You can have plants OR you can have chickens. Not both. PICS!

[gryeyes]

I took all these photos today. Somehow or another my cell phone camera flipped to "video" for some of the cutest shots, and I dunno how to get THOSE visible for anybody, but here are a very few of my flock.

Betsy BR, on the back step BEFORE she snuck into the house to snitch a Styrofoam bead. Much mojo, perhaps regrows feathers.

Delilah Delaware decimating my potted orange tree.

Think it would recover even if I saved it, now?

Delilah destroying the root system of that orange tree.

Delilah deep in dust-bathing bliss.

Rhoda RIR caught cleaning out another pot.

Chickens have re-purposed the old bathroom sink I had originally used for day-lilies. Silly me.

If you look in the backgrounds of those photos, you will be able to see various other chickens dust-bathing or just tucked up together enjoying the afternoon sun against the wall of the house.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

I've learned that you have to fence in the garden cuz my chickens seem to get over every fence I put them behind

 

[PepsNick]

Don't I know it, Linda!

 

[Hillary and friend's eggs]

LOL laughed SO hard! My chickens did the same thing, but in the feeder too!

 

[geepy]

LOL, My hubby and I were in one part of the garden working and listening to my young turkeys just chattering up a storm, not knowing they were eating all the cabbage and collard plants i just planted ten minutes ago.

 

[Baymule]

 

[easttxchick]

The best part of this, gryeyes, is that instead of shooing them out of your plants, you're taking pictures and I bet you were thinking, "Oh, aren't they cute" instead of, "they're destroying my plants".

Gee, wonder how I know this? I put up with a whole lot of nonsense out of my birds. Gotta love 'em.

 

[Morgan7782]

Oh that is TOO true!! Great pictures!!

 

[gryeyes]

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The orange tree is really the only thing I would have LIKED to keep growing, but by the time I saw Delilah in the pot and the tree at that angle, I knew it was a lost cause. So why not enjoy it at that point? Especially since the danged thing has never produced more than orange blossoms and itty-bitty, fingernail-sized, green orange babies before they dropped off. I did like the smell of the orange blossoms. Ah well.

But yes, you are exactly right.

 

[BirdNut]

Wow, Delilah almost uprooted that entire orange tree. But of course, as easttxchick mentioned, they're just too darn cute to get mad at.

Adorable pictures; thanks for sharing!