After having my chooks for a 3 whole days I've received 6 eggs! Meaning that if you go supermarket prices of £1.50 for half a dozen free-range large eggs that one of my chooks has paid for itself already! They're super happy and super chatty at the moment. I could honestly sit there for hours watching and talking to them completely lost in their curiosity and cheeky personalities!
I can't wait to start introducing them to friends and family!
Please help me with some names for the girls!!
V x
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
My Happy Hens
Wow I can't believe it, just checked the hens when we got home to make sure they were ok. I opened up the hen house to see what state it was in to find these two beauties . . . . . my first eggs on our first whole day of having them!
Gosh they were big, weighing in at 69g and 67g putting them in the Large category if they were for supermarkets! So guess whats for tea tonight! We really can't weight to have these for our tea!
A huge thank you and round of applause to our three gorgeous girls!
V x
P.S. They tasted so amazing! Even the texture of the egg white is nicer than shop bought eggs, no white rubbery tasteless egg whites here!
Gosh they were big, weighing in at 69g and 67g putting them in the Large category if they were for supermarkets! So guess whats for tea tonight! We really can't weight to have these for our tea!
A huge thank you and round of applause to our three gorgeous girls!
V x
P.S. They tasted so amazing! Even the texture of the egg white is nicer than shop bought eggs, no white rubbery tasteless egg whites here!
Monday, 28 March 2011
Happy Hens . . . .
Well we picked up our Eglu yesterday which was interesting. Somehow I'm not too sure how we managed to get the whole thing in the back of our Citron C2 what a squeeze it was too but we did it! When we got al the was to the New Forest (which took an hour and a half) to pick the hen house up the woman turned around and said she'd lost the roosting bars but kindly knocked of £20 which was nice of her. When we got home and I tried to put the thing together, it came to light that she'd also forgotten to give us the Grub and Glug (food & water dishes) and the bolts that hold the run to the hen house!! Ahhhh what a nightmare!! So I rushed onto the Omlet web site to buy the roosting bars, Grub & Glugs, a new sun shade and before I know it I'd spent over £50!!
After a fun filled day at work :-/ we went to pick up our hens from the farm. They looked all sorry for themselves because of feather loss but they were feisty little things! When the kind lady put them into the cat box the first one had a good peck at me as I was holding the box! It didn't break the skin but what I can say is ouch!
Here's my girls exploring their new home -
The bravest takes the first steps into the Eglu. Look at her poor bare bum! :-( She'll soon be looking picture perfect.
They started eating and drinking as soon as they got into the run and love Marmite on toast! After sitting with them for a couple of hours it's clear they already have their pecking order sorted! I'll tell you who's who tomorrow. I really need help with names though so if anyone has any ideas.......
I've just shut them in for the night so I hope the sleep tight!
V x
After a fun filled day at work :-/ we went to pick up our hens from the farm. They looked all sorry for themselves because of feather loss but they were feisty little things! When the kind lady put them into the cat box the first one had a good peck at me as I was holding the box! It didn't break the skin but what I can say is ouch!
Here's my girls exploring their new home -
The bravest takes the first steps into the Eglu. Look at her poor bare bum! :-( She'll soon be looking picture perfect.
They started eating and drinking as soon as they got into the run and love Marmite on toast! After sitting with them for a couple of hours it's clear they already have their pecking order sorted! I'll tell you who's who tomorrow. I really need help with names though so if anyone has any ideas.......
I've just shut them in for the night so I hope the sleep tight!
V x
A great Start to the Week!!
Well this morning was weigh in time before I head off to work and the verdict is I lost 3.3 lbs!! I'm really happy with that as this weekend I barley tracked a single thing as we were so busy but hey thats one of those things, I tried to stay on track and obviously didn't do too badly!
I desperately need to blog later about my Eglu so I'll be back to you tonight! :-)
V x
I desperately need to blog later about my Eglu so I'll be back to you tonight! :-)
V x
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Eggtastic Saturday!
