{"id":7133,"date":"2014-03-09T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2014-03-09T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T15:35:54","slug":"no-more-rain-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=7133","title":{"rendered":"No more rain for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that it has been forecast to stay dry for a while I decided to remove the board that had been covering the mud at the end of the chicken run.<\/p>\n

It was a lovely warm sunny day and as soon as I removed the board the girls were straight onto the patch of ground it had covered, pecking, to see what they could turn up.<\/p>\n

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I have removed the board<\/p><\/div>\n

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The girls inspect the new ground<\/p><\/div>\n

Once they had started to lose interest I dug it over for them and turned up some worms. For once each girl actually managed to get a worm, the little girls don’t often get a chance, but today they both grabbed a worm and ran off with it. I went on to dig over the entire run and turned up a few more worms.<\/p>\n

The sun is on this corner of the run every day at the moment so I hope the ground that was under the board will now dry out at last. How lovely it will be to have a dry run again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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