Spring flowers

I used different tactics today. I decided that I won’t be switching the girls to different sides any more as I feel the new girls have learned all they need to about the other side of the run for now. They haven’t got as far as the chicken shed but that doesn’t matter at the moment.

We have some friends visiting this afternoon and staying for a bite to eat so I decided to give the girls some time together in the morning instead of the afternoon. This time I just closed the little coop and moved the food and water dish to the patio. I then opened the gates but also opened the corners of the wire at the end of the run and at the edge of the patio to allow some extra escape routes.

Once again the bigger girls didn’t take too much notice but Rusty and Freckles went for the new girls. My cute little Rusty has turned into a horror! She is by far the worse culprit. This time Apricot ran away and went straight to the top of the ladder. She has her escape sussed now and then just sits it out.

Poor little Cinnamon came off the worse. All that ruff raising behind the wire was forgotten in an instant. Rusty chased Cinnamon round and round the run at break neck speed. Too fast for any chance of photos.

I decided ten minutes of this was enough and separated the run areas again. The new girls are easy to get back to their part as that’s where they feel safe. I rewarded them with a dish of mash.

As I have no photos of the girls today I thought I would take one of some spring flowers in the garden.

Spring flowers

The garden is now bursting with patches of spring colour.

I now realise that adding seramas to the bigger girls is the easy part. The bigger girls give them a token peck in passing to show them their place and the little girls accept this. It’s the same size girls that are the problem. Rusty is determined that she is going to be top serama girl and is brutal at showing them this.

This is going take some time.