Well, we've had them for a while now.. yep... 16 days.

They're great, but we have had to spend some money on the extra little things, like plastic sealable tubs for the food pellets, and making sure our pressure hose was working properly to shift the "fertiliser" off the walking areas.

Thy've settled in now too. We can just open the Eglu door in the moing and let them alone til dusk. They then naturally want to go huddle up in the sleeping area and they keep quiet too.

A word of warning to anyone thinking about getting some... they seem to wander around aimlessly, eating anything and with their rear orifice seemingly permanently open. Yep... there's s**t everywhere.

What grass we had is slowly turning into marsh land, though I reckon we could probably grow anything we wanted in the soil this summer.

We don't let this put a dampener on things though. The eggs are lovely, and all our neighbors so far have been over the moon with the sample eggs we've given them.

We've had a letter of thanks addressed to us AND the chickens from one neighbor; and another has bropped some newspaper clippings about chickens round to us. Two of them have already offered to look after them if we go away too!

An omlet tonight I think!