Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[CannyCat]

Last night I got home from work and let the girls out of the eglu for an hour, as usual. I went to the fridge to find the half corn-on-the-cob for a treat, but couldn't - "oh, well" I thought, and cut the other one in half and gave them that instead. It only ocurred to me once they'd devoured it, that my OH had obviously given them the half I couldn't find that morning, before he left for work the chooks have totally overdosed on sweetcorn and now have seriously runny poo!!

 

So I vowed that today they would have no treats - just pellets. I went out to the eglu and opened the door, and the poor chooks stuck their head out and clucked wildly - it was raining! They ran to the door in the hopes that I would let them out to shelter under bushes and look for snails and worms, but I couldn't because I had to go to work, so back in the eglu they went! They clucked and clucked for treats, but I was strong!

 

So this morning I left two miserable, eglu-bound chickens, with the runs and no treats! I feel like such a bad chicken-mama!

 

(I'm going to get some clear PVC to make a run-cover - my local hardware store sells it for £2.75 per metre )

[The Dogmother]

That'll do the trick cannycat - I thought this morning that I ought to get my clear cover out of the shed - it was monsoon-ing here!

[buffie]

They'll get you , clients yesterday were met by Harrie and Charlie nearly pinning them to the gate for food

 

BBx

[The Dogmother]

Don't you feed the girls then Buff?

[CannyCat]

 

I dashed to the hardware store in my lunch break - the world and its mother has been out buying clear pvc apparently, because I got the last 2 metres! Got home and let the girls out for 20 minutes before I had to leave for work again.

 

I use grapes to get the girls back into the run, but Molly is a real gannet - she literally downs the grapes whole, just so she can eat them all before Millie gets one! I'm concerned that a) she'll choke! and b) poor Millie - who pecks her food before she eats it, like a good girl - never gets any.

 

Any suggestions?