Monday, 12 May 2008

Lola

Introducing Miss Lola, an Araucana chicken who will eventually lay blue eggs. She is quite a flighty girl and runs at top speed around the yard. She loves to scratch in the garden bed and have a lovely dust bath, eventually settling down into the hole she has made for a sleep.


As you can see she has a predilection for young vegetable seedlings. She couldn't be coaxed into smiling for this shot.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that we have a lot to learn about chickens. The first thing is that they do not like to be rounded up to go back into their coop. After a fruitless and madcap race around the yard for an hour or so trying to catch darting chickens Inger and I gave up. We then just left the door of their coop open and watched. The girls all then sauntered in quite casually as soon as the sun started to set! They obviously were working to a different timetable than us. The other thing we have learned is that home grown eggs actually taste like............well......eggs! In comparison the eggs from the supermarket don't actually have a flavour. We are enjoying such delicious cakes and tarts made from the eggs of our funny girls.

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