I have been in the habit of spending time with the chickens after our evening meal which we have at seven o’clock. This was giving me half an hour with them before they go in to bed, however that has reduced to a quarter of an hour and last night even less. This meant Pepper would not come to my lap as she likes to go in to bed first and last night it all felt very rushed. I realize it’s summers end and the nights are drawing in, so I will have to alter my routine. If we want to get a photo of Pepper and Dotty on my lap we need to go out earlier and I can see that soon my time with them will before our evening meal instead of after. We have friends coming to dinner tonight, so it will have to wait a while but here some photos of last night.
Three girls up high!
Treacle takes her usual place on my shoulder and Dotty joins Bluebell on the roof of the coop. They seem obsessed with the roof at bedtime! Pepper is already making her way in to the coop.
Bluebell on my head
Bluebell wanted to join Treacle but couldn’t get on my shoulder as well so chose my head instead. This is not something that I want to allow but thought the photo too funny not to include.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
One of my chickens used to try and sit on my head. The worst thing is that when I tried to get her off, there was a lot of flapping and then I ended up with chicken poo on my t-shirt.
Nice!
Bluebell just launched herself back to the ground. I am amazed that I have not been pooped on yet. We were both surprised when the other night while Treacle was sat on my lap, she jumped down, pooped, then jumped up again. Clever girl, thank’s for that.