Fun digging a hole

[rick]

Had to excavate around a collapsed drain on the garden which was causing a flood. Moral support from chickens standing at the side waiting for me to find worms and scratching the spoil back into the hole

[Marigold]

They obviously thought it was all for their benefit!

[rick]

Why else?! Building site = chicken theme park!

[BabyBantam]

Nothing like digging big holes to keep a chicken happy. Decided that lavender pekins (Nancy now Lily) are inbuilt to dig. Lily has just discovered that there is soil under the 7 inches of woodchip and is digging for Australia

[Marigold]

I was kept happy today by the sight of 4 men + digger, in the snow, removing large overgrown dead conifer hedge at the bottom of the garden. Good view from lounge window, sitting in the warm. Beats looking for worms any day!

[BabyBantam]

Can just imagine all the beaks pressed against the weld mesh watching.......

[Marigold]

Actually they were all holding their beaks because the men were simultaneously burning the hedge and the hen run was downwind. Still, I expect it made things a bit warmer for them.

[valeriebutterley]

My run currently looks as if small bombs have made craters.
Just as it starts to dry out with the cold/dry weather "Whoopee, it's dust bath time again!" I have just 9 small feathered bombs, but it looks as if I have 29.