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Just been snacking on one so thought I would share how lovely these are. We have been doing them for a good few years now since we came across them in Japan where they cut them in half and use them to top bowls of ramen noodles. All you need is some Kikkoman Teriyaki Sauce and Marinade and some...

The mongrel offspring of the Count are starting to develop their colouring. Ginger is exbatt x, black are araucana and leghorn x, black and white are lt sussex x and the brown and grey are blue orp x. The white one is a bit of a mystery as it is so different it seems to have got a mega shot of...

Unfortunately we lost the little black one to one of the worst prolapses I've ever seen, she was such a sweet little bird too :( . You can see how small they are as birds in the last photo, the big birds are only 12 week old growers!, so if I say there was two inches of intestine outside the...

The tail markings on our Ko Shamo lad Birdogan always remind me of a firebird. Fully grown now more or less. He's nothing like his namesake btw, very kind and attentive to his ladies.

Mother Leghorn has finally got fed up of her chicks and upon being released made a beeline for her old flock and has roosted back in her old house tonight. That has been 9 weeks since she was taken away from the flock so it just goes to show how much chickens do remember and are remembered by...

After a power struggle between our two Ko boys a couple of weeks ago our OEG cockerel,who is probably going to be stuck with the name Gameboy forever now, was forced out of the flock. Undaunted he simply attached himself to the main large fowl flock of 11 birds, strutting around like he owned...

A couple of weeks ago the local WI "Yarn bombed" one of our local market towns. I don't know how many members they have but it must have taken them ages because every lamppost,seat,bin and piece of street furniture on the High Street has a piece of knitting on it, no mean feat when you consider...

Going through my photos I came across these from 3 years ago. It shows Summer our Mechanical clockwork hen settling down for the night in her favourite roost all by herself as was her preference. Loner, serial broody, fighter of cockerels and survivor of a fox bite to the neck. Always contrary...

This is the closest I've come to owning my own Velociraptors yet.

Managed to catch my young OEG cockerel crowing in some photos. He is only 15 weeks old and it has been really interesting to see how big his comb has grown, of course whenever you see this breed exhibited they have been dubbed (which I can't believe is still practised over here) so you never see...

My latest set of chicks, real total utter complete mongrels these ones. All of the are Orloff crossed with a range of Araucana, Lt Sussex, Orpington Bantam x, Exchequer Leghorn x. Done for fun and because I had the room at the time, we'll see how they turn out, from experience these types of...

Well the chicks under the two broodies have finally hatched, not entirely sure how many I will have at the moment but there are at least two live fluffed up chicks hiding under the Leghorn and one under the Sussex. In addition I found what I thought was a dead chick in the corner of the house...

Well not quite, but I think they look quite fetching actually.

The OEG bantams and Ko Shamos are starting to develop their colouring now, they are very friendly confident little birds apart from the confirmed Ko Shamo boy who tends to sulk at the back of the crowd.

This made me smile. Talk about precocious, our 10 week old OEG bantam boy who started crowing last week actually had the temerity to shake himself at one of our broody Silver Sussex who is about a week into sitting on a clutch of eggs and we had taken out for a drink and feed. She was so...

The Count was clearly in the mood for boogying on down this Sunday gone and happily went through his entire repertoire of courtship moves while we watched.

Am I the only person to have noticed the increasing use of this word as a space filler at the start of a sentence It seems to be something that has originated with the so called 'millennials' with one article attributing it's popularity to Mark Zuckerberg but has been taken up by people of all...

What it says in the title.

We have been treating our blue orpington for bumble foot since we got her a month or so ago, (my fault as her feet were filthy and I didn't scrape off the mud to check them properly) every night we spray her with antiseptic and it has been going well with them deflating nicely but she's been...

One of the best things about hatching chicks is seeing how they react to being outside for the first time, the OEG and Ko are in their element out there so much fun to watch.