Having kept chickens for the best part of ten years now , we always ended up buying eggs at this time of year, except for this year , our lot just have not stopped laying , yesterday we picked up a couple of dozen and we even have a couple of ex battery hens going broody, even our Toulouse Geese are mating . the wild ducks are all paired up , daffs are in bloom and the snowdrops are all out. so the light at the end of the tunnel may not be an oncoming train....or some rotten sod has set fire to the tunnel...