The Summer Of Love

It’s over! Winter has gone and bird flu restrictions are eased. The girls are loving it….

- Jo Barlow

Well, the winter just gone has been a pretty rubbish time to be a chicken keeper, a really rubbish time to be a hen and an equally rubbish time to be someone who writes about hens. Part of the remit of this column was writing about my girls as part of our family and, quite frankly, these past few months, it feels like my family has been torn apart. The girls have been at the far end of the garden, away from the house and away from me and I have missed that all-important interaction with them. I have missed them shouting at me through the patio doors, demanding to be let in, I have missed fighting to get out of the back door with five naughty ex-bats, six rescue hens and a very small but determined Dut