My Mum and I visited our friend Lorriane for lunch today - which was nice.
On the way home we went food shopping in Morrison's and I found a box of dried meal worms - not for me I hasten to add!
According to the Ex Battery Hens Forum hens go crazy for them so I thought I give them a try. They haven't shown much interest in the other suggested treats - spaghetti with olive oil, mashed potato, sweetcorn or grapes - so far.
I put them into a little dish and after some initial suspicion Ginger and Lucy appeared to like quite like them.
Dorothy is very careful about eating things unless she finds it in the dirt so I scattered some for her to find.
They are all becoming much calmer and are obviously getting used to us now and becoming quite curious about what we are doing. Even eating a sandwich and drinking a cup of tea brings a very nosy Ginger quickly over with her neck stretched to it's maximum to see if she can have any!
I got the work bench and angle cutting thingy out to saw some more pieces of wood which I then glued and stapled into place. There are now only a few more pieces of wood to be cut and nailed into place to add extra strength, as I don't want the first strong wind to blow it over, and then it just needs the wire and hinges to be attached and Voila! Hen House Run Extension is Finished!
I will start on an extension for my house next ;-)
According to the Forum you have to be on the look out for odd poop from hens -yellow frothy ones in particular. I've spotted a few but have never seen which hen does it and it's usually been walked through.
My Mum saw Lucy do one today so I took a picture (to post on the forum for advice - I won't subject this blog to poop pice you'll be happy to know!).
I will put the pic on the forum tonight and await advice. I think though that they will tell me to get a sample and send it off to a lab for analysis.
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