Inside the chicken coop: Calling all chickens

Thursday 15 July 2010

Calling all chickens

'At last! Something great on telly for us to watch!'

'Why? What's on the box? Is it Chicken Run again?'

'No, it's a cool programme about the private life of us chickens! It's on BBC2 at eight o'clock tonight.'

'Oh dear! I'm not sure I like the idea of that! My life and my space is very private thank you very much, I may not choose to share it with the nation!'

'And mine too! I like to take my dust bath in private! Goodness me is nothing sacred?'

'Come on girls, those humans still need to learn a few things about what goes on inside the chicken coop! We are amazing creatures and our ancestors have been around for so much longer they have.'

'Hopefully they will have have done lots of research and read a few good books along the way before they have an idea of what we are about!

6 comments:

klahanie15 July 2010 at 18:46
Oh no, I missed that show. Still, I have to agree that you are amazing creatures and us humans could learn so much from you.
I hope you enjoyed your 'dust bath'. Not that I was looking or anything:-)
Cheerio :-)
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Simon Whaley16 July 2010 at 02:17
Don't worry Chickens, the 'Private Life of Humans' will be showing on the Chicken Channel next week.
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Denise17 July 2010 at 01:24
We saw this!! Although we are amazed that it has taking humans so long to realise how intelligent we are. They can be so slow sometimes...

Mrs Miggins, Mrs Pumphrey and Mrs Slocombe
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Joylene Nowell Butler19 July 2010 at 16:05
What a lovely blog. Found you through Gary. I love chickens! Happy blogging.
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Callie Brady20 July 2010 at 01:12
You have some very smart chickens! Good taste in literature too.
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klahanie24 July 2010 at 16:14
Hi Diane,
Just thought it only right to inform you that I have bestowed an award to you and your chicks.
You may claim your award over at my site.
Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.
With respect, Gary x
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Inside (and out) of the chicken coop

Hello and welcome to my blog. I hope you have fun viewing some of the photos and stories, a lot of them are aimed at the younger generation, but hope will appeal to anyone who loves keeping chickens as pets. I have been keeping chickens for several years now, they really inspire my writing as they are very comical. My original hens inspired me to write my book 'One Hundred Ways For A Chicken To Train Its Human' which was published by Hodder and Stoughton in March 2007. Now this little clan keep me blogging about them.

Apart from my hens, I do write other stuff too, I am trying to get my Novel - Red Kite, Published but it's so difficult without an agent, and trying to find an agent is equally as hard. However I shall not give up - that's the one thing I am certain of. In the meantime I am writing freelance magazine articles and children's stories.

Gentlemen of the River - Phyllis Blakemore

I am very proud to announce that my Mother has just had her book published. ' Gentlemen of the River - The last Coracle men of the Severn Gorge' is a lovely book about the lives of the coracle men who spent most of their lives around the River Severn in Ironbridge. It spans the generations of the Rogers family who had a long history of coracle making. My Mom knew Eusty very well as she grew up in Ironbridge. He was the very last of the coracle men of that time. I lived there for some time too and he was a wonderful character. It was very sad when he died on January 31 2003 as a lot of skill and a huge amount of memories went with him.

The photographs show a glimpse of what life was like in Ironbridge before it was a major tourist attraction and helps to tell the story of an ancient craft which is still going strong with the modern day coracle makers of today.

It is published by Stenlake Publishing Ltd and priced at a very reasonable £7.99.

Barmouth 2009

We recently took my Mom to Barmouth for a weekend break and had hours of fun on the beach by drawing animals in the sand. We had limited time to create our sand art, as the sea was fast on our heels. My Mom really surprised me when she drew a perfect Micky Mouse, which I feel was good enough for any comic of today. Our chickens were not so good, and they were soon to be washed away by the tide, but the memories of that time on a deserted beach as three adults being children again will remain as a lovely end to the summer of 2009.