Of course the girls are only getting out into the garden at weekends now, when we are about. We are still being plagued by cats and not happy leaving the bantams out and unattended.
As you can see they really enjoy trashing the garden and I am actually wondering if anything will grow at all next year as they are doing a great job at digging everything up!
We decided to have a bit of a mid autumn clear out so moved the pen, scrubbed the deck down, added all new wood chips and removed the horrid ramp up to the night shelter and made a branch ladder in the style used by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to replace it. It looks much nicer, makes the pen seem larger and the old ramp got very dirty.
Super Ruby was the first to try it out - no problem
And to prove how easy and stylish you can look on your new designer ladder she showed the girls how to get down as well.
Chicken's eye view - the girls are looking suspiciously at the photographer here but all loving the new bark chips.
I love this photo - its so funny, they look so guilty! Chickens caught by paparazzi :)
Didn't take them long however to get back outside and start helping me move leaves!I thought that Lottie would have been problematic about going up to the night shelter but it was Margot in the end that was having a small trauma but only took her a minute to decide she was going in after the other two Sussex went in.
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