chickens – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:55:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg chickens – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 So @vnemma decided to let the chickies out in the garden. Photo 1, left to right: Scramble, Pancake, and Mrs Chirpy. #chickens???? #chickensofinstagram https://shepline.com/2019/08/20/so-vnemma-decided-to-let-the-chickies-out-in-the-garden-photo-1-left-to-right-scramble-pancake-and-mrs-chirpy-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-chickensofinstagram/ https://shepline.com/2019/08/20/so-vnemma-decided-to-let-the-chickies-out-in-the-garden-photo-1-left-to-right-scramble-pancake-and-mrs-chirpy-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-chickensofinstagram/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:42:38 +0000 http://shepline.com/2019/08/20/so-vnemma-decided-to-let-the-chickies-out-in-the-garden-photo-1-left-to-right-scramble-pancake-and-mrs-chirpy-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-chickensofinstagram/ So @vnemma decided to let the chickies out in the garden. Photo 1, left to right: Scramble, Pancake, and Mrs Chirpy. #chickens???? #chickensofinstagram

So @vnemma decided to let the chickies out in the garden.
Photo 1, left to right: Scramble, Pancake, and Mrs Chirpy.
#chickens???? #chickensofinstagram

]]> https://shepline.com/2019/08/20/so-vnemma-decided-to-let-the-chickies-out-in-the-garden-photo-1-left-to-right-scramble-pancake-and-mrs-chirpy-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-chickensofinstagram/feed/ 0 Down on ye olde farm… #pigs #sandyandblack #goats???? #goatsofinstagram #chickens #creamlegbars #ducks #muscovyduck @cogges https://shepline.com/2019/05/06/down-on-ye-olde-farm-pigs-sandyandblack-goats%f0%9f%90%90-goatsofinstagram-chickens-creamlegbars-ducks-muscovyduck-cogges/ https://shepline.com/2019/05/06/down-on-ye-olde-farm-pigs-sandyandblack-goats%f0%9f%90%90-goatsofinstagram-chickens-creamlegbars-ducks-muscovyduck-cogges/#respond Mon, 06 May 2019 15:13:23 +0000 http://shepline.com/2019/05/06/down-on-ye-olde-farm-pigs-sandyandblack-goats%f0%9f%90%90-goatsofinstagram-chickens-creamlegbars-ducks-muscovyduck-cogges/ Down on ye olde farm... #pigs #sandyandblack #goats???? #goatsofinstagram #chickens #creamlegbars #ducks #muscovyduck @cogges

Down on ye olde farm… #pigs #sandyandblack #goats???? #goatsofinstagram #chickens #creamlegbars #ducks #muscovyduck @cogges

]]> https://shepline.com/2019/05/06/down-on-ye-olde-farm-pigs-sandyandblack-goats%f0%9f%90%90-goatsofinstagram-chickens-creamlegbars-ducks-muscovyduck-cogges/feed/ 0 Meet Nana, the 9 year old hen who thinks she is a goat and lives in a duck house… #hensareforlife #chickens #Nana https://shepline.com/2018/12/13/meet-nana-the-9-year-old-hen-who-thinks-she-is-a-goat-and-lives-in-a-duck-house-hensareforlife-chickens-nana/ https://shepline.com/2018/12/13/meet-nana-the-9-year-old-hen-who-thinks-she-is-a-goat-and-lives-in-a-duck-house-hensareforlife-chickens-nana/#respond Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:24:07 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/12/13/meet-nana-the-9-year-old-hen-who-thinks-she-is-a-goat-and-lives-in-a-duck-house-hensareforlife-chickens-nana/ Meet Nana, the 9 year old hen who thinks she is a goat and lives in a duck house... #hensareforlife #chickens #Nana

Meet Nana, the 9 year old hen who thinks she is a goat and lives in a duck house… #hensareforlife #chickens #Nana

