There are fresh eggs at Easter: Four chickens live in the garden of a Wolfratshausen family

Four chickens live in the garden of the Krischke family in Wolfratshausen.

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Wolfratshausen – T-Rex runs about as you would expect from the name.

Her long head snaps forward when she hurries.

T-Rex is one of four chickens that live in Maja and Sarah Krischke's garden.

There, T-Rex sometimes pecks at insects, lays an egg with unexcited regularity, cuddles up to the other three while sleeping and also does other pretty normal chicken things.

The four only get excited when Maja throws a handful of grated cheese - it's Emmentaler - across the lawn.

"The four of them are pretty into it," explains Sarah.

The 17-year-old watches her sister while she is being fed and is amused by the hasty steps of the chickens.

There are fresh eggs at Easter: Four chickens live in the garden of a Wolfratshausen family

Not only cheese is popular in the Krischke garden.

Corn is almost as good for Gusti, Miri, Freya and T-Rex.

The diet of the feathered garden dwellers is remarkably balanced.

On particularly glamorous chicken days, it can also be a shrimp.

"They basically eat anything that's soft," says Sarah.

Usually there's porridge, grains or simply grass.

The four only enjoy the luxury treats on special occasions – such as visiting the local newspaper, for example.

The chickens have been living with the Krischke family for two years.

The family picked up the feathered garden dwellers from a farm near Irschenberg.

There were several families who wanted to take in chickens.

The four moved from Irschenberg to their fenced-off area in the family's large garden.

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Fresh eggs from our own garden: Sarah Krischke gets them from the chicken coop every day.

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It's a walking enclosure: depending on where fresh grass is growing, the family moves the fence - after a short time the grass on the other side of the fence is much greener.

"They destroy grass pretty quickly," says Maja.

Sometimes faster than their owners can keep up with.

The resourceful birds flap over the waist-high fence when they find a small elevation in their enclosure from which they jump.

"They like to escape," says Sarah.

Then she, her sister or her parents move out to transport the little runaways back to their enclosure.

At best, before they can attack the beds in the garden.

The family dog ​​and the cats have now made friends with the four feathered family members.

"It's going quite harmoniously," says Ulrike Krischke.

Sometimes the four even share their oatmeal with a squirrel.

It's different with corn and cheese.

When Sarah and Maja bring these delicacies into the garden, there is no time for guests to feed, because the four chickens are so quick to eat their favorite food.

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The four chickens spend Easter like any other day.

They peck a little, walk cooing through the garden and do chicken things.

For the Krischke family there are boiled and painted eggs from their own garden.

And probably for the neighbors too, because the four hens lay more eggs than the family of four can eat.

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The fresh eggs - they are smaller than in the supermarket - are the reward for the care that the two young women invest in their hens.

They regularly change the straw in which the four lay their eggs.

Under the poles, on which the animals prefer to cavort in their aviary, they wipe away their legacies.

In addition, the hens want to be fed regularly.

On good days with corn, cheese or shrimp.

"Actually, they are pretty easy to care for," says Maja.

There the four of them are behind their fence again, cooing comfortably to themselves.

“Gaa, ga, gaaaa, ga, gack!” says Miri.

The animals are not loud.

Only when they have just laid an egg, "then they really scream," explains Maja.

The 19-year-old is happy that she is not woken up every day by the noise in the morning.

"We don't have a rooster.

The neighbors probably wouldn't want that either.” But everyone gets along with the peacefully cackling chickens – and with the eggs that they get every now and then anyway.

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