Peaches and Barley have a clever trick

We noticed this trick some time ago and I wanted to get a photo of the girls in action to do a post about it but have never managed to have my camera with me at the right time so I thought I would just post it anyway.

We have two stations for water and for a while I wondered why the galvanised water container was always dirty in the drinking part while the china water bowl always remained fairly clean.

This water bowl stays pretty much clean

The trough part of this is often dirty

Then we noticed that the reason for this was because Peaches and Barley would be scratching in it and flicking the water out. That also explained why it was often wet around the base. We thought they were just being silly.

Then we realised that they were rolling the spilt pellets into the wet patch and making their own mash.

The feed bowl is next to the water container

If there were no spilt pellets they would scratch some out of the food bowl then roll them into the wet patch to soften and then eat them. Now that is a clever trick! I wonder how they learned that. They love mash and now they can make their own. It’s only these two girls that we have ever seen do this.

If I ever catch them at it when I have my camera I will take photos and do another post. They are a smart pair of girls.