And animals out of the barn and onto the grass makes me smile even more. That wonderful chomp, chomp sound. And laying down where it is clean. Ah yes, I love animals out on the grass.
Sheila and Poppy are officially Out of the Barn too. They are back in Sheila’s summer corridor paddock with access to the old chook house which I tidied. I threw in some clean straw too. Sheila does like her bed. So do I come to think of it. 
Their winter pen will be cleaned out and prepared for The Plonkers. I will put them all together on the day I shift them all in there. lLter this week probably. It seems to me that the fighting has a lot to do with territory. So if they all go into a strange area at the same time they are less likely to fight. Once they are a team they will go out on the grass with their electric fence. Number Three does not deal with stress very well so we will wait until it is warm and he is back in tip top condition.
I let the pea fowl out for a walk in the sun yesterday. The boys hung about in the loft of the barn but the hens immediately flew out and made a bee line for the vegetable garden. Causing all kinds of mayhem. John (who is the Head Gardener) made all kinds of .. um.. ‘get those hens back in their palace’ statements. There was colourful language. My eyebrow raised. Then I herded the peahens back in again. We are in disgrace. 
But they had a nice walk and some fresh greens, that was the main thing. Godot’s tail is growing. This was a very fast shot as he closed his fan with a decisive snap the moment he saw me creeping around the corner of a hay bale, but you can see those new long feathers.
It will be cooler again today but the warm up is coming! Sunrise is at 5.47 this morning. So much light.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
I am off out to milk my cow.
Your friend on the farmy
ceil
The Kitchen's Garden 
34 responses to “Grass makes me Smile”
Godot’s tail is really splendid. And I loved the pic of Sheila and Poppy. Have a lovely (warm) day. Vx
Poppy and Sheila are so sweet together, their ears skimming one another’s, and Bobby with his Queenie, so cute. And Godot! What a lovely Sunday display. I didn’t know that peacocks can snap shut their feathers in an instant.
We had such a long streak of cloudy, rainy days that when the sun finally came out yesterday, I couldn’t believe how light it was so early in the morning. I bundled up the baby today, and we went for a little walk out to our new thirty acres (bought from the people who used to own the land our house is on). It’s almost all hay field, but there’s an electric hook-up perfectly positioned for a barn someday…
Beautiful images – both the shots and those you conjured up with your words. Hope it was a lovely day!
That gives a whole new meaning to “greased pigs” ha! I love that Godot does look half swan half peacock…Oh and I’m glad this isn’t the only household around that has colorful language when the animals do what animals like to do! 🙂
Good Monday morning! Laughing my head off at the thought of pre-seasoned pigs 😀 !! We do have fast and witty thinkers in the Fellowship!! Lovely, lovely photos especially that of Godot . . . nice mother-son photo of Queenie and her bobby – am wondering how long he will nurse . . .?
Loving your photos Celi!
So good to see the animals moving outside. Godot is building up a splendid tail.
Good morning, c. Now that Peder is retired, he is our Head Gardener also. He’s doing a splendid job at it, too.
It looks like Sheila and Poppy had only nice things to say. They appear to be smiling and content. Queenie and Bobby look nice in the green. Those peahens have a good memory! The peacocks are handsome, tail feathers, or not.