What Is This?
What could this close-up photograph be of? It looks a bit like shark's teeth at first glance...any other guesses? Leave a comment with your guesses and no cheating.
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Guess what this is? Sharks' teeth perhaps?
First Decent Egg From Ex-Battery Hen
Ex-battery hen egg (left) compared with shop bought free-range egg.
Our ex-battery hens have laid us a decent egg or two after just a few days in their new coop. This photo shows a camparison between our hen's egg and a shop-bought free-range one. Maybe after some more time, grit(crushed oyster shells), vitamins, greens and exercise from our garden, our chucks might produce a darker coloured egg.
Earlier attempts at egg laying produced eggs with very thin shells or even one with no shell at all.
Chicken Coop
I bought a chicken coop with a view to keeping 3 chickens and we adopted three ex-battery hens. The manufacturers of the coop suggested it was big
Building fox-proof base for chicken coup
enough for up to 4. I considered this a little mean, so decided to extend their coop by building a chicken run. I fox-proofed the coop by digging a hole about a foot deep underneath it and placed a wooden frame underlaid with chicken wire and placed the coop back on top.
A hen enjoying new chicken run
I did the same for the chicken run itself and used 2 by 2 wood which I coated in wood preserver. The wood was tanelised but reckoned that every little helps. The run itself required 5 frames of timber covered in chicken wire and I screwed this together over the top of the sunken frame.
It required about £40 worth of timber, £25 worth of chicken wire (just over 20 metres) and around 200 screws. I suppose nails would have done just as well.
Custom built chicken run
Herbie? – What Is This Answer
Herbie is a bearded dragon I met in Brighton. He belongs to some friend of mine and spends most of his days lazing under a hot lamp, climbing curtains or eating meal-worms and crickets. What a handsome chap. If you look at the photograph and turn your head to the left, his ear hole appears to be a left eye, whilst a flap of skin appears to be a mouth. I wonder if he uses this device to trick insects into running away but into the path of his lightning-fast tongue or maybe it serves to frighten possible predators?
Herbie - a bearded dragon from Brighton
