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Richard: For this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're talking about…
Both: Chickens [both laugh]
Richard: Yes. We have four little chickens.
Jackie: Yes, Richard. But before the chickens, of course, we had to um… to build a hen house, didn't we?
Richard: Yes, a little hen house um… where they live, in two parts.
Jackie: Yes, the house, the actual house, where they… they sleep in the house more, don't they?
Richard: Yes, and then attached to the house is a little um… a little cage.
Jackie: A run.
Richard: A run. A chicken run where they er…
Jackie: Run
Richard: …run around.
Jackie: [laughs] But we're hoping that, when they are a little bit older, they'll be more free-range.
Richard: So they can run outside where they want to.
Jackie: In the fields, yeah.
Richard: Yes
Jackie: Yeah, we got them from a local Saturday market. They're only four weeks old so they’re quite small, aren't they?
Richard: Yes. Very small.
Jackie: Um… they're brown and white um… and they were very expensive.
Richard: Two euros each. [Jackie laughs] That's a bargain hopefully.
Jackie: Now most people think that chickens, they go cluck, right? Cluck, cluck, cluck.
Richard: Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck! That's the older ones.
Jackie: But because these are baby chicks they just go cheep, cheep, cheep all day long.
Richard: All day and often all night. So why have we bought chickens? Well, we want to have fresh eggs in the morning, don't we?
Jackie: For breakfast, yes.
Richard: Yes. But as they're now… they’re only four weeks old, I think we'll be waiting quite some time for our first egg, won't we?
Jackie: Yes, because they don't start laying the eggs until they’re 16 weeks old so if my maths is correct we have to wait another three months?
Richard: Three months. Probably. It's um… September now, October, so in the New Year. Also they don't lay eggs in the winter, so we'll have to wait until springtime, I think, until we have our first egg. But I must admit - I can't wait! [both laugh]
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