We acquired some chickens back in February and they've been doing really well.

They spent a good long time indoors, but we were keen to get them outside quickly. At first it was because we wanted them to be able to roam the garden, explore, rummage through plants and stuff. Quickly, however, another reason to get them out surfaced.

They stink.

Okay, they don't stink stink, but their droppings smell pretty bad occasionally and it catches you by surprise. You'll just get a waft of chicken feces up your nose suddenly and wonder why they're in the livingroom. And that's even when cleaning them out at least once a day.

Anyway, they're outside, they're happy, we have them set up in a very nice coop with a large run, and let them out of it whenever we're home.

It's spring, so of course we've started to get the garden ready for planting food and flowers. The three chickens have, however, taken it upon themselves to claim a ceramic plant pot as their own. They wriggle themselves into it and kick up the soil and have a dirt bath, sometimes falling asleep. At least, until one decides it's not quite comfortable enough and wriggles, setting off a chain reaction of flapping, kicking dirt and b'kahk! until they eventually settle in again. It's pretty amusing.

We think they'll start laying eggs sometime in June. Until then we're working on getting the garden set up for planting, which I'll post about soon.