With all the rotten weather the chickens deserved a treat.  To make them feel better about the wet and cold I did chicken house spring cleaning today.  This involves a fair amount of effort to make sure all the waste is removed and the inside of the chicken house brushed out. You wouldn’t believe how much waste material four chickens would produce! 

Anyway, chicken waste is very important.  It’s perfect for composting and will contribute to the future fertility of the garden when we start to spread our compost later in the year.  That of course requires us to construct out compost bins which I’m ashamed to say are still waiting to be done.  Well a girl has had too many other priorities and would have been done this weekend had the weather not been so awful.

I’m pretty sure that George and the girls appreciated the spring clean.  They were back in their house as soon as I’d left the run making themselves at home on their roost and fighting their way to the best place to make them self comfy for the night.

Some people have suggested that chicken blogging is not quite as cute as basset blogging.  I have to disagree so here’s some chicken blogging from today. If you’re a bit squeemish you should be warned about a photo to come demonstrating the fruits of the chickens digestive labour.

Before

Chickens feeding in the open air

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Back in their clean chook house

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Shuffle up George, their’s plenty of room for all of us!

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