Last night we had really heavy rain for the first time since we put the winter cover over the run. I was really pleased to find the run had stayed dry and there was only one spot on the plastic cover that had pooled a little. My husband found another wooden baton in the shed and put it across under the plastic where it had sagged. This pushed the plastic up quite taut and the water ran off. I think this will now be good enough to withstand any heavy rain.
Pepper and Dotty are continuing to moult with handfuls of feathers each morning in the coop and feathers in the dust bath. Pepper has pin feathers coming through on her bottom and Dotty’s head is just about fully feathered again and some pin feathers are coming in on her neck. It is so nice to see feathers on her head again and I really hope she keeps them this time.
My husband needed some parsley and thinking of the girls bought it in a pot so that the girls could have what was left. I dug over the run for the girls then dug the pot into the ground.
The girls get stuck into the parsley
Dotty’s head feathers are regrowing
Just the parsley stems left
About ten minutes later the parsley had all gone. I emptied the pot out for the girls to scratch through. When I went back later the root ball had disappeared leaving just the scattered stems for me to pick up.
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I call that cutting out the middle man ..no need to make parsley sauce.
Seeing them like that ,I have started to collect the autumn leaves which both our girls love .and so in a couple of weeks we can meet and they can have a sack full if you want them.
Thanks Jackie, that would be great. I scooped up the wood chip from outside the run yesterday and dumped it back in for them to scratch through. They love it but it doesn’t last long. As it was wet they managed to find some worms in it, always a bonus!