Since I am just a person of 1, I do not have much food waste, and the chickens thereby suffer a monotonous diet. Don’t get me wrong, they have a self-feeder full of barley and laying pellets at all times, but you can imagine how dull that diet would become. And you know how they say “happy chook = tasty eggs” (i’m sure someone said it once). So I’ve decided to risk their very lives by letting them out of the pen to roam as the like around the paddock during the day. They seem very wary, and rightly so, I say. There are a few neighbourhood canines that would enjoy a bit of chook for dinner.

I might just add that one of the chooks accidentally bumped its head on the electric fence… I heard the arc. I’m surprised the 8000volts didn’t blow it up!