14th November 2009

It's been a while since my last blog and time seems to have gone so fast.
The girls(Tillie & Emilia) have been over at half term and what a busy week that was with hatching.We thought that all the Bantams were coming to end of laying so we put all we had in for 1 last hatch and the results were superb with virtually all the Gold Laced Wyandotte's and the Brahma's hatched along with an odd Buff Orp,Lavender Pekin and a couple of Mixed Japs so we need to sell some or we are going to run out of room.
Both the Gold Laced and Brahma's are still laying which is amazing for time of year and the fact that all the runs are now a mud bath so we have started moving a few around for Winter with runs on the Patio and gravel in front of the Barn.The ones we cannot shift will be covered as best we can with a lot of straw on the floor which we will use in the base of the Greenhouse Borders next spring.
We have a big problem with the Sparrows eating the Chickens food so the next job must be trying to make the runs Sparrow Proof(Some Hope)