We haven't travelled up north (just incase you were confused by our post title) but we have been looking after a friend's 5 chickens - what fun!
Chicken feeding and egg collecting is the perfect job for me ('nature notes' Chelmer) and my gardening bear friend, Tommy. We wandered over to the home of the girls late morning, and found them eagerly awaiting our arrival. It gave us a warm feeling to have our appearance so enthusiastically greeted.
We got straight down to business topping up the corn bowl and scattering some around, so that those lower down the pecking order got a look in on the grub. (We were sad to see 2 of the 5 girls looked looked very hen pecked round their tail feathers and we just don't understand why all creatures can't live as companionably as all of us Bears Unlimited bears).
Next came the exciting bit of looking inside for eggs. We were in luck, there were 4 beautiful big eggs today. We gathered them up ready to hand over to chef Oakley. Thank you girls.
We could get used to looking after the chooks, but sadly, we've only got 1 day of it, as our friends have a rota for chicken feeding, to give several people a chance of some free eggs.
Maybe, one day, we'll get some chooks of our own.
It's dark now, as we write, so we'll say goodnight and sleep tight girls.
Love Tommy and Chelmer xxx
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Here chicky chicky! Suffolk Branch want to know if they lay special chocolate eggs for Easter?
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