Just a ramble

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Hi all,
Well, spring is just around the corner! The sisters are doing well, looking forward to the sun getting above the fence and having a sunbathe no doubt.
I took the front off the roosting box as it was too small anyway and they now perch on the edge of the 'roosting shelf' looking down on the run as they seem to prefer (with the run door closed, of course.)
Got through so many layers pellets. I'm sure the dog doesn't eat that much. They pretend not to like pellets but the bags steadily disappear!
Something else that's disappeared is a good quantity of potting compost out of the pots in the garden, and dust bath seems to be a delicacy too.
They didn't have time to moult last year before winter arrived. I'm looking forward to it finally happening as there starting to look a bit mucky. Still shiny but wouldn't pass the Daz challenge!
The big, light brown eggs keep on coming with only the odd day when there's 2 instead of 3. Anyway, time to get off the train.
 
Interesting to know that some people on trains are not making big finance, saving the world, texting lover/husband /wife, just giving info. on their beloved girlies and their welfare!
 
There all sitting in the sun and fanning out their feathers :) Wish I hadn't clipped their pinions last year or done it more artistically. Oh well - live and learn.
 
Hi Rick, just another ramble,
I have never clipped wing feathers ever, simply because it spoils a hen's beauty. Hope they grow back. I have never lost a hen either because it flew away. They know when they are well off, loved, fed and watered. They simply want their mates and their territory.
The other day in the sun one of my Pekins flew up on to the top of the fence, had a look around and came down on the better, correct side, hers!!
 
I'm sure they'll get new ones when they finally moult. My neighbor is always saying it OK if they fly over the fence but I think he might be less keen after seeing the devastation that 3 hens can cause in an afternoon!
 
Yes - before we got our chickens we went to all sorts of lengths to "chickenproof' the fencing, which actually resulted in making it even less secure due to our rubbish fence-building skills, but they never, ever, go past the boundary. They could quite easily go into the field next door or out of the drive onto the road, but they seem very happy within their own territory which somehow they they have worked out for themselves. Amazing!
 
Wow! But that fits, they have got up onto the fence several times but never gone down on the other side
I presumed that it was because I'd caught them at it but maybe not. Mind you, they ate all of the grapes along the top.
 
Glamorous fences you go in for, I just have a few pigeon droppings along the top of mine and the odd twig or two from a neighbour's overhanging tree.
 
Elmdene
What breeds do you keep? I think chickens are amazing creatures, very intelligent and home orientated, otherwise places like the chicken roundabout would not exist, what did bother me, reading a bit about it, was how on earth do they get enough water?
 
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