Sunday 27 October 2013

Death came a visitin'

Another depressing post about deaths in our small, furry/feathery family.

1 Gerbil, one chick and a quail all died in the space of 12 hours last week.

RIP :(

Tuesday 1 October 2013

To market to market to buy a...

Today was school strike day, so Hubby, Small Boy, Small Girl and I went to the market to 'buy a chick or 2 to go with Dinky and Broody Hen'.

On arriving there were only 4 'chick' lots- a mottled pekin and 3 chicks, 4 legbar chicks, something else, and a box full of little tiny black chicks, going 'cheep, cheep, cheep'.

I was prepared to spend up to £20 for some chicks, but ended up buying the box of black chicks for £6.



Now to try and persuade broody hen that they all belong to her...