join because they want to post about some dilemma they are in with their chooks and shouldn't be put off by paying for a month or even a year for what may, or may not, be a brief visit. Ads will pass as the norm in those sit...

It does seem (and I know nothing about silkies except what I glean from trawling images) that silkie cockerels have 'walnut' comb and wattles so some early pits in them wouldn't seem impossible. I'm hoping Chris is right on this. Mine (various) gape a bit sometimes and on occasion. They do seem to d...

Environmental Health, the Police and everything else in the public sector has been cut to the edge of 'essential' functions. We all know the reasons, some reasonable, essential even, some not so good. We were talking the other day about situations where the Police had to stay out of it until a viole...