Glad that cold spell is on its way out! Crikey it’s been hard work working outside of late!! 
Just outside Kettering in Northamptonshire
When we moved to Devon I sold off all my brahmas and bought some layers from a local livestock auction and they have just grown from there. mmmmm think they call it chicken maths..... We now have a mix of Legbars, Maran and Old English Game. They all free range over an acre through the winter, sharing the paddock with our 3 sheep and my billy goat, Jakey. The birds will be paired up about February for breeding and am also hoping to raise some meat birds from a cross of the game and marans. We did have ducks and raised 22 for the freezer in our last year of keeping them. I loved them dearly, but they made such a mess of the paddock, so I sold off the breeding adults and bought goose eggs to raise instead. The last 5 of those, proposed for breeding next year, were killed off by a family of foxes just a couple of months ago. The only night they wouldn't go to bed :/ Oh well, another year to get it right.....
. I'm Debs, from north Essex, with 6 wonderful crossbreed chickens as per my introduction post. Also relieved to have had some sun these past two days, although not without the odd April shower.
