Yesterday we helped Will & the girls to collect their three ex-battery chickens from a collection point near Denmead. Although not strictly gardening, in the horticultural sense, it does seem a very good use of a garden to give these chickens a happy, but still productive, retirement. Their life to this point has been an indoors existence regulated by timed lighting and egg collections.
Hopefully they will settle in and be contended in their new environment.
This was the collection point; a stable unit the rehousing group used for the day.
Hopefully they will settle in and be contended in their new environment.
This was the collection point; a stable unit the rehousing group used for the day.
They had a pedicure before being put in the box we'd provided.
Will & Esmé with their chickens
Back home and Esmé & Maggie check them out
A series of photos showing them being taken carefully out of the box and introduced to their new home.
Next morning they had produced two eggs; quite a surprise after only one day.
All three wandering about the garden; I hope Will has clipped their flight wings!
