A quick update, we took delivery of our chucks this weekend, three lovely brown ladies.The collection and settling in went smoothly. We kept the girls confined to barracks for the first day and then after clipping their wings we let them out to range about on the second. Duke has been great, he has had the odd peck to warn him not to get too close but they are getting used to him more and more as each day goes by.
The veg beds have been netted to keep the little peckers off them, although i did catch Frankie wandering around the young parsnips.
Did I mention the girls names?
Well there is Bella, she is the most confident and has white flecks on her ruff, she is the bird in front in the picture above with Duke sat down. Then there is Babs, she is the nervous one who chases Duke the most and has pale legs compared to the other two (chickens not legs that is !) Then last but not least there is Frankie, she is named after Frankie Knuckles the once famous dj. Frankie has a claw missing on her right foot and it is just a knuckle end....hence Frankie (knuckles).
Anyway enough about the chucks, I ve put a few bits and bobs in the ground now, Rhubard, runner beans, parsnips and a few broad beans.
A few pics of the updated beds.
Even the carrot and Spring onion bed is coming along now.
Thats it for now, the ladies are tucked up in the chuck hutch, hopefully working on making us another trio of eggs, three a day so far bless them.
Ta ta for now.
