And then there were two .....

Hookery in the chookery is safe.

A few weeks back I had to announce that hookery was having to do without some chooks due to the presence and voracious appetite of Mr Fox.

Well, towards the end of last week a new chicken adopted us!  She sat outside our chicken run and looked longingly at our chicken.  They clucked quite cheerily at each other from across the wire .....

No-one knows where she has come from and after 3 or 4 days roaming around my garden .....

.... she finally ventured into the (specially left open) chicken run.

She moved into the coop on Sunday afternoon for a look-see and must have liked it because on Monday she had moved in lock, stock and feathers and had laid her first egg for us.  It was white.  None of our other chickens laid white eggs so this is mighty unusual for us and you see white eggs so infrequently in the shops these days.

Perhaps it will become hookery without the chookery?

It is with deep regret that I post this message to you ....  Unfortunately this morning while we were out, Monsieur Renard came into our garden, dug his way into the chicken run and kidnapped not one, but two, of our chickens seen here only a few weeks ago.  The third chicken has been attacked and has lost a few feathers but is, for the most part, OK.