Enjoying the mud

Not me!

Hoppy and Billy-Neil enjoyed sifting through the mud while I refilled their containers with fresh water. Needless to say they quickly made a mud bath.

After three lovely days, the rain has returned over the past two, and the ground is muddier than ever. Our house is allegedly at the top of the North Downs which is of course chalk. So why do we have clay? And you have to dig down quite a few feet before any chalk is found.

Surrounding the muddy chicken field, the grass is growing well, but if I relocated the chucks onto grass it would soon become waterlogged and muddy.

Roll on summer when the grass in their field recovers and returns. If only it would stop raining.