We are still trying to get a big run built for the chickens. Their current run and hen house are quite big enough for 3 chickens, but we want to be able to use the chickens to help us with working the soil. Its going to be quite a big job as we want the run to actually be in the form of 4 enclosed garden beds that we can open individually when the planting in a bed is finished. So its taking us a while.
We planted green manure in the beds an
yway and we are building the fencing around the beds. The chickens find it quite interesting to hear the work going on, but can’t see much because we’ve got iron sheets around the base of the chook yard to reduce the temptations for the dogs.
We put a piece of wood into the current chicken pen a while ago so we could hang greens off it. Occasionally the biggest of the chickens will fly up onto the beam and have a bit of a look out and tease the dogs. Yesterday I went out to collect eggs and found all three of the chooks sitting on the beam checking out the green manure.
I don’t know what it is about chickens, but I find them very funny. It just broke me up when I saw them and even more so when one of them turned around with its back to us and waggled its tail like a duck.
