There is a new bargain store that has just opened next door to one of the supermarkets that I use regularly. I decided to take a look and found quite a few items at bargain prices. They also had seventy litre bags of potting compost selling at three for ten pounds. I decided to get three to help keep the soil level topped up in the chicken run.
It was a mission getting them up the garden path on my trolley, one at a time, between my husband and myself.
Emerald is the first to investigate as the first bag is emptied into the run
Emerald, Peaches and Butterscotch scratch in the compost and it is soon spread around
I caught Butterscotch mid shake
Butterscotch often does this sudden shake that seems to almost knock her off her feet.
Three girls snoozing together
I think all the scratching must have worn them out as these three girls, Toffee, Butterscotch and Speckles were stood together dozing.
Speckles has a spectacular comb
Finally I couldn’t resist this close up of Speckles. She is such a beautiful girl and she has the most amazing comb and wattles. She would do a cockerel proud. For such a little girl that is a big comb and she lays the biggest eggs too.
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They are certainly enjoying the composs, Your Speckels is
a lovely looking girl.
They have been loving the compost. They were scratching in it before bedtime and again this morning. Speckles is lovely. She is tiny with tiny little feet and a huge comb. She is so friendly too after her very shy start.
Ah, the efforts we go through to keep our hens happy.
You are so right. We were lugging bags of compost up our path which has several steps in it during hail showers. Madness but the girls love scratching in something new.
My Speckles has an abnormally large comb as well, though not as big as yours!
Looking back on old photos, her comb is a bit bigger in size than our rooster’s when we got them!
Wow, that is amazing, I was right then that her comb is more like a rooster’s. She is definitely a hen though as she lays lovely large eggs for a bantam. She makes me laugh because she has the tiniest feet and body size of all my girls but the largest comb and eggs. She is a little star.