[Selkie]

our hens have a relatively large opentopped run but in the last month or so they've really starting scratching up the grass and parts of it are just bare earth (or would be if i took away the autumn leaves i put in for them to scrat about it)

our soil is sooo stony it would be hard to bash in the fencing posts to make another run for them so i had the brainwave (don't laugh) of sub-fencing parts of their run off so the grass could have a chance to recover.

i've blocked off two of the corners but because it's practically winter now the grass won't really grow that much in the coming months.

so this afternoon i dug up patches of grass from our gravel path and have transplanted them into the bare patches; hopefully a good proportion of them will catch. i've dug up daisies, plantain and dandelions on the path too, for a bit of variety.

i'm not sure how much of a success it will be but nothing ventured nothing gained!

[Aunt Sally]

Good luck Rose, what lucky chooks you have  

Are you going to cover some of the run to stop it becoming a mud bath over winter :?:

[Selkie]

if it rains they go back into their little house or else they shelter by the shed door - it gets so windy here (southwesterly gales :cry: ) that we'd end up losing anything that would act as a cover

[Aunt Sally]

Which bit or Ireland are you in Rose ?

[Selkie]

county kerry, right by the seaside (far south west of ireland - you can't get much more westerly without hitting america)

it's lovely but we do get bad storms

[Aunt Sally]

Woooow... I've had a wonderful holiday in Kerry, it is sooo beautiful.  Wet and windy but absolutely beautiful.

We stopped off one day for a cuppa, by the sea almost at the end of the road into the sea.  It was a lean too shack on the side of a house in the middle of nowhere.  The weather was... "damp" the scenerery was out of this world.  The tea and cakes were ....   mmmmm

I'll swap you Kent for Kerry  

[Selkie]

it is gorgeous here! every day i appreciate how lucky i am to have been able to come home, and that my home is soooo beautiful!

when you grow up here you don't really appreciate the scenery --- mountains:pah!, lakes:pah! (though i've always loved the sea - my mum says i'm part mermaid i spend so much time down on the beach :oops: )

 :roll: sorry but i don't want kent... :oops:

[Aunt Sally]

:roll: sorry but i don't want kent... :oops:

Me neither... except for the sunshine - it is warm here  :roll:

[si-mate]

Kent would be a lovely place if half the people disappeared.

[Sadgit]

swap you all for Middlesbrough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Selkie]

:oops: i don't even know where that is...but am staying put!