The chickens arrived yesterday - four to start with, two Black Rock and two White Star, all supposed to be good egg layers. We drove down to the Domestic Fowl Trust on Tuesday and selected a house and some birds, and they rang up yesterday asking if they could deliver that afternoon.
They haven't started to lay yet, but are just about old enough to start in the next week or two, although it'll probably take them a few days to settle down from the traumatic day yesterday of being driven up from Honeybourne.
The two Black Rocks have settled in well and look completely at home already, but the White Stars seem a little less at ease. We put some corn down for them earlier, and three of the birds leaped down and started hoovering it up immediately, but one of the White Stars seemed a little confused by the whole thing - she'd put her head down and poke around at the corn, but couldn't quite get the hang of actually eating the stuff. She seems fine with the pellets, it's just the corn that seems daunting for her. I'm sure she'll get the hang of it eventually.
Assuming they all start laying, it looks like we'll end up with a couple of dozen eggs a week from these four birds, so I think I'm going to have to start digging out all those egg recipes. Lots of omelettes, a baked egg custard or two, and I can feel some more Advocaat coming on...
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