The Adventures of Super-Cheep, the House Chicken

Well, a quick break from India now...back to life in Perth.

Preparations are now well underway for the keenly-anticipated arrival of Rachel, Adrian and little Max from Melbourne on Friday at around noon.

Shanks has been very busy this week working in the yard, tidying up and fixing his car. He has had with him a little helper, that doesn't leave his side even for a second...Super-Cheep, the House Chicken, left to itself after its mother and three siblings were gobbled up by a fox a couple of weeks ago. Now, well and truly imprinted on its new mother, wherever Shanks goes, it follows...take a look at these!!

Shanks hard at work fixing his car this morning!

Trying to surf the net is a bit hard these days!

Though reading the paper is a little bit easier...

OK...now that's just too much!

Aaah...mother chook and baby chook!

Eighteen days to go...

While we are overseas having a great time, we will be leaving behind our 24 children...well, children of sorts...



We are the proud parents of 7 Welsh Harlequin ducks, 2 Pilgrim geese, 11 hens (5 Isa Browns, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Pekin bantams, a Minorca and an Australorp), 1 gorgeous Rhode Island Red rooster called Roger and 3 newly hatched chicks called Chocolate (pictured right), Vanilla and Honeycomb.








We are lucky enough to have had one of our friends offer to look after the family for us while we're away....I just hope he knows people who like eggs (because he'll be getting a full dozen every day!).