..., when we have the photos of our moulting hens. Poor old Shakira can't shake a tail feather as she no longer has any. I missed taking a photo of her lonely single feather and now have a tonne of photos on the camera of her little porcupine like patches of skin with the quills rapidly growing. Now Buck Bucky has started to moult but in a completely different way and she has bare patches in random places. I'm making sure they both have good food to keep their strength up whilst they change their outfits. They still get told off if I find them chancing onto the veg patch though. Some places are still out of bounds - just a shame they don't know it.
A huge noise alerted me to about forty geese flying over the neighbouring field and though I had the wrong lens on the camera I have a row of dots in a grey sky to upload.
We've been staying in and working on the computers all weekend so finally this afternoon, to stop me going google-eyed I nipped along to the local garden centre and bought some red onion sets for over wintering onions. I planted 45 of them (5 were too tiny and mouldy looking) around the edge of the plot, 1 inch (2.5cms) deep and five inches apart. Let's hope the birds don't tweak them out.
I also started to plant the spring bulbs but the ground was too wet to unplug the soil from my bulb planter so I have decided to wait till the soil has dried out as this week is meant to be much warmer and drier. I've just looked out to see a mass of tumbling feathers as Buck Bucky shakes herself. Shakira, with no tail feathers and a fluffy mass of down around her nether regions makes her look like she is wearing Victorian knickerbockers. Oh the shame! Having shooed them from the delectable carrot tops and waved Buck Bucky off the pak choic leaves which means she is the secret snacker of those young leaves they are now surreptitiously going for the lower raspberries. What chancers. It's ridiculous how much we love those hens!
A huge noise alerted me to about forty geese flying over the neighbouring field and though I had the wrong lens on the camera I have a row of dots in a grey sky to upload.
We've been staying in and working on the computers all weekend so finally this afternoon, to stop me going google-eyed I nipped along to the local garden centre and bought some red onion sets for over wintering onions. I planted 45 of them (5 were too tiny and mouldy looking) around the edge of the plot, 1 inch (2.5cms) deep and five inches apart. Let's hope the birds don't tweak them out.
I also started to plant the spring bulbs but the ground was too wet to unplug the soil from my bulb planter so I have decided to wait till the soil has dried out as this week is meant to be much warmer and drier. I've just looked out to see a mass of tumbling feathers as Buck Bucky shakes herself. Shakira, with no tail feathers and a fluffy mass of down around her nether regions makes her look like she is wearing Victorian knickerbockers. Oh the shame! Having shooed them from the delectable carrot tops and waved Buck Bucky off the pak choic leaves which means she is the secret snacker of those young leaves they are now surreptitiously going for the lower raspberries. What chancers. It's ridiculous how much we love those hens!
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