{"id":8793,"date":"2014-07-28T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2014-07-28T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:59:11","slug":"some-top-soil-for-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8793","title":{"rendered":"Some top soil for the run"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend we had my eldest son, Steve and his lovely bride to be in three weeks time, to stay for part of the weekend.<\/p>\n

It was the first time they had seen the newest girls, Toffee and Emerald, and Peaches and Barley as they live in Cambridge and with wedding plans on the go haven’t had time to come down recently. It was also the first time they had seen the run since it’s been extended.<\/p>\n

They said that my photos don’t do it justice and the newest girls were all more attractive than the photos show and the run is bigger and more interesting than the photos show.<\/p>\n

That’s probably because it’s impossible to photograph the whole run with my, quite basic, camera and lack of skills.<\/p>\n

Steve did say that I should leave the roof panels open when it rains as the run had got very dry during the hot weather and that I should also probably add some top soil. With constant poop picking the level of the soil had gone down quite a bit.<\/p>\n

I took this on board and decided to leave the roof panels open last night when usually I would close them overnight.<\/p>\n

We woke up at five o’clock to an almighty storm with crashes of thunder and heavy rain. At six o’clock I couldn’t hold back any longer and went out to close the panels. There was a lot of water.<\/p>\n

The thunder and rain continued for three and a half hours. I have never known thunder go on so long but we are in a valley so we think the storm was trapped.<\/p>\n

However as it is so hot at the moment that the run had dried out again by lunch time. On my way home before lunch I called in at a garden centre and they had five and a half litre bags of topsoil on offer at three bags for twelve pounds so I decided to buy them.<\/p>\n

I tried lifting them and soon realised that I couldn’t manage. I got someone at the garden centre to put them in my van for me.<\/p>\n

Back home my husband and I managed between us to get them on the sack truck and pull them one at a time to the top of the garden.<\/p>\n

We got them into the run and emptied them. No wonder they were so heavy as the first bag of soil was damp but the next two were really wet.<\/p>\n

I was going to spread the soil but my husband said we should leave it in heaps and let the girls have the fun of spreading it.<\/p>\n

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Some top soil for the run<\/p><\/div>\n

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The girls scratch around in it<\/p><\/div>\n

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It is soon spread out<\/p><\/div>\n

I think it was probably a bit disappointing as there were no bugs in it so we dug up the soil and wood chip that has been scratched outside of the run and dumped that on top of the top soil.<\/p>\n

This gave out to a frenzy of happy scratching and pecking and soon all the soil had been levelled for us. This also means the surface is damp for now which should be good for scratching in and help keep it cooler.<\/p>\n

I think the girls appreciated it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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