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1. on July 11, 2010 at 12:54 pm Marilyn

   Props for use of the clip! And tell the ladies that the bauk bauk bauks were lovely. :-)

   How big is your font yard?

   
   
   • on July 11, 2010 at 1:01 pm Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

     Quite small, actually, but thankfully we’re bad weeders… ;-)

     
     
2. on July 11, 2010 at 1:01 pm LJ

   I really want chicken – but i am afraid my dogs will eat them!!

   
   
3. on July 11, 2010 at 2:39 pm Sarah - For the Love of Food

   My little one just watched that clip a dozen times – she loves the chickens kept by our good friends who live nearby and kept insisting they were the same ones :)

   
   
4. on July 11, 2010 at 2:53 pm buttercup600

   awww…so adorable….so wish I could have chickens too but!!!! thanks for sharing!!! x

   
   
5. on July 11, 2010 at 3:57 pm Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

   Thank you all for sharing our chickens with us – we’re so besotted with them at the moment that I can’t resist blogging about them. Our friends and family find it all very amusing! :)

   I laughed so much the first time we watched them eating dandelions – the way they were sticking their heads out to try and get to the leaves, and literally walking over the top of each other as they jostled for prime position. We always make sure to set up the dandelions at two or three different spots, so the less dominant hens get a feed too.

   If you watch the clip again, at about the 30 second mark there is a timid little hen with a patch of white on her head. She’s on the far right and she sneaks in and snatches a bit of leaf and then wanders off again. That’s Rosemary, the only one with a name at the moment, and she’s right at the bottom of the pecking order, the poor darling. If we can make sure she’s fed, then we know everyone’s getting enough to eat!

   
   
6. on July 11, 2010 at 4:30 pm spiceandmore

   Very cute. Our chooks go crazy like that for nettles.

   
   
7. on July 11, 2010 at 7:36 pm Amanda

   Our chooks love thistles – and fortunately for them we have no shortage!!

   
   
8. on July 11, 2010 at 8:50 pm Joanna @ Zeb Bakes

   We love your chooks! The only ‘animal’ that Zeb ever actually caught was a chicken and then he ended up with a mouthful of feathers and the outraged bird buried itself in a compost heap. He was just looking at the computer with great interest when he heard your girls…..

   Brian’s Dad used to give his chickens fresh cabbage if there wasn’t enough greenery around. They look so perky and focussed in your film :)

   
   
9. on July 11, 2010 at 8:56 pm Joanna @ Zeb Bakes

   Must have been sticky ribs night on Saturday, we had sticky ribs, rice and wilted baby teeny weeny ruby chard and a lentil veggy concoction. Plus when I finally got round to reading the Guardian this morning, Huge Fern-Wheatbox had written about them too. The weekend of the sticky rib. :)http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/10/vinegar-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall

   
   
10. on July 12, 2010 at 12:11 am heidiannie

    Any bird that loves dandelions is alright in my book!
    Personally- I love dandelions- wilted with a hot bacon and vinegar dressing, dandelion wine- and even bright yellow and smiling saucily at me from the front yard!

    And your chickens are really so polite in the video-I was impressed with their good manners! Rosemary seems very sweet.

    
    
11. on July 12, 2010 at 1:31 am Choclette

    They certainly know what’s good for them. Glad they are doing well.

    
    
12. on July 12, 2010 at 6:49 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

    Thanks all – we’ll look out for thistles and nettles too!

    Jo, thanks for the link, I’ll check out Mr Fearlessly Eats-It-All’s recipe. :)

    
    
13. on July 12, 2010 at 1:09 pm Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella

    Aww they totally love the stuff! I wish I had some to send to you! :P

    
    
14. on July 12, 2010 at 2:09 pm Susan MacDonald

    Can you tell a difference in the flavor of the yolks when they are eating dandelions?

    
    
15. on July 12, 2010 at 2:19 pm Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

    Lorraine, I was just kidding, I probably don’t want everyone sending us their weeds.. :)

    Susan, the yolks taste lovely, but I couldn’t say that they tasted of dandelions. Apparently the greenery does result in golden yellow yolks though..

    
    
16. on July 13, 2010 at 5:41 am C

    You’d be welcome to my prolific dandelions Celia, but I fear they wouldn’t survive the journey ;-)

    Thanks for sharing your chickens with us, they really are great!

    
    
17. on July 16, 2010 at 1:20 am Sasha @ Global Table Adventure

    How cute! What fun … we’ve talked about getting chickens, but I am not sure my killer kitties would let them settle in. They’d constantly be drooling at the fence, or trying to find ways to scale it.

    
    
18. on July 16, 2010 at 6:59 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

    C, it’s interesting how happy I am now to find weeds in the garden! :)

    Sasha, killer kitties would never do – at least dogs can’t climb to a high roost! :)

    
    

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