Luckily we were around when a tree 4 doors up the road had to be lopped because its upper branches were interfering with the telephone line. The contractor sawed the big branches off and fed them into an industrial chipper. He was happy to dump half his load for the use of the village. We filled a huge sack which had come with a ton of gravel. We also took several barrow loads up to an elderly neighbour to mulch her flower beds. The rest will mulch the village flower beds.
The chickens had their run cleaned out this morning with their old chippings going to mulch our front garden (the woodland bit).
I wanted to take a picture of them rummaging around in the new chippings. We know there were small caterpillars and bugs because we saw some, but they have evidently found much to delight them. Can't seem to catch them with their heads up at the moment!
We have almost half a bag of chippings left too. They are covered over and weighed down because more gales are forecast this afternoon.
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Is that the first time you have changed the floor covering of the run? The girls arrived in April, so is that 8 months from the first batch - do you think you'll change it again next April (for example) given that they may well make more mess during the winter as there might be less trips into the Big Wide World? Two complete changes in a 12 month period doesn't seem too bad.
We changed it in July Bilbo. I reckon it will be about 4 times a year. It doesn't get too bad in winter because the run's roofed over (this makes it easier to see the poo rather than when it's been washed into the substrate).
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