Season's Greetings

[Margaid]

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. ? ???

 

[Icemaiden]

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. ? ???

Hi Margaid. We've been missing you!

Happy Christmas wishes to you from the Kent Downs. Looking forward to seeing more of your posts in the coming months ?

 

[Hen-Gen]

Best wishes everyone. Mr Quackers is thawed. But in a moment of premature senility I forgot the custard.

 

[bigyetiman]

Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year to you all

 

[Icemaiden]

Best wishes everyone. Mr Quackers is thawed. But in a moment of premature senility I forgot the custard.

Duck with custard? A new tradition perhaps? I forgot the orange juice, so we had to have neat champers this morning...

 

[Icemaiden]

Mum was planning on writing to wish you all a very happy Christmas. But she's just dropped her phone in the run, so we've snaffled it. So a very happy Christmas to you all, free from snow or frozen drinkers.

Lots of love, Repecka, Margot, Nibbles & Harriet (the ex-batts).

P.S. Mum doesn't know yet, but we've been Christmas shopping & bought her a bar of Aldi chocolate each with the egg money that we'd saved up. We've got Dad a jumper too, as he's terribly short of feathers!

 

[bigyetiman]

Been quite a nice Christmas for us, warm, and scratching about is revealing quite a few festive treats. Although as I write this, the wind is increasing, so time for us to retreat to the warmth of the coop

Lots of peelings coming our way as well, although sprout leaves can be somewhat antisocial in the coop at night, but we are getting a great variety of peelings which is rather enjoyable, you can have too much in the way of greens.

 

[Icemaiden]

Mum got a food processor for Christmas. we believe it can be used to make cauliflower and broccoli stems into bite size chunks more quickly? We struggle with sprouts, as co-ordinating your claws & beak can be tricky. Perhaps they can go into a food processor too? Mum says that Hollandaise sauce is lovely with sprouts, but we're not allowed it because it's not vegan. Good job she didn't see Margot devour a slug this morning... Mind you slugs are vegan surely. They only eat plants...

 

[bigyetiman]

Our humum puts lots of things in the food processor thingy for us, makes life so much easier for us busy girls. Slugs, very tasty once you have got your beak around the strange slimy sticky stuff they come covered with, but definitely vegan as we have seen them eating lettuce, flowers, cabbage.

Our human has been gardening all morning, it's been a veritable smorgasbord out here. Although we keep being told "to mind the fork". Their job to watch out for our feet near the fork, after all, if we keep an eye on it, all sorts of goodies get to scuttle away. Must say worms are perfectly designed for hens to eat, you can get three of them down in the time it takes to grab a scuttling beetle, or a disturbed moth

 

[Icemaiden]

Repecka told Mum she could put slugs in the food processor. She didn't look very keen on the idea- not sure why??

My comb's a bit dry & flaky. What do you hens out there use to moisturise?

 

[Hen-Gen]

Free ranging? Not been out for a month. Endless gales and driving rain. At least we have a decent sized shed to scratch around in. Our human tut tuts about us Pullets laying no eggs. You’ve gotta be joking. We’ll start around St Valentine’s Day when our mothers do. And have you seen our multi racial cockerels? A mottled Orpington and an Exchequer Leghorn. Look like someone had the dye running on a hot wash. I suppose on the first dry day the bald idiot will be treating us for lice and mites then throwing us outside so we don’t get mixed up with our untreated relatives. That’s a mixed blessing. The indignity of it all.

 

[Icemaiden]

Just as well you're not in lay. From the Shetland weather forecast on Mum's phone, you'd have been laying the same egg three times!!!

 

[bigyetiman]

We have all decided, it's in the big coop for us, endless rain, the lake has gone walkabout and is heading in our direction. Plus the grass is getting to be very squishy and more muddy, and who wants that squelching between their toes.
Then our humum complains about a bit of dirt on the eggs, because we have been outside and nip back in. Just be grateful that we bother to lay in this weather at all.

as for moisturizer for a comb, we would go for a really expensive one. We understand that you can go to the beauty area of a department store, and speak to a specialist, who will look at your skin, and advise accordingly. You know you are worth it, a trip to a beauty consultant. You may even be able to get a pedicure whilst out

 

[Icemaiden]

That sounds like fun. We've never been to a department store- the closest we get is Aldi, when Dad takes us to buy Mum chocolate for Christmas. I don't even know where our nearest department store is. The ones in Ashford are long gone. Faversham hasn't got any. Canterbury perhaps? Maybe there's one there with a beauty consultant who speaks Chicken?

 

[Icemaiden]

BYM: Mum's got some "Lorryall" face cream. Would that work, or do we need Brylcream for a comb-over?

 

[bigyetiman]

Our mum has "Lorryall" also, but for a certain age, supposed to deal with wrinkles, so I guess it would work on combs. She also has some foot cream called CCS which she swears by. Now our feet go through a lot , perhaps we should get that on our feet and ankles. We really fancy sitting with our feet in warm water, gentle massage with cream afterwards.

Our humum went through Faversham yesterday. has some lovely buildings.

We are lucky enough to still have a family run department store in Upminster, and a nice independent card shop also. I do miss the bookshop though which used to have lovely local books, and would always order you a book

 

[Icemaiden]

You can't beat a good bok, can you? There's an independent bok shop in Faversham, though they didn't have anything about turkeys this Christmas. ?