Southlands Farm News

Hooray! We have chickens. At last I have the utter joy of going out in the morning to let out " My Girls!" and peek into the nesting boxes and see if there is an egg-Bliss!!!

Rosie and I went on a mission and purchased 4 lovely brown hens ,we did rather like the idea something a little fancier however "Farmer McDonald" only had brown hens in so that was that. I must say I have had Bantams, Wyandotte, Bluebells, Blackrock’s etc but our brown hens have proved to be very very friendly.

I was meant to have a hen house for my 40th but time slipped by and now at 42 years old I had to take matters into my own hands. The boys were out and Rosie and I found the old puppy kennel. We reckoned with a bit of TLC it could be a very fine ,if not rather small hen house. We set forth with great enthusiasm... but we soon realized we were getting a bit out of our depth a call to our lovely local joiner was required. Stuart laughed he said "how long have I got to attach the roofing felt, Give it a door and add some legs?” Rosie then declared we were off to Haydon bridge to Farmer McDonald to collect the hens now " No pressure "then he replied! Stuart was a star and rose to the challenge I had a funny feeling even though we offered to help that he would most probably be happier on his own. We left to get the chickens and Stuart said to call and collect the hen house on our way back.