See You on the Other Side

I was over in Chicken World to clean out the henhouse yesterday and to check things over as I do most days, when I noticed how pretty everything was looking so I decided to take some photos, but from different angles to the more usual ones you get to see.

So many times I have shared the view of Chicken World as seen from the house, so this is the chickens views of their world and back at our house.

The inner fence was put into place shortly after we moved in, when there was a warning about a fox spotted in the area, but in the almost seven years we have been here we have never had a problem with foxes.  The inner sanctum did come in handy when Avian Flu hit this country and all birds had to go into lockdown and undercover.  We simply draped the whole area in tarpaulins and nets to keep the wild birds out and it worked a treat. 

Now they are free and we are in lockdown!!

Although the fence has stayed in place, the gate on the other side is permanently wedged open and they have the run of a huge area.

Looking back towards the house and the hills in the distance.  The hedge on the right separates us from the main road, a slightly quieter road at the moment thank goodness.

This is the view if I turn right around, and shows the homemade laid fencing separating our land from our neighbours.  The big tree on the righthand side of the photo is the last one on our land.  The rest of the V shaped wooded area is Mary's and backs onto her big field.

Looking over that fence you can see the lovely wooded area that the chickens forage in every day.  Here's one of the girls coming down the hill to see what I'm up to!

It's hard to make out in the photos but it is currently carpeted in Bluebells, it's looking so pretty and yet so rustically simple.

I turned back around after taking this photo ...

... and headed towards the Chicken Shed.

The shed where we store the food bins, chicken supplies and bedding etc.

With a high shelf for their medicines and treatments.

One final photo as I step out of the shed to turn right to go back to the house, and another lovely view of the dappled sunshine ... and Dancer one of the cockerels wondering what on earth I'm doing loitering for so long on his patch.

The large black thing is a feed hopper, not really necessary now that we have only six chickens but they are used to it, as is all the local wildlife so we continue to use it.  The long feed trough that Dancer is stood at was picked up at an old farm sale and is used for their daily treat of corn or leftovers from the house.  

The upside down plant pot is over a ventilation pipe for our septic tank.  Living in the country there is no main sewers so every property has it's own septic tank.  We are lucky in that ours is a soakaway type system which is really easy to manage.  Once it was registered as such we don't need to do anything to it as it's completely self-maintaining.

One final thing Your Maj ... you forget to send me a card, so I didn't send you one either ... and I see you pinched some of my wine!!

 Happy Birthday anyway  👑

Sue xx