Well, my eldest daughter came home with three lovely hens, a little white one, a brown one with beautiful eyes and a great big fat one! They settled in pretty quick.

I had told a neighbour about the two missing hens and she said she would keep an eye out for them, but I had lost hope.

Anyway, it was getting dark and suddenly a brown hen came racing past me straight to the chicken house! My neighbour said it had followed her down the road!

So, they were'nt stolen afterall, but had probably got scared and ran off.

We are still missing one hen which we think is probably hiding in some hay bales in the field next door.

I started off with three hens, then one, now I've got five, possibly six tomorrow!