Fraggle let the ladder down for the chucks, they were all happy and clucking around even thought the weather has taken a horrible turn!! It was soooooooo windy that things were crashing around the garden!! Eeeeek!! The girlies weren't bothered though, they huddled together a little more than normal and nestled down into the straw for a bit.
Thomas had a day off while his teachers learned how to teach (hmm haha!!) We kept peeking out at the chucks but it was so horribly cold and windy that we kept running back inside!! Suddenly we realised that Nettle had vanished again, we made a cuppa and waited inside in the warm until she reappeared then we both hurried out to invesigate and sure enough there was another perfect little egg!!!!! yeeeeeehaaaa!! It was slightly earlier than yesterday (yesterday's egg arrived around 1pm) today Nettle had popped it out by about 11.20am so we wonder if we accidentally disturbed her the other day?!
I investigated some information about chicken's during the afternoon as the rain pelted down, I made a make shift shelter to cover the front of the run when the rain got worse to try to stop it driving it at the chuckles!! It seems that the chicken's get redder combs and stuff as they come in to lay and also their legs get whiter.... this seems to be happening to Cotton, ooooooooooh!!!
Evening came and we pondered the time we should get the girls to bed, we looked out after dinner and Cotton had already gone to bed!! yey!! Then we realised the other two, stuck on the ladder, couldn't get up because she was pecking them on the head haaahaha!! We went to give a helping hand and moved her along, when Lupin got up Cotton was totally unimpressed that she had stolen her place and walked over her hahaha!! Can't claim that they went to bed 'quietly' this evening hahahaaaa!! (I hope they remembered to brush their teeth and wash their faces haha!!)
Night night chickens x x
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