The veggie garden is through the gate in the bottom right hand of the photo - yes hens do eat veggies and also scratch up seeds - they are lethal in the garden! They are not cost-effective as the food is expensive, but they eat scraps too and the eggs are wonderful - deep golden yolks as they eat in the fields all day. We give the eggs to various friends as presents so we are very popular in the egg laying season.
I am a widow for the second time - first marrriage 39 years, second marriage 23 years - both very happy. My second marriage was to a farmer and when he died the farm was sold. I now live in the nearby small town on the edge of Wensleydale in The Yorkshire Dales. My beloved Border Terrier died a couple of years ago - I still miss her but as I am 90 and need carers I shalln't get another I have one son,who lives nearby with his wife, three grandchildren, one step grandchild, two great grandchildren and two step great grandchildren..Life is good.
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We were considering getting some chickens. Don't they eat the vegetables or do you keep them separate from them?
The veggie garden is through the gate in the bottom right hand of the photo - yes hens do eat veggies and also scratch up seeds - they are lethal in the garden! They are not cost-effective as the food is expensive, but they eat scraps too and the eggs are wonderful - deep golden yolks as they eat in the fields all day. We give the eggs to various friends as presents so we are very popular in the egg laying season.
The photographs are charming; they reawaken all my romantic notions about living on a farm okay - but it's got to be better than town life!
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