All 3 chickens stopped laying today

[ChrisP]

At a museum (possibly an Arts one) in Glasgow in September 2005. Thought it was a fantastic idea, never even considered keeping chickens as pets, despite living almost next to a farm!

 

It got to November before mum brought up the subjects of chickens, and got them by christmas that year! Then after a year decided that the three bought from omlet were simply not enough, and had to buy another one from a poultry farm nearby, aged only 3 weeks - spent a couple of months living indoors so that she wasn't too cold, and eating special food compared to the others

 

Would never look back now though, it would make days at home boring if there were no chickens in the back - and occasionally into the front, and next door, and next door again

 

Chris xx

[MedusA]

I'd been talking about having chickens for ages, then my OH bought me the book "Keeping Pet Chickens" 2 Christmasses (sp?) ago. As it's jointly written by Omlet's very own Johannes, it features the eglu. I had that Eureka moment and knew I had found the answer to my prayers.

[Omletina Kyckling]

I saw them at the Gardener's World Show at the NEC last June and liked them. My neighbour thought they were great.

 

Then in September, hubby bought an old tractor as a toy (reckons I'm going to do the weekly shop on it) and I said "if you're having a tractor, I'm having chickens" - he thought I was kidding....the next night the neighbours were around, we had quite a bit of red wine and the next thing I can remember was seeing a red eglu and three chickens in my shopping basket and pressing "order".....

 

I blame the wine....