Here's a patch of lawn they've not been on yet...
And here's a patch they have scratched over.
They have done a great job of removing the moss and they seem quite partial to dandelions too - even grubbing up roots. I've reseeded in places but the rest will have to wait until spring. We need to choose which part of the garden to sacrifice as their permanent home. The bare area behind the pond is looking likely! I just need to level it off a bit first.
Mathilda's baldy neck. The feathers are starting to come through. Mathilda lays the biggest eggs - wish I'd photographed the last one! Massive!
Laying - Mathilda: big eggs, nearly every day. Esmerelda: nice shaped eggs, thick shells, nearly every day. Clarabell and Henrietta: one is laying well-formed eggs sporadically and the other lays soft-shelled eggs almost daily but I don't know which is laying which. I'm giving them oyster shell grit and the empty eggshells get washed, baked, ground up and mixed with their feed as a calcium supplement.
Jealous? Moi?
3 comments:
mjward_uk@yahoo.co.uk
Lol, whoops, i tried to post but cut and pasted the wrong thing in!
What i wanted to say was that i could never handle having chickens, although i really want them, as my new grass looks fantastic, and i've seen what they've done to yours! I won't even let anyone walk on it!!
I think you'd need to decide on a part of the garden to sacrifice for them.
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