Yesterday my husband visited the allotment. One of the other people at the allotment gave him some broccoli stalks that had gone to seed for our girls.
My husband had also bought some turf. They were on offer at five for twenty pounds. The plan is to replace the pallet pathways with turf as the wood gets very slippery when wet and also needs lifting to weed underneath. There was one turf over so the girls got that too.
It’s a bit of an overload with greens at the moment but I thought that as free range chickens on a farm have an entire field to graze it should be okay.
Salmon was first to investigate the broccoli
Speckles joins her
Another three girls join in
Speckles is first to try the turf
Ebony, Cinnamon and Jasmine join her
Vanilla tries the grass
This while Flame was in the shed and Vanilla was blocked out. Vanilla will go to the turf or the perches at the end of the run but as soon as I go through the gate she is straight back to the shed pop hole just in case she can get in.
I think it is going to take some time for Vanilla to come out of this.
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Lots of nice treats for the girls.
They especially love the turf.
It won;t last long,as they really do love it. I have 4 pices down at the moment and keep covering one with last year’s Christmas tree, which prompts new growth fter a couple of days, but it’s rapidly shorn again.
They are loving the turf. Covering it is a good idea but as I have just one I will let them keep at it. The plan is to turf the allotment inside the netted bit as well so I think I will get more spare bits from that. I love seeing them on the turf.