Goings on in the henhouse

It's been a while since we've put pen to paper but the light in the coop is not good and we find we constantly squabble about whose turn it is to write and then when we have finally decided it is dark, so tonight we took it in turns... me (Snowdrop) first:

Look what happened last week - someone joined me in the laying arena - in fact I know just who it was - Bluebell, as she insisted upon sitting on top of my whilst I laid mine, so Jane had a little shock when she found 2 hot eggs laid at the same time.

It is not clear from the picture but the non-white egg is slightly torpedo shaped - it proved to be a double-yolker in fact, so now I need to work harder to get my eggs preferred to hers!
 

Blubell here - that's me above - look at my lovely big fluffy bottom - well, I am all proud now that I am laying breakfast for Jane and the boyfriend.  The reason that I have such a large bottom is that I lay double-yolkers - well, one out of one ain't bad!

Gingernut here - we are playing a little trick on Jane, because today we laid 3 eggs between us and now she does not know whether it is me or Jet who has added to the layers amongst us - well, unless you give me a mealworm I'm not telling you...

Jet here - it was me - well, it might have been, only I'm not sure as I am a little bit forgetful - you know how it is, I can get up the ramp to the coop and then say to myself "what have I come up here for then", so it is no use asking me is it...

Cuckoo taking over for the remainder of the blog now and I am also a bit forgetful but don't think it was me, if it was then I forgot to "speckle" it - we will keep her guessing again tomorrow.  Well, we have to as Jane the the boyfriend abandoned us on Saturday night and went galivanting off to Leicestershire to see the boyfriends parents (does that make them Granny and Grandad?) and left us to the care of David - he looks after us well but on principle we will sulk when Jane goes away!

In fact, they also went to an airshow and saw a hen called the Vulcan flying around - I can only assume that she has not had her wings clipped...

We're out!!!!!

It is so easy to find an excuse to NOT let them out - today I seemed to have run out.  We got back from an afternoon out and the girls were cooing and chatting and I just decided to open the door and let them go for it (well, the net arrived the other day and having already walked by the run with it I know that Snowdrop (the fast one) knows what it is for and pops upstairs for a rest when she sees it ;)

  Left to right, Gingernut, Bluebell, Cuckoo, Snowdrop and Jet

They soon had stretched their legs and wings and were enjoying the lush green grass  (note to self, get the lawn mower out next week) whilst I cleaned out the coop and run for them and topped up the water and food.  They seem to like to stick together...

I recommend the self-service here, says Snowdrop:

But the packet was securely shut.  Maybe there's something in here?

Nope, nothing there...

Surprisingly, once the bedding was refreshed in the run they were keen to get back in there.  It was a case of three in, one out, two in, one out, two in, one out and then, WOW, they were all in - time to shut the door and get myself a long cool beer methinks!