C&T Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 ... is a definite challenge! Not least because we spent so much time laughing at their antics, we didn't get an awful lot done! Step 1: Pick up Spade to dig hole for new (chicken proof ) plant Step 2: Ginger comes running over, with Fred in hot pusuit Step 3: Put spade in ground Step 4: Chickens start jumping up and down with excitement Step 5: Lift spade up, complete with earth and Ginger on top Step 6: CAREFULLY lower earth and Ginger onto ground, while Ginger eats all worms can find in the dug up earth Step 7: Try again to put spade in hole have started to dig, only to find Fred already in there - eating worms Step 6: Ginger in eagerness to find ALL the worms in the waste pile, flings all the earth back into the hole on top of Fred Step 7: Start all over again... Wouldn't be without them!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkor Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 OH wants to know what I am grinning at Went through the same thing yeserday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tara Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 ... is a definite challenge! Not least because we spent so much time laughing at their antics, we didn't get an awful lot done! Step 1: Pick up Spade to dig hole for new (chicken proof ) plant Step 2: Ginger comes running over, with Fred in hot pusuit Step 3: Put spade in ground Step 4: Chickens start jumping up and down with excitement Step 5: Lift spade up, complete with earth and Ginger on top Step 6: CAREFULLY lower earth and Ginger onto ground, while Ginger eats all worms can find in the dug up earth Step 7: Try again to put spade in hole have started to dig, only to find Fred already in there - eating worms Step 6: Ginger in eagerness to find ALL the worms in the waste pile, flings all the earth back into the hole on top of Fred Step 7: Start all over again... Wouldn't be without them!!! So so true unjet funny we had the same thing yesterday when we was leveling out the garden but there were 8 all running in all directions with worms in there mouths.I could not watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electricbarbarella Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 we had the same here this weekend, I was moving the stepping stone path into a better positon, which meant a total of 12 holes and an awful lots of bugs, I also found a piece of old wood buried that was coovered in woodlice, they went mad for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*mummy_hen* Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hehe!!! They are so funny! They keep us enteratined that is for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 My 3 chooks are certainly more hindrance than a help when I'm lobbing the compost across the garden - just because they were in one spot when I pick up the heavy forkful doesn't mean they are still there when I turn to fling it off across the garden! They look very miffed when wearing a liberal sprinkling of compost I'm so glad the Battie & Orpies can get out there yet, I'd never get anything done Sha x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Watch Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Same here. My lot go into a frenzy just at the sight of the spade/fork coming out of the shed. Who says chickens are stupid eh.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
