When we first moved to our large lifestyle block, we had the typical dreams of owning a menagerie of animals, sheep, a pig, a cow or two and if we farmed for a living and had some experience, we may have gone down this route but with us both having full time jobs we neither had the time or skill to do it justice. Through no choice of our own we had already dipped our big toe in the farm animal waters with the four hens (one red shaver and three bantams), that came with the house courtesy of the previous owner who left them behind. The hens were locked…