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.
As the days are getting longer, there is change going on in the brain of every chook kept in backyards across the country. Their brains are telling their bodies to restart or ramp up egg production after a slow-down over the coldest period of winter.