My husband swept up the leaves from the garden and put them in a bin sack for the girls. A few days ago we tipped them in a heap in the run.
A pile of leaves
The girls soon gathered round the leaves and started to scratch in them. They were having a great time and I don’t know what they find in those leaves but they didn’t even bother with the apple I put in that afternoon. They spent all day scratching in the leaves and the next day they went straight back to them. By the next day they had scattered them over the entire run.
The leaves are now scattered
The leaves have kept the girls occupied for days.
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All those lovely bugs and grubs 🙂 The other good thing in the end they rot down and with the poo you can put them back on the veg patch as compost .
The girls have been scratching in them for three days now. I will gather them up soon for compost, it does it make it more tricky to poop pick but they have so much fun with them.