poorly little red hen

June 18, 2010 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)28 Comments

Poor Toffee has hurt her foot.

No-one is very sure how it happened but it seems most likely that she caught a toe when coming down the ramp one morning. She is limping and unable to scratch around as chickens like to do so is spending much of her day sitting.

Hopefully it's just a sprain and will start to get better soon but for now we're
all taking care of her and the other two chickens are spending a lot of
time sitting with her which is quite touching. I'm at a bit of a loss to know what to do but will see how she is after the weekend – I'm hoping she'll be OK. Apart from chicken nursing, we'll be spending the weekend preparing for Amy's ballet show on Sunday and I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures to show off afterwards! Enjoy your weekend where you are.

sunday afternoon

March 28, 2010 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)24 Comments

It's been lovely and spring-like here this afternoon, appropriate for the first day after the clocks change for summer time.

Toby and I have been in the garden most of the afternoon – I've been
planting out my lettuce seedlings, onion sets and sowing some carrot seeds
and Toby has been swinging, bouncing and running around in his jammies
and wellies!

He's also had fun helping feed the girls.

It's lovely to be out in the fresh air together and to kick off our veg growing season for this year.

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tidy up time

October 12, 2009 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)26 Comments

The last few days have been spent in the garden where everything is winding down. We've picked the last of the tomatoes, courgettes, raspberries and carrots and have lots of onions now in storage. There are a few beans still producing, a couple of potato bags left to dig up and the cabbages, kale and broccoli are still going strong. But it definitely feels like we're getting down to the last of the yummies our garden has to offer us for this year.

We've had a bumper crop of grapes this year – although we mostly leave them for the birds as they're not very sweet.

Now the garden is being tided and cleared ready for digging in some compost to get everything ready for next season and then a nice winter rest. The chickens have been helping me tidy up – they do a great job of breaking up the soil!

It's been lovely to watch them roaming around outside of their run which is possible once again now that Toby isn't spending so much time in the garden (a small boy who likes to put anything in his mouth and run around barefoot does not mix well with large quantities of chicken poo on the grass!)