When the Heard family first took delivery of six chooks, having them as indoor pets wasn’t part of their thinking. However, “the girls” – as Gregor, Kate and their three sons call them – had other ideas.
To anyone running through the names of the Robertson-Morton family’s feathered friends, their owners’ affection for the flock is clear. “There’s Blackie, Cheeky, Nicey, Cutie, Stripey, Medium and Lady Gaga,”
I first became interested in chickens when my Nan bought some wyandottes and sussex. I would spend a lot of time helping her in the pens and that’s when she let me have a pen of my own so I chose to have pekin bantams.