Keeping Chickens Newsletter

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Shirley Rae : Many thanks for the latest newsletter. As usual it was entertaining and informative and I always look forward to receiving it. Since I last wrote to you, we have had many things happening to our flock. One of our "posh" girls - Violet Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) was run over by a car on the lane bordering our land. Poor thing was quite badly injured, her wing was dangling and she could not stand on one of her legs. We expected her to die overnight and kept her in the house in a quiet dark warm box. We were overjoyed to find her alive early next day. She could not walk but for three weeks we nursed her, carried her in and out and, gradually, she recovered. At first she had a bad limp but now, four months down the line, you can hardly tell she has been injured!

On New Year's day we were visited by a fox. He took our much-loved boy Sheridan. We were devastated and, the next day, he took Violet's sister Hyacinth. We kept the others in the coops for a week and then heard that a fox had been killed on the roads nearby. So, we gingerly let our girls (the Bouquets) and the Dingles (our ex-battery hens) out again and, thank goodness, they have been OK.

This week we went to collect our new rooster! He is a handsome Orpington cross and we have named him Gorgeous George. He has settled in well. He is six months old and seems to like his new harem very much!!!

I have enclosed a couple of photos - hope you like them. One photo is of George and the other is of George with some of his wives (the little black chubby girl is Violet who had the accident). Keep up the good work with the newsletter.

Kind regards Shirley, Wales

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