The Goldies Go Abroad, Or, 200 yards...

If you are one of the fans of the chickens, you know they haven't been able to range for several weeks in the back yard because the grapes are ripening and they cannot be trusted. Even though we've been moving the chicken tractor, and I put in a copy paper box lid in full of dirt for dust bathing, they still miss going out and about. So a couple weekends ago we tried an experiment, a field trip!

First steps out...

Investigating tasty weeds along the pond's edge.

We let them range for two hours. I sat in the shade and wrote in my journal.

Here they are investigating the little red barn...

Peeking around the tree...

Dumb dumb Goldie here got separated from the other three and called and called. I had to go over and lead her to the other Goldies mooching around the other side of the pond.

And here is a random picture of one of the smaller bullfrogs floating in the pond.