I wonder if they know how lucky they are......

[MINESAPINT]

compared to 25,000,000 of others shut away in cages?

[red]

yeh I tell mine that. particularly the ones not laying...

[The Riff-Raff Element]

I don't think that they do. Mine are electing to spend most of their time either in the (admitedly very high quality!) hen house or within a metre of the pop hole. This, I think, has something to do with the heat (26°C at quarter to ten) and the circling Black Kites that have taken up residence over the cut wheat fields to the back.

[Ratty]

Bless them! We collected 4 very ugly ex-batts today and we're hoping to nurse them back to full-feathered health shortly

[MINESAPINT]

Great! Be sure to take some before & after pictures.

[marshlander]

Did a bit of a tidy up round the back of the greenhouses today and fould a pile of blue eggs laid by Florence, one of our legbars.

We thought she just hadn't been laying a couple of weeks back. Then just as suddenly all was back to normal. - seems she just prefered to lay under the hedge.

All the eggs were smashed (weazel, badger?) so maybe that's why she went back to the nesting box.

Bless them! We collected 4 very ugly ex-batts today and we're hoping to nurse them back to full-feathered health shortly

Eggcellent! (ouch!)