It inspired us to turn our garden shed,now our "Beach-Hut",into a chicken shed and I bought five young hens from a local farm,one of which turned out to be a cockerel and had to be taken back.
With the kids now thinking we were running the farm they all wanted after watching Darling Buds,we all mucked in to put up chicken-wire fencing,cleaning out when needed,putting fresh straw in their house and throwing the corn out each morning and keeping them watered.
I'd made a sliding door on their house which would be opened in the mornings,at which point they'd come outside and shut at nights....they'd go inside naturally at sun-set.
However,some weeks passed with no sign of any eggs in return for all this effort and the Wife was pestering me to get rid of this unnecessary expense.So one day I took two eggs form the fridge early one morning,made them look as grubby as they often are when just laid and placed them carefully awaiting the kids finding them when they went on their daily,'til then,fruitless egg hunt.
As planned the kids excitedly ran in with their find as I said to the Wife "There you are.I said they'd lay eventually"......as she took them and washed them under the kitchen tap before replying "Nice try!....but these have got little lions stamped on them!!".......
They did though after a while start producing eggs which fresh from the hens,are the best ever.
Hens are quite easy to look after and unlike ducks which'll lay eggs here there and everywhere,hens will return to their house to lay,so you know where to find the eggs.A hen can,usually,only lay one egg a day and I think the record is something like 364 eggs in one year for one hen and most of ours wouldn't lay every day.
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