chickens
If you can find a local-ish supplier, you should be able to buy chickens about 3 or 4 weeks old. These are old enough to not need their mother, and as they are growing up together, in-fighting generally isnt an issue.

I dont know how big your run is, but I wouldnt go over about 5 or 6 birds, as things start to get messier/smellier/noisier as the numbers increase.


I liked chickens, so I started an organic chicken farm. I currently have about 600 birds and I now fucking hate chickens.
(dave likes cheese, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 15:38, 1 reply)

You know what...
that's probably the best chicken advice I have ever been told (i.e. get some young ones in).

The amount of shit I have been told about chickens is unbelievable, e.g. squirt a bully hen with water...WTF? It did nothing other than make the little bastard madder.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 15:46, closed)

have you never heard the phrase
madder than a wet hen?

but there should be footage of you chasing a bully chicken around to squirt it with water. that would make me laugh a Lot.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 15:50, closed)

Ha! "Madder than a wet hen"
I imagine footage of myself chasing Charlie around the garden when she doesnt want to go back in her chicken-run would be just as funny. I'll see what I can do :D
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 16:04, closed)

yes please
i would happily pay to watch this
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 16:40, closed)