Me and Harry went to Banff to get our 6 ISA Warren chickens and we gave them food and water and we let them get used to there surroundings. We gave them a ramp to give them easy access to get into and out of the coop. We cleaned out the cage.

Painting Community Chicken Coop

Matt and Emma and Ian were away to go and paint our designs on our chicken coop so we went from Banff day services to the bank to get some money out so we can buy our paint brushes and some red paint. We went down to Banff castle and got the key to open the gate and then we got our boilersuits on and we started to paint the coop and we had to sort out the mistakes that some people had made. There are designs on three sides of the chicken coop and the next time we are going to sort out the mistakes and finish of the painting.

Chicken Coop

We in the community chicken group have ordered the materials for our chicken coop for our 6 I.S.A Warren chickens at Banff Castle. The coop is 6 by 4 size and it is waterproof, so it will protect our chickens from getting wet and they will have nest boxes for the chickens to lay eggs in them and will have an window so the chickens will know if it is night or day, so they will know when to sleep or wake up. When we get our chicken coop we will get to paint it what ever colour we want. We will like to paint it orange colour for the coop.

A transition Initiative (which could, village, university or island etc) is a community-ledresponse to the pressure of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction. There are thousands of initiatives around the world starting their journey to answer this crucial question for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly rebuild resilience (to mitigate the effects of peak oil and economic contraction) and drastically reduce carbon emissions( to mitigate the effects of climate change)?"

I.S.A Warrens

The I.S.A warrens, the chicken we are getting is a French breed of chicken. They can lay 300 medium size eggs per hen per year. Their are an hybrid chicken, an cross between Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island White chickens. The chicken was first introduced in 1978 in France. The I.S.A warrens can also sometimes be called by other names like browns, hylines, gold lines and lohhmans.  It is an very fairly tame chicken and is very friendly and you do not have to clip it's wings because it does not fly and so it will not escape.

Welcome to Banff community chickens

My name is Matthew Taylor and I'am working at Banff Castle looking after Chickens for the community. This will be a joint project with the Scouts, Banff day services and transition towns to look after the Chickens. We are hopefully getting the people from the groups to train and look after the Community Chickens.