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I've been a bit surprised over the past couple of weeks at just how much money seems to be sloshing around post lockdown. I was talking to my postman today and he was telling me his sister is an estate agent and they have sold 35 houses in two weeks!. I like old cars and I tend to watch the...

Via the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/mar/16/eggs-factor-chickens-plucked-from-obscurity-in-new-portrait-book Their kickstarter page is also worth a look. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chicks/book-0?ref=c9zkyu

It must have been for one of the Sussex to push her first egg of the season out. A whopping 100g, I can't close the egg box on it, will be interesting to see if it is a double yolker.

Today I cancelled my dentists appointment on Thursday, why?, because of a bit of snow and cold weather that hasn't even happened yet!. I feel like a right ninny for doing it. The problem for me is that my dentist is 30 miles away down the A41 which ended up being closed with 100 cars stranded...

When I first started out with chickens I was very interested in Australorps, tried to source some, no luck. There I think is the answer to why they aren't more popular, if they aren't available then people don't keep them initially, then the small percentage that then go on to breed don't breed...

Thinking ahead to brighter warmer times I don't know how many people go for breaks in Spring but perhaps this might interest somebody. Landmark trust does self catering lets in historic buildings and uses the funds to save further historic buildings in danger of being lost. The link doesn't show...

https://twitter.com/CrazyGloble/status/953411925269983232 This account has some great little clips on it.

The Count that is, he nearly died today. He had a huge stroke of luck in that he happened to keel over when I was clearing up the run. I saw his beak open, he was gasping and his comb had gone blue, then he just keeled over and started flapping. By the time I picked him up his eyes were shut and...

Was written by a man from Cleethorpes who used to work for Ross frozen foods!, it's my random useless fact for the day :D. If you've ever been to Cleethorpes you will know why it tickles me.

Not Erdogan's boys in blue (thankfully) but a poultry peace keeper instead. Safe space snowflake warning!!, the video contains a very light skirmish between two cocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWIKa1wW_pU

Just got in from spending half an hour out with the chickens, absolutely lovely day, blinding sun and warm enough for me to be in my T-Shirt!. The hawthorns and hazels are still holding their leaves and the only thing to signal that Christmas is only two months away was the first yellow berries...

Me and Mrs D got stuck in London last week after a freight train broke down and blocked our line for hours, rather than hang about the station and then get caught up in the chaos when services first resumed we decided to go and see something. Anyway we ended up opting for 42nd Street as we liked...

Amazing place!. Two hundred individual air conditioned rooms, they treat up to 7000 falcons per year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6kKzkJJhE

Took these photos of one of the Silver Sussex today who is having a nice rapid moult. You don't seem to get many photos of birds when they're moulting or of the feather sheaths so after the question the other day I thought I'd pop some on here.

Over the last few months my lot have carved themselves out a den that spans the entirety of the hedges in the third pic and spend nearly all their time under there now, lazy sods that they are. Come out for food mind you, it's like a chicken ambush when you walk past with some fallen fruit...

Not just good for nuts, I had a cack handed attempt at producing a section of stock proof hedge out of a couple of trees three years ago, despite not making a brilliant job it has come out alright, shows you how fast the stuff grows..

And lots of them from the 19th century to look at here. http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk/poultry1.html I always find it fascinating as it shows which breeds were popular at the time and how much they have changed. I think the first three pages of the Lewis Wright ones is particularly nice...

Has given Wales a miss. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/two-year-old-boy-suffered-13432073

Chickens that is. The Count is two years old, and up to last week he had never perched a day in his life. He would always just bed down on the floor of the coop in the corner, hopefully as far away from his hens bums as possible. He had spraddle leg as a chick and whenever he gets a shift on you...

My apples, plums and grapes are all where I would expect them to be towards the end of August, just goes to show what difference a bit of sun can make. Don't know if that's just me or whether others were seeing the same. Not that I will get to eat many of the apples, the amount that are wormed...