We have had the most amazing crop of sour cherries this year. So many cherries on this small tree! The chickens all love them and spend all day hanging around underneath, eating the cherries as they drop off.
We picked some and made cherry jam - usually these cherries are mouth puckeringly tart, but this year they are so sweet! The jam is delicious as well.
I had a big clean out and rearrange of the chickens both large and small. The original group of Seramas - ( Algy, Biggles and Ginger the cockerels and mini Pearl, Milly and Mollie the hens are all in the home made house and run. They have perches and plenty of space if they have to be shut in because I am not there in the daytime to keep them safe from Mrs Fox. I have also bought another two black silkies and a gold laced Serama pullet. The gold laced pullet is in with the not chicks and the black silkies are in with the older Seramas. Algy is very fond of one of them!
The notchicksanymore have grown into beautiful Seramas. They have the Eglu and another home made run to live in when not free ranging. We have Mimi and Yvette ( the new black laced pullet) along with Rene and Chancellor the cockerels. (Yes we have been watching re runs of Allo allo! )
The big hens live in the Mega hen pen and I have acquired several new hens, Astrid a Speckledy, Aggie a new marigold and Ginger, a Columbian Blacktail. They replace the sadly dead Pearl and Aggie 1 who were taken in the fox attack which so badly injured Sweetiepie.
And Sweetiepie is fully feathered and recovered and back to ruling the roost with a claw of velvet :)
Here are Yvette and Mrs Algy enjoying the sunshine
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