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<\/a>The veg plot is ready for planting<\/p><\/div>\n
While digging the veg plot my husband gave the girls any worms he found so they had a good time. I then dug over the girl’s run which not only turned up a few more worms but they just love scratching and pecking in the freshly turned soil.<\/p>\n
<\/a>I have dug over the run for the girls<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>They love to scratch<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>And peck<\/p><\/div>\n
Dotty has learned a new trick. The girls have stripped the hypericum of all the leaves they can reach. They would jump up and grab what they could so the level without green went from neck stretching level to jumping up level.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The bottom half of the hypericum has been stripped<\/p><\/div>\n
Dotty has now found a new way to reach more leaves. Dotty is the only one of the big girls that can jump from the ground to my shoulder and she does this every morning when I walk through the gate. Pepper and Bluebell are too heavy for this big a jump and jump on my back or shoulder if I stoop or bend down.<\/p>\n
Dotty has now found that if she jumps up into the hypericum bush and then bounces up and down on a branch, she can snap it off. Once on the ground the girls rush over to strip the leaves.<\/p>\n
I worry she might hurt herself and it’s not exactly doing the bush much good either. I wouldn’t mind but I give the girls greens every day.<\/p>\n
She has bought down a few of the bigger but dead branches and every morning when I go in there are stripped twigs on the ground so I know she has been at it again. Who says chickens are stupid!<\/p>\n
Today Amber is completely back to normal after her soft shelled egg yesterday. I am going to continue to give crushed egg shell every morning in their mash or treats until Amber is laying normally again.<\/p>\n
The one thing that gives me hope is that last summer she also laid two soft shelled eggs then normal for a while then another soft shell then normal from then on. I hope this pattern is just repeating and now that she has once again laid two soft shelled eggs then normal then another soft shelled egg that she will now continue to lay normally. I won’t know until her next egg but I am really hoping that this may pass now as it did before.<\/p>\n
The girls have all enjoyed the sun and the extra worms today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today was a lovely sunny day and very warm for March. My husband dug over the veg plot and dug in the girls matured manure. He then netted half of it to keep the cats off but only had enough … Continue reading