Taking a bath

November 26, 2007

Hen taking dust bathThis afternoon I found one of the hens laying in what used to be our pot of herbs. I write “used to be” because as soon as the hens had shed their fears for being outside their hutch and started wandering about, they soon discovered this little pot. And made a complete mess of it… all herbs have been eaten and a fair amount of soil has been removed. It now looks more like a comfortable bed. And is indeed being used as such. One of the browns was literally lying in it on one side, wings spread out. Really, a weird sight, but it appears to be normal behavior…

To my surprise - or should I say irritation - I also saw sheep roaming about the lawn. How did they get there? I had repaired the fence with the neighboring croft during the summer and I was 100% sure that it was impossible for them the crawl under it. I also was pretty sure that I had closed the gate. So I carefully started to walk towards them and luckily they choose the right way: towards the fence at the road side. There I saw the gate fully opened. Then it dawned to me… yesterday some student from Poland had come by the house trying to sell his artwork and he probably had not bothered to close the gate, maybe because I wasn’t too interested in his work. Anyway, the sheep were easily driven back to road.

The above picture shows one of the browns coming out of the pot. Unfortunately I was not in time to shoot her in “bathing mode”, bit I’m sure you get the idea…

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