Soo after a depressing afternoon hubby and I headed out to the pub. What a good night it was too. An old pub reopened with new owners in town, they now call themselves a "Pub Cafe" with live music every Friday night. The band wasn't half bad and the drinks were good! Saw a few friends in town danced to a few songs and grabbed a kebab on the way home! But best of all was that it was all within my points allowance!
I woke up this morning to a slightly bad head :-\ self inflicted so no sympathy! I also woke to an email from eBay the seller for the Eglu finally contacted me!! Wooo yeah!! I'm collecting it tomorrow morning so today I'm heading for the shops for chicken supplies!! I have to say I'm in a slight predicament as I been offered some ex free-range hens that are Columbian Black Tails 62 weeks old and someone else has offered me some ex free-range hens that are 52 weeks old and asking for less than half the amount of money than the other person. Whats a girl to do??
Anyway back to this morning, I just had the most amazing breakfast check this out -
I have to say it was the most amazing breakfast I've had for a while. We had eggy crumpets made with the most amazing duck eggs, grilled bacon, grilled vine tomatoes and I scrambled the left over egg from the crumpets. It was accompanied by an amazing cup o coffee. It counts in at a whole 12 ProPoints but was worth every one!
V x
I woke up this morning to a slightly bad head :-\ self inflicted so no sympathy! I also woke to an email from eBay the seller for the Eglu finally contacted me!! Wooo yeah!! I'm collecting it tomorrow morning so today I'm heading for the shops for chicken supplies!! I have to say I'm in a slight predicament as I been offered some ex free-range hens that are Columbian Black Tails 62 weeks old and someone else has offered me some ex free-range hens that are 52 weeks old and asking for less than half the amount of money than the other person. Whats a girl to do??
Anyway back to this morning, I just had the most amazing breakfast check this out -
I have to say it was the most amazing breakfast I've had for a while. We had eggy crumpets made with the most amazing duck eggs, grilled bacon, grilled vine tomatoes and I scrambled the left over egg from the crumpets. It was accompanied by an amazing cup o coffee. It counts in at a whole 12 ProPoints but was worth every one!
V x
Friday, 25 March 2011
It's Friday and I'm down in the dumps! :-(
I hate blogging when I'm not happy but today I'm really not despite the fact its Friday! Which is normally enough to get anyone in a good mood let alone the fact the weather today has been soo amazing!
The only thing thats getting me down is the fact that the person that was selling this Eglu on eBay won't answer my emails! eBay gave me the number and still no answer! I really wanted to get some hens this weekend as someone that lives near me is getting a batch of ex free range hens in from a local farmer and has offered some to me! I'm so gutted that it looks like this Eglu's going to fall through! :-(
I'm off to the pub in a couple of hours for some live music but all I want to do is eat everything in sight and feel sorry for the hens I might not be able to get and give a better home to!
V x
The only thing thats getting me down is the fact that the person that was selling this Eglu on eBay won't answer my emails! eBay gave me the number and still no answer! I really wanted to get some hens this weekend as someone that lives near me is getting a batch of ex free range hens in from a local farmer and has offered some to me! I'm so gutted that it looks like this Eglu's going to fall through! :-(
I'm off to the pub in a couple of hours for some live music but all I want to do is eat everything in sight and feel sorry for the hens I might not be able to get and give a better home to!
V x
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Super Ecstatic Wednesday!!
No only is it half way through the week (which is bloody great news!) but most importantly I've just won a chicken coop on eBay!! Meaning that my dream of keeping chickens is one step closer to a reality!! We've got to pick it up on Saturday all being well but this is what it looks like -
This picture is from the eglu web site - www.omlet.co.uk
Its identical to the one I'm getting which is all most new. I'm so excited I can't tell you! We're setting aside next Saturday to go shopping for hen supplies and hopefully some hens! I'll blog this weekend with pictures of my eglu and share the coolness!!
A quick update on the diet front, all is going well for both hubby and myself. We've been out walking every lunch for half an hour and stuck to our diets 100% for the last 3 days and feeling all the better for it!
V x
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