Where does the time go, half way through the year already. I can't believe that the nights will be starting to draw in soon. We've been so busy at work recently that I haven't had time to blog much. I don't like working shifts, twelve hours a day is no fun and leaves no time in the evening to do anything except feed the chooks, eat tea and go to bed. Still, no work today but the weather is a bit dull at the moment so I'm not sure which way it will go yet though its looking like it may be leaning towards rain.
The garden is doing well at the moment, the chooks sweet corn is growing well and the courgettes are now taking form.
Radish, beetroot and dwarf runner beans
Chard, carrots, shallots and lettuce. 
The Wyandotte chicks are starting to feather up at last, I'm not sure what sex they are yet though. I'm thinking from the space for their comb and the shape of the wing that maybe I have one pullet and four cocks although I'm hoping that I am wrong and that there is no more than one cock as I can't really keep more than one. They were enjoying having dust bath yesterday.
The other chicks are are now seven weeks old and are growing nicely, I think that I may be lucky and have four pullets but I am not 100% certain on one of them as the feathers are neither rounded or pointy but fingers crossed it will be a pullet. They were moved yesterday to a larger run as they were rapidly outgrowing the eglu I use as a broody pen and seem to have settled in nicely, although one jumped through the electric fence within about five minutes but we managed to get here back in.