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/12/13/meet-nana-the-9-year-old-hen-who-thinks-she-is-a-goat-and-lives-in-a-duck-house-hensareforlife-chickens-nana/feed/ 0 Today we had to say goodbye to Princess Layer and Meringue. Princess Layer had a prolapsed uterus and Meringue was egg-bound and it was the kindest thing to do for both. RIP our little hens. https://shepline.com/2018/07/04/today-we-had-to-say-goodbye-to-princess-layer-and-meringue-princess-layer-had-a-prolapsed-uterus-and-meringue-was-egg-bound-and-it-was-the-kindest-thing-to-do-for-both-rip-our-little-hens/ https://shepline.com/2018/07/04/today-we-had-to-say-goodbye-to-princess-layer-and-meringue-princess-layer-had-a-prolapsed-uterus-and-meringue-was-egg-bound-and-it-was-the-kindest-thing-to-do-for-both-rip-our-little-hens/#respond Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:03:18 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/07/04/today-we-had-to-say-goodbye-to-princess-layer-and-meringue-princess-layer-had-a-prolapsed-uterus-and-meringue-was-egg-bound-and-it-was-the-kindest-thing-to-do-for-both-rip-our-little-hens/ Today we had to say goodbye to Princess Layer and Meringue. Princess Layer had a prolapsed uterus and Meringue was egg-bound and it was the kindest thing to do for both. RIP our little hens. ????????❤???? #chickens @vnemma

Today we had to say goodbye to Princess Layer and Meringue. Princess Layer had a prolapsed uterus and Meringue was egg-bound and it was the kindest thing to do for both. RIP our little hens. ????????❤???? #chickens @vnemma

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/07/04/today-we-had-to-say-goodbye-to-princess-layer-and-meringue-princess-layer-had-a-prolapsed-uterus-and-meringue-was-egg-bound-and-it-was-the-kindest-thing-to-do-for-both-rip-our-little-hens/feed/ 0 Chickens! Doing what chickens do…! #chickens???? #garden https://shepline.com/2018/01/14/chickens-doing-what-chickens-do-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-garden/ https://shepline.com/2018/01/14/chickens-doing-what-chickens-do-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-garden/#respond Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:38:53 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/01/14/chickens-doing-what-chickens-do-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-garden/ Chickens! Doing what chickens do...! #chickens???? #garden

Chickens! Doing what chickens do…! #chickens???? #garden

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/01/14/chickens-doing-what-chickens-do-chickens%f0%9f%90%94-garden/feed/ 0 Alice, rest in peace https://shepline.com/2017/01/15/alice-rest-in-peace/ https://shepline.com/2017/01/15/alice-rest-in-peace/#respond Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:47:54 +0000 http://shepline.com/?p=12747 Sunday. I woke up leisurely to the steady patter of endless rain outside the window, and plumped up my pillows and finished reading Winter Magic (see my enthusiastic review) before getting up for an even more leisurely breakfast.

We had done all the jobs, including the mucky task of cleaning out the animals yesterday and knew what the weather forecast was going to be for today so were looking forward to a day of hibernation and roast dinners. When I got downstairs and went to put the light on in the garage for our poorly chicken, I found everything strangely quiet. Alice wasn’t on her perch, and I couldn’t find her anywhere. There was however, blood splattered all up the walls and across the ceiling that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a slasher horror flick. It was awful. And no chicken anywhere. I called her name and spoke to her like that was ever going to do any good. Then I found her, jammed down the side of the washing machine and the garage door where she had fallen off her perch, dead after coughing and spluttering blood to death.

Alice had not been well, for the last week and a half and we were treating her in isolation. She did have a weird lump in her throat that was the source of the bleeding and we were probably nearing the time when we would have to put her to sleep, but it was still not a nice thing to come down to in the morning, and then to have to clear up.

Alice was, chicks aside, our youngest chicken and hadn’t laid us our first egg yet. She was a beautiful, good-natured chicken. She will be missed.

Alice, right, with Pancake.

Alice, right, with Pancake.

Alice 2016–2017

]]> https://shepline.com/2017/01/15/alice-rest-in-peace/feed/ 0 The Provenance of the Plate https://shepline.com/2015/12/06/the-provenance-of-the-plate/ https://shepline.com/2015/12/06/the-provenance-of-the-plate/#respond Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:34:10 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=6720