First chooks arrive

10 08 2005

Our Scots Grey cockerel and one of the hensThe first of our chickens arrived today, four rare breed Scots Greys aged 12 weeks.

We have three hens and a cockerel, who we’re keeping together for the moment but he’ll be moving into a cockerel box at some point.

Depending on how our hatching programme goes, we’ll keep three cockerels from the different lines plus about 18 hens. Read the rest of this entry »