https://backlanehens.com/Four years of keeping six hens in a back garden in Sheffield: building the coop twice, red mite, winter laying and light, a fox at the fence, and a tally of feed against eggs actually collected.enhttps://backlanehens.com/journal/four-in-the-morning-and-two-new-hens/https://backlanehens.com/journal/four-in-the-morning-and-two-new-hens/A fox got into the run in October 2025. What it found, what I changed in the fortnight after, and how badly the two replacement birds were received.Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://backlanehens.com/journal/short-days-and-the-tally-sheet/https://backlanehens.com/journal/short-days-and-the-tally-sheet/Winter laying in a north-facing Sheffield garden, three years of egg counts on the shed door, and the feed ledger set against what actually came in.Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://backlanehens.com/journal/red-mite-in-the-third-summer/https://backlanehens.com/journal/red-mite-in-the-third-summer/Birds refusing to go in at dusk, grey dust in the perch sockets, and six weeks of treating the woodwork rather than the hens.Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://backlanehens.com/journal/the-coop-i-built-wrong/https://backlanehens.com/journal/the-coop-i-built-wrong/Two weekends of plywood in March 2021, eighteen months of cleaning it on my knees, and the second-hand shed that fixed most of it.Sun, 14 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT