Wasps and cruelty

A day without rain!!!...well until 4.40 pm that it!

I cannot quite believe I had around 8 hours dry working time, so I have dismantled all of the coops, disinfected them all (the dreaded red mite it back),emptied the pig latrine then scrubbed the pig hut out and refilled it with wood chippings! By mid afternoon I looked (and smelled) dreadful, but at least all the crappy jobs have been finished,which is good as tomorrow I am doing my first hospice shift and Sunday I am working on ITU

The rain started just as I finished slopping out, so I joined Gladys and Nora and sat in their hut drinking a welcomed diet coke with George also for company.

The better weather has brought some of the villagers out, so I have been stopped by a steady stream of egg customers and pig feeders .

One of my visitors asked if I would take some hens off him as he was too busy to look after them properly, after some questioning I found out that they were older hens that were no longer laying, so where not any good to me, but after I said that I couldn't take them, this bloke stated he would take them into the woods and let them fend for themselves.

I almost lost my temper with his insensitivity, and suggested that the animal rescue centre may take them, but he didn't seem interested,so curtly I told him to drop them off with me rather than abandon them to the elements.

People can be so cruel, when their hens become unproductive!...perhaps I may be able to find them a new home!

I have also been watching the to-ing and fro-ing of wasps in their nest located in the bank next door to Bunny's enclosure, for a few days now. They have taken over a rodent hole and their constant activity has meant that I have had to forgo any activity in that part of the field.

I have found their presence strangely interesting.- if you look closely at the photo , you can just see one of the colony leaving the nest, it looks like a tiny spaceship leaving a mother ship!