A lovely new chicken house ;0)

Our lovely new chicken house arrived late yesterday afternoon, from P&T Poultry, it holds 16 - 22 hens. I have 22 hens but 4 of them are cockerels and they are going to be 'sorted' this afternoon, so we'll be down to just 18, some bantams & some large fowl.
I'm not the most patient person in the world, so I decided to try and put it together there and then. Surprisingly enough a couple of hours later I nearly had it all put together, but it was starting to get dark and cold and the girls were hungry so I had to call it a day.This morning I just had to fix the roof down and put the hinges on the nesting boxes, screw the ramp together......add loads of fresh shavings and it was all finished!
Hens have already started showing an interest, as soon as I went in to make a cuppa I saw a few walking up the ramp having a little peck about and going in. Hope they like their new home, they've had to put up with a small leaky shed since we moved here. So new accommodation is long over due.


LUSH!!

Our Muscovy duck - Peanut!

Today has been such a beautiful day, the sun has been warm & out all day and it's been about 2 degrees, which has been lovely.

We decided to get Peanut, the only Muscovy duck to hatch in my incubator a while back, out of the conservatory (!) and into the little chicken house in the garden at last. Unfortunately it was completely buried under ten tonne of snow, but that wasn't a problem, Marc dug it out and cleaned out the inside of the house as well. I Couldn't resist taking a photo of such a nice view!

Peanut is now a very happy duck, with grassy snow under her webbed feet and sunshine on her back, she even said hello to George our golden Lab through the chicken wire. Happy days........

Finally managed to get a nice farmer to come and plough our track today for £25. So I have managed to get out and take my poor Springer spaniel, Bramble to the vet. She had bitten a couple of stitches out Wednesday night from her chest and it was starting to look infected. Someone had thrown barbed wire over a fence into the woods and she had caught herself on it a couple of weeks ago, when we were out walking, ripping the skin open. I can't understand how someone can just throw something so dangerous into an area people walk in without worrying that it's going hurt someone or something. Barbed wire is evil stuff.

The sun has been out today, a beautiful day, after what seems like endless dark clouds and blizzards......although temperature was only about -2 the sunshine makes us all feel so much happier :0)