Welcome to Chicken Nuggets – Life Lessons from My Chickens.
A personal blog based on my morning musing with my ex-commercial hens.
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Avoiding Inertia
This weekend it was finally time to integrate the Valentine girls with the older flock. I had been putting it off for weeks, if I’m honest. Partly because life had been rather heavy recently. We’d had a bereavement in the family and little Sapphy had been very unwell. Sadly, Sapphire died a couple of weeks…
When Others Want What You Have
We regularly have little feathered visitors from next door, and the chickens are beautiful. Proper showstoppers. Bought as pullets at point of lay, they have a wide stretch of meadow to roam and a gorgeous stable to roost and nest in. They are well cared for, well fed, and genuinely want for nothing. Our neighbours…
Safe for Some, Not for All
This chicken nugget is a little different. It was such a beautiful day that I let all the girls out for a long free range. I sat with Sapphy on the grass as she’s not well, but I left the run door open so that the girls could get back in for fresh water and…
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