I had arranged to do a swap with Gail, our baby cockerel for one of her hens. So the new hen, a red one, came and joined our flock. She began to settle in. She wasn't used to Cocky's ways but was coming round to it...
And then this rain came. Very heavy rain that kept us inside for the afternoon, but at one point I looked out the window and saw something moving down the fence. I took a better look and saw an Alsation-type dog, and then I noticed another more fluffy job, followed by an almost-dachshund. What's this? Where are the chickens?
We went outside and shooed the dogs away and found some of the chickens, all sheltering in separate places. But the new red hen was missing. Bonnie found parts of it, later :( I reckon that it didn't have a chance because it was new to here and it had had it's wings cut so it couldn't fly up into a tree. But since there were three dogs it probably didn't have a chance, anyway.
The swales are full of rain and the young trees we planted look happy with their new leaves. The big tank is filling up with water from the roof. It's well over half full already. Yippee!
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