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We were pretty sure we had baby hedgehogs in the garden, living under an enclosure in one of our sheds, so we put out food for them. Being especially lucky today, I saw the little hedgies (MOFO and Gangsta) for the first time today... during broad daylight, too!
We were asked to take on a baby piggy which arrived on Friday, whose human mother is moving and cant accommodate a guinea pig in an outdoor run (she didnt want her piggies to live a life indoors in a small cage) - so we have yet another new addition to the family.
The guinea pig will have a hutch at night, 20 square feet outdoors during the day, and 250 square metres outdoors to run when someone is home. I work from home so she'll have a decent life and plenty of exercise when weather permits. Plus a cool rescue rabbit friend to roll with with as they cruise around the garden destroying it together.
The gerbils had a rummage in a small outdoor straw play cage. Having never been in straw and hay before, they enjoyed the tunnelling.
Gerbil offers to count some seeds for the chicken, to make sure none are missing...
...then runs off with half of them before the chicken can blink.
Bought some proper hedgehog nosh at the shops today, for the baby hedgehogs, and was treated to my first sighting of the year, of their mother (Red Eyed Edna) this evening. Two sightings in one day, how rare!
Ive posted previously, that we have a ramp (previous owner of property) for a wheel chair. Roll a ball down the ramp, it only reaches 1mph, but the chickens run as if they were reenacting the following Indiana Jones scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark:
So I took a photo of the ball they dislike so much...
Printed it out on A4, called our most responsive chicken for food.
Then held up the picture. She stopped immediately, clucked and ran the other way towards a large trug.
Proof enough chickens can read signs
All Hail Mobsta and the chicken sign reading experiment
Chickens are new to us. This year anyway. It may be old hat to the seasoned chicken veterans on PH, but teaching them to read body language is dead easy. And hugely rewarding, when a silent gesture (food in hand) has them racing towards you like wobbly wombles on stilts in a mad rush to get to you.
Don't remember if I posted this recent pic the other day - these are the guys who half run/half fly towards you the fastest, if you make that "here's food" sound... or gesture.
I have no other photos from this weekend, but would like to see yours. Indoor, outdoor, anything smallish, whatever.
We were asked to take on a baby piggy which arrived on Friday, whose human mother is moving and cant accommodate a guinea pig in an outdoor run (she didnt want her piggies to live a life indoors in a small cage) - so we have yet another new addition to the family.
The guinea pig will have a hutch at night, 20 square feet outdoors during the day, and 250 square metres outdoors to run when someone is home. I work from home so she'll have a decent life and plenty of exercise when weather permits. Plus a cool rescue rabbit friend to roll with with as they cruise around the garden destroying it together.
The gerbils had a rummage in a small outdoor straw play cage. Having never been in straw and hay before, they enjoyed the tunnelling.
Gerbil offers to count some seeds for the chicken, to make sure none are missing...
...then runs off with half of them before the chicken can blink.
Bought some proper hedgehog nosh at the shops today, for the baby hedgehogs, and was treated to my first sighting of the year, of their mother (Red Eyed Edna) this evening. Two sightings in one day, how rare!
Ive posted previously, that we have a ramp (previous owner of property) for a wheel chair. Roll a ball down the ramp, it only reaches 1mph, but the chickens run as if they were reenacting the following Indiana Jones scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark:
So I took a photo of the ball they dislike so much...
Printed it out on A4, called our most responsive chicken for food.
Then held up the picture. She stopped immediately, clucked and ran the other way towards a large trug.
Proof enough chickens can read signs
All Hail Mobsta and the chicken sign reading experiment
Chickens are new to us. This year anyway. It may be old hat to the seasoned chicken veterans on PH, but teaching them to read body language is dead easy. And hugely rewarding, when a silent gesture (food in hand) has them racing towards you like wobbly wombles on stilts in a mad rush to get to you.
Don't remember if I posted this recent pic the other day - these are the guys who half run/half fly towards you the fastest, if you make that "here's food" sound... or gesture.
I have no other photos from this weekend, but would like to see yours. Indoor, outdoor, anything smallish, whatever.
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