bbbrrrrrrr..... it is a cold one this morning. my weather box tells me it is -1 outside.

i am putting off the visit to the chickens to unfreeze their water - it will refreeze immediately in this temperature. i'll give it another half hour. i cannot see them up and about yet, which is sensible.

i am going to move their pens today - when it warms up a bit - to give them clean ground. a major task and one i never look forward to. but it has to be done. the recent rain put paid to the last of the grass - it is now a mud bath (a frozen mud bath today)

egg laying is ticking over nicely. for the first time in ages i had eggs to offer at work. they were snapped up straight away by my 'regular' customers who assured me they were suffering from egg deprivation. fibbers - i know they were getting them from tescos.

i am thinking of getting a couple of warren hens again - they are the most reliable layers of all. my fancy bints feel they can pick and choose their moments, warrens feel they haven't woken up unless they've laid! good girls....