Got the boxes ready!
Car juiced up.
Daughter and friends want to come too.
Have the gardener coming as he has chicken keeping experience.
Right...start driving. I thought it would be easy getting there but an hour and a half later we were still driving and getting very lost despite the sat nav. Several panicked calls to Jemima I we had reached.
The birds did not look that bad. Some had feathers missing - mostly tail ones and their necks were mysteriously without any feathers - did the farmers shave them off!
An hour later we were back home and the birds entered their new coop. Food and water were all put out. The children stood and watched. The dogs too! Left the birds to get acquainted with coop but kept coming back anxiously to check on them. As night fell, they looked really lose. So we went in and put them to bed.
God! They felt strange those feathers. Kind of soft yet plasticky. Children were not too sure if they wanted to hold the birds. But the chickens themselves quietly went to bed!
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