Into the Garden Again

Good morning everyone and what a wonderful day it is.  The sun is shining but not as scorching hot as it has been, I have laid my egg for the day and the plan for today is to help our Mum in the garden.  

We helped in the garden yesterday and we even had lunch on the patio with our Mum.  She put the parasol up so we did not get sunburned and with the lovely breeze as well we had a wonderful time.  The patio is made of granite chippings so we could rootle around in it and find all sorts of interesting things.  I hope she does the same today,  We are all going to help her do the weeding today.  I know she will love that!  Until now we have mainly stayed by the yummy raspberries and near the compost heap.. Olwen loves the compost heap and is getting brilliant at finding worms and grubs.  We also went on The Lawn.  Wow, what an invention the lawn is..

Isolde and Morgan on the lawn

a huge soft grassy place where we can run around and flap our wings and just be free. Linnet and Morgan, our Buff Orpington friends, like to walk up and down it being quite stately and then snooze under the bench near the grape vine hedge where it is lovely and cool.  They sometimes have to share it with Isolde, our friend the cat [she was rescued as well]  and it is a case of who gets there first!

The Pond

The other bit of the garden we like is the pond.  Now please don't get worried about us being near a pond.  we aren't quite that silly as to try swimming and we don't go near the water, but our Mum has a fountain in the pond and sometimes it splashes up on to the rocks all around and we can sit there and get cool.  The rocks are not very good for hens so we don't go near it very much but the odd splash of water in this hot weather has been brilliant.  

Yesterday we noticed that we all now are starting to get feathers showing.  some of us have more than others and Olwen and Brigid are doing quite well.  Poor little Rhiannon has only one or two showing but they will come.  She is still very frightened if she is more than a couple of feet away from me or from our Mum but she is getting better.  She laid two eggs this week that were soft shelled so our Mum has put extra oyster shell in our food

Feathers starting to show.

so she will lay hard shells again soon.  some people use our own shells which have been baked in the oven  and then crushed up.  This way they don't taste like our shells and we won't be tempted to eat our own eggs.  

So, life just gets better and better.  I do hope the hens who are looking for new Forever Homes will find them soon.  We are lucky and very spoiled!  They deserve to be as well.