We're trying to get out for a little excursion every day now, although today it was a trifle windy for all of us (you can hear the wind whipping around on the videos I'm uploading -- there will be several new videos on our YouTube site when they all finish uploading there are now several new videos on our YouTube page).
In the last few days we've gotten quite a lot of new feathers. In addition to larger wing feathers and those cute little tails everybody is growing, the girls are putting on new feathers on their shoulders.
There was still a lot of scampering under my legs, but the girls are learning to be adventurous, too.
Today we started out in the rain basin and then moved up the steps to the upper orchard. It was late afternoon and the sun is still pretty horizontal at this time of year, so the footprints showed up nicely.
The girls ended their foray by rustling around in a hebe for a long time, then they hung out writhing and digging under the strawberries. They got filthy.
And I do mean filthy. Carole showed it the best because of her light feathers, but they were pretty much all this gritty with soil.
After an eventful exercise hour, the girls were put back in the transport box and went back to the habitat, where they immediately stuffed themselves with food.
The chickens are so cute! I'm suprised your dog will eat an apple. I remember trying to feed them to my dog when I was a kid but he wouldn't eat them.
I had never heard of dogs eating apples until a professor of mine said his dog had been getting really fat by jumping up and grabbing apples from his apple tree. I gave one to Rosie and that was that.
Probably it depends on the dog, though.