This rainy, cool summer has benefited the weed population.
Look at the chicken yard...
it's lined with enormous weeds.
There's a path through the middle just large enough for us to walk...
for feeding, watering and cleaning purposes.
At any given time, there will be at least 10 chickens relaxing in holes beneath these weeds.
The chickens dig holes in the dirt for their dirt baths.
So you see... this is, in essence, a chicken spa!!
One of our little red hens from this summer's batch of chicks is
head over spurs in love with Number 7.
She waits outside his pen each morning for the door to open and Number 7 to emerge.
Then she spends her day following him around... sometimes in the company of a few of her sisters.
He's quite handsome and does a beautiful morning dance to entice her...
not that she needs any encouragement!
One of these mornings I will film all of the drama that ensues when the door
to the chicken house opens.
Number 7 comes running out...
pursued by big white "Fish".
Fish is definitely head honcho in this henhouse and wields that authority
un-mercilessly upon Number 7 every single morning.
The only silver lining is his little red hen who is waiting for him with a sparkle in her eye.
Chicken drama... if you've ever had chickens... you know exactly what I mean!
Yesterday brought us another inch of rain...
no barn renovation work done...
maybe today?
PS.... the donkey grazing muzzles are by Shires....I don't know what website I bought them on, however. The size that I bought for the girls is the pony size. I had to snug it up the whole way to fit, but the muzzle part was big enough for mini-donkey nosies.
Hope that helps.
PS.... the donkey grazing muzzles are by Shires....I don't know what website I bought them on, however. The size that I bought for the girls is the pony size. I had to snug it up the whole way to fit, but the muzzle part was big enough for mini-donkey nosies.
Hope that helps.
Comments
I bet your chickens are extremely healthy, living such a perfectly happy life in a perfect chicken paradise.