Mindful that a fox failed to grab one of our 8 hens in broad daylight, we make sure to be working in the garden before letting them out of their run. They don’t like slugs much, but they’ll pick at most small animal or plant matter in the soil. It is interesting to see them gobble away on horsetail and dandelion leaves. Their hit and miss approach makes little impression however. That being said, t
Varak, the lucky hen which escaped the fox, here scratching around a self seeded sunflower.
heir daily egg laying makes them well worthwhile at the end of the day.
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