The weather has been awful for weeks now. We seem to alternate between cold, frosty days and dull, wet days. It’s frustrating because the run remains damp as on frosty days the roof drips as it warms up and on wet days the rain either blows in or drips in but luckily there is one circular patch of soil that always remains dry.
This has become the dust bathing area. It is so good to see the girls enjoying a lovely dust bath on an otherwise miserable day.
Peaches, Barley and Speckles
Having a lovely dust bath
This is so good
Meanwhile Rusty and Freckles tuck into the food dish
Emerald
Emerald was just wandering around doing her own thing. I took this one of Emerald as otherwise it looked like she was missing. She was just pecking at the shavings and keeping herself to herself.
The girls seem to alternate the days that they dust bath. It is always cheering to see them enjoying dust bathing together.
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They really do love dust bathing. With the current ban, one of my two groups is in a run which, despite tarpaulins on the top, still gets wet – whereas the others have side protection, as well as a solid felted roof. I am letting them out for the last hour of daylight twice a week, so \I can change the bedding and poop-clear the runs and those in the wetter run make a beeline for the dry sand and soil in the othr run, where they really make up for time lost.
If there is a dry patch anywhere they will find it. I would like our run to be drier but at least there is enough dry soil for dust bathing.
On “Down The Lane” they are saying that the ban is continuing until the end of February. There have been outbreaks in several parts of the country now which is not good news.
Lovely to see the girls so chilled out.
They certainly know how to chill!