Omlet

Next... we became glued to the omlet site.. www.omlet.co.uk like strange anorak people... there's nothing we dont know about them!! Plus I discovered the forum!! Man you can't get me away from that.....

Now we needed to decide what colour, there are 7!!! Also what length run for how many chooks? What do they eat? How do they live? Omlet knows everything..... or the thousands of fellow Omletteres always know the answer.....

So after doing many rudimentary calculations we strolled up our small garden and decided there were 2 possible places, both of which were under my neighbours window!!!!

However, since a large tree was in the way on one side the veggie patch and compost area were on borrowed time.......

Then the deed was done! A green eglu, extension and 3 chooks all being delivered on the 29th july!!!!

Looking about

Well................. It was a very dubious place, I can tell you, a well rounded man complete with braces, bald patch and accompanying fag perched precariously on his whiskered chin explains that we can have as many as we like in a teenytiny badly built bedsit for chooks.... best we don't have the cute black ones, nasty eggs apparently.... so we should have the brown ones, which were in a stable with 30 others.... free range? Not!!!!

So we smiled nicely while a very strange couple in dirty Mercedes came and quickly left with 2 peacocks in a small box.... they were housed next to the Llamas!!!

We hastily made our retreat and hot footed it back to the laptop!

Research

So there we were, laptop on lap and warming our knees.... where should we begin?

We started by chance with the local paper, POL chickens for sale!!! Means about to lay eggs apparently...... so we phoned them up and arranged a look about!

Next was the search for appropriate chick mansions, and there are many to choose from, let me tell you, single storey, multi storey, nesting boxes in or outside, mostly made of wood and costing a small fortune........

So of course the next port of call is ebay! How do we ever manage to live without it? I wonderful invention, much information, but not much help.... Much google searching later we came across an 'eglu' from Omlet! What a revelation! The page was book marked tootsuit and off we toddled to the local chick place......

The beginning!

It was a normal weekend here, bit rainy, bit sunny, we had been talking about getting a tortoise!!! There we were wandering around pets at home like complete saddos buying 'dog rocks' to try and stop Coops from killing the grass with EVERY early morning pee!!!

It appears there is not much info on tortoises out there, certainly nothing in the petshop. Lots of lovely bunnies though.....

While out walking the lovely coops, discussing the pros and cons of tortoise keeping there was a very quite 'bok' coming from the fence on the corner! 'Have they got chickens' ? We wondered????

Silence for the next week or so, and then while soliciting by his fence one day the man was in his garden.... 'do you have a chicken in there'? We asked..... 'Actually we have 6!!!' Blimey.... in we went for a look about, and there in the corner were 6 hens wandering about having a whale of a time!!! After much chin wagging we came away with a notion and 6 marvellous home grown eggs!!!!

It was easy to see how much better they were than good ole tesco's free range efforts.

Soooooooo the extensive research began!!!