It’s been a while since I uploaded any photos but the last few weeks, I’ve been meaning to snap this daffodil, which was one of the first in the garden and, just outside the patio door, is something I pass every day to the chicken coop.
And on the subject of chickens…
This is Boudicca. She pecks. Everything. Mrs Bump just calls her Pecker, but I put a bit more thought in, and that was how she became Boudicca. Everything. When she first arrived, she pecked the other chickens. Now she pecks me. That’s how I recognise her. Excuse my feet.
Here she is in a less flattering pose:
as you can guess, this is about a millisecond before she pecked the phone.
Just for completeness, here are the two together. Cate is in the background. She was always the placid one. Gets on with life, just like me. Note their colours.
I don’t wish to make a point, but here is one, when she first got here last summer, straight from the battery.
Unrecognisable. Next time you buy eggs from the supermarket, this is what you’re supporting.
Mister Bump 
Look at that gorgeous yellow daffodil! I have a soft spot of daffs. I planted mine over 25-years ago, and every year without fail, they reappear, bright and welcoming, and reassuring that I’ve survived another winter (our family is known to lose loved ones in the month of December and January, for centuries going back. So odd. Makes me a little superstitious). As for your hens, they’re gorgeous. And we never buy supermarket eggs. We go to a farm up the hill who keep chooks (open air; no cages; cooped at night because of foxes and wild mink). We bring our empty carton; they fill it up. 😁
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Best way. Nothing like fresh eggs.
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Beautiful images. I wonder how it must feel to see Pecker ‘peck’ everything all the time.
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Annoying, when it’s me!
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I know you weren’t making a point but it’s a fine point to make. Lovely pics. Hens always make me smile.
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Even if you weren’t making a point I fully support it 👍 Such beautiful birds 🖤
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I love em. Best thing we did was to get chickens.
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👍🖤
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Peckers colors are stunning and Cates too
That daffodil is just majestic.
Thank you for sharing your pics here 😁👏👏👏
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It’s funny, they are “just” common chickens but you look after the then and they are the most beautiful, bronze colours. And every time you see them, you marvel “just how many shades of brown are there?”
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Their colors are gorgeous and the love you have for them is heartwarming
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You have to keep them to see it, but they have such wonderful characters.
However, they will shit in the middle of the lounge, if you let them in the house.
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Well you take the good with the bad 😁
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Yelllow daffodils and a very pretty hen and you have a perfect spring picture. I always buy cage-free eggs
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They are gorgeous!
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I love chickens, we always had them when the kids were young. Thinking about it, we don’t really eat eggs anymore
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I enjoy fresh eggs, although these two aren’t layiing at the moment. Not sure whether they’ve dried up or whether they’re just on strike. Doesn’t much matter to me but Mrs Bump has an issue with it.
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Maybe they need a boyfriend?
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oh god, no. Keeping cocks is not for the faint-hearted. Neighbours would complain, too.
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I kept them … or had they for lunch 🤫
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hmmm no eggs? maybe they’re going through henapause.
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That could be, no joke. The only reason the farm let them go was because they were at the end of their economic life. It’s all money. If we hadn’t taken them they would be a ready meal by now.
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Unfortunately, you are right, everything is money it seems,to most.
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A great way to start my day, daffodils and chickens, thanks for sharing your world with us!
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Tou would find lots to paint here (you could start with the shed 🤣) but I fear at the moment you’d freeze to death!
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