My friend Jackie rang me to tell me that someone had dug some turf out of the allotment and we arranged to go and collect it this morning for our girls. Jackie said one of her friends had also said we could have the last of his sprout stalks for the girls too.
I couldn’t decide which to give the girls first so in the end decided to give them a piece of turf and a sprout stalk.
This caused immediate excitement
Honey stands on the turf
I decided that as Honey was standing on the turf and some of the girls couldn’t get close that I would break it in half to help them get at it.
The girls are loving this
The turf is easier than the sprout stalk so got all the attention at first but when I returned a little later all the grass had gone.
The grass has gone and attention has turned to the sprout stalk
The girls decided that they liked the sprouts too
The girls made short work of the turf but I think the sprout stalk will keep them interested for a few days. I have several more turfs pieces and sprout stalks which I have put in the shed to be given out over the next week or so.
The girls just love anything like this. Thank you Jackie.
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You beat me to it . I will do a post tomorrow.
Glad to be of service.
I will look out for it. Thank you once again from me and the girls.
Don’t they justlove grass especially? We had our front drive extended last week and all of the turf sods went into the hen run. They loved it, and scratch them down to give some very fine top soil for re-cycling elsewhere!
They do just love grass and I am going to leave the remains to them until they scratch it down and it adds to the soil in their run. Their dry area where they dust bath is scratched finer than any soil in the garden. You would think it had been sieved but they still love to scratch in it especially before bedtime.