Self Sufficientish

Regular readers of this journal (you really need to get out more !! ;-) )will know that in an effort to be become more self-sufficientish, we have now have 5 chickens.

They are quite amusing. I do not mean that that crack jokes or juggle, but observing them is an interesting way to waste a few hours.

Taking pictures of then is a nightmare. They seem to know when you are going to depress the shutter and can duck and weave like Mohamed Ali.

As well as big personalities, they have BIG feet. They stomp over everything, and can dig like a Cornishman - spraying mud/gravel/chippings/compost everywhere.

Like a teenage boy, they are perpetually on the hunt/scrounge for food.

This evening at dinner, Jacca remarked how he was famished, because he had not had anything since lunch! Betty the chicken would wholeheartedly agree with him.