Receta Farm Life: My chickens are all grown up

My chickens started laying eggs at the start of this month. I had a proud mum moment because my girls have turned a corner in their life. With the guinea fowl gone a couple of weeks ago – to new homes not to the freezer. My chooks have relaxed as that god-awful noise has finally stopped. The girls now come up to us in the afternoons with no fear and my favourite one Mr Mohawk will even let you pick her up. She is really talkative too, they all are. It’s like they are filling the void of silence since the guineas left. At least you can’t hear it from ten meters away.

My girls have been laying in their egg boxes Roy put up for them. We have encouraged them to lay there over the past couple of weeks. Soon I will be able to go down in…