David

[Redwing]

 

(Shame, she did look lovely on the fresh green grass .)

 

I can hear a waver in your voice. Don't do it

 

The garden looks great, very different and much bigger somehow

[Ain't Nobody Here]

HG has gone . But look at my garden . The girls even have some leftover turf in their run area! (He's coming back next week to fit an outside tap so all is not lost .)

 

 

 

Tony's starting building my run on Monday so it won't be long .

[mostin]

It all looks gorgeous , well done. Don't let those girlies scratch on your new grass, no matter how many appealing looks they give you .

[Falkor]

WOW ANH! It looks great!

 

Love that he left you the spare turf for the girls. And what is this that HG wife won`t let him have chooks!? I thought it was meant to be the other way round.

 

Remember the chooks are going to pull all their cutest faces out of the bag to try and get you to let them out onto the grass! Be strong! Well at least until it has time to root.

 

I wish my garden looked like that! OH has just reported that 2nd wood delivery has arrived so with that, the slabs piled up, the cube standing in the middle of the lawn, the eglu moved to the other side of the garden and the WIR area being dug up as we speak I have a building site!

[Seagazer]

Its all getting so exciting isn't it. I'm going to start on the greenhouse next week and take photos to remember how it all was.

 

I'm not sure if something has happened to our fox as I haven't seen him for about a week and there was an animal samaritan van parked outside my neighbour's house across the road. She loved the fox, so perhaps his gammy leg has caused him problems. I know I shouldn't care but I wouldn't like to think of him injured.

 

I'll still not let my defences down of the girls though. They are only getting out for a little bit every day now. Roll on 1st week of April

[Vanessa]

ANH - I like your new turf. Maybe I should get my garden turfed as well once the chocks have their new cube and WIR. Maybe with the same HG!!!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Thank you . I'd like to say hands off him but you're too close and could easily get him .

[Cooks]

@ ANH

 

my grass is looking sorry for intself with this weather.

[Janty]

I'm all excited again now. Tony e-mailed me photos of a run he built today that is similar to ours but half the depth.

 

 

 

It looks great. trouble is...it's got me thinking about the whole concrete base issue.

 

[Cooks]

my concrete base is lovely! I almost love it as much as Norman!

[Janty]

How do you find cleaning it out?

 

Do the girls still enjoy scratching about as much if they haven't got soil?

[Cooks]

it sweeps up with a yard broom. Easy as anything!

 

I throw stuff in the aubiose for them to scratch in, like grit and meal worms etc... but mine come out every day to scratch my garden to pieces anyway..

[Janty]

Te idea is that mine would be in the run totally during the week and come out at weekends. I want them to enjoy scratching about whilst they are in the run...that's why I am in two minds.

 

[Cooks]

mine still scratch around, they have plenty of aubiose in there. It would be different if you were letting them stand directly on cemet, but with the aubiose in a thick layer I dont feel it makes much difference to them, mine flick the auibiose around finding grit and meal worms and sweetcorn if they are having treats.. they love it..

[Janty]

Thanks

 

[Cooks]

your welcome

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Wow, Janty, that run is huge . I was speaking to Tony today and he said he was on his way home from building a run - must've been that one . (He's being so obliging - my garden level has been raised so that the run is too high for the garage fascia but he's sorting it out by sending extra timber to fit into the gap so it still fits .)

[Falkor]

Wow Janty, that will be an IMPRESSIVE run

[Olly]

crikey Janty are you moving into commercial flock size!! That run looks HUGE and you say it's half the depth of yours?

 

I'm

[hillfamily]

Wow that's going to be a big run Janty :D

 

I'm getting all excited about my WIR .......can't wait for it arrive.......just got to find things to do to make the time pass quickly

[Chickvic]

If my run was that big Janty it would take up nearly all the garden!

[Janty]

I just want to give them enough room so that when they are in their throughout the week they have enough room. I feel guilt pangs all day when I have to leave them in the cube runs.

 

 

I want to achieve a balance between having a nice garden and keeping the girls content.

The run will sit across the width of the garden, leaving a path down the side for getting the cubes in and out. The path will also serve as a way through to the polytunnel and fruit cage, etc.

[Janty]

Wow that's going to be a big run Janty :D

 

I'm getting all excited about my WIR .......can't wait for it arrive.......just got to find things to do to make the time pass quickly

 

You try waiting until May.

 

[hillfamily]

Wow that's going to be a big run Janty :D

 

I'm getting all excited about my WIR .......can't wait for it arrive.......just got to find things to do to make the time pass quickly

 

You try waiting until May.

 

 

It'll be worth the wait Janty .......although there's no way I could wait that long ........ i'm not very good at waiting when I've ordered something

[Chickvic]

It will be fabulous Janty! I can't wait to see the pics, it will be hen heaven!