What Hens Love to Do! What they Live for!

[Brian]

Some of my girls free ranging. They discovered the pile of oak leaves. Jackpot!

 

[mmajw]

That is great!!

 

[Meesh]

Good grief. That's a serious leaf pile!

 

[Portia]

That's precious, love it!

My girls favorite spot in the yard is the woods where there is oodles of leaf litter from the beeches & oaks. The other day I couldn't find them until I looked under the blackberry bramble at the edge of the woods and found them all nestled in comfortably.

 

[SpottedCrow]

That's so neat...
I used to lose Penny in the leaf piles because she was the same colour...I'd call her and her little head would pop up like a periscope.

 

[Tutter]

And I'll bet they found lots of snacks under there, too!

Portia, do you have snakes there? We have to be careful of the hens going into the blackberries here, because rattlesnakes are likely to be there.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

I wonder if i have defective chickens they never go near leave piles. I already know i have one crazy roster i hope my hens are not the same

 

[Guitartists]

They sure look happy rootin around for bugs

 

[CarriBrown]

Look at all of those girls!!

Cute video!

 

[Portia]

Tutter,
I've not seen any snakes in the wooded, or any portion of our yard. I'm sure there may be some out in the woods, although I walk it daily & have yet to see any. In fact, I'm sure if there were any they'd be gone from disturbance b/c my dog rustles through the brambles often to bury her bone; she likes to rotate her stock on a regular basis, guess it marinates better that way