Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Nature rules the roost

The neighbour arrived one evening as it was growing dark, with a black chicken in a box and eight eggs.

“I found her in my bushes sitting on these eggs and she won’t last long with my dogs, so I thought you might like to put her in your hen house.”

We took her gratefully and popped her in our nursery, which is a fenced-off area in the hen house

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