Friday 19 March 2010

Chickens and Tryfan - Folksy Friday 3

We spent last Saturday night, with our daughter, on a small campsite, near Llandudno Junction, with beautiful views of Snowdonia.

The pitches were in a small paddock area with a duck pond, populated by a variety of ducks and two geese. Their partners in crime, and by far the most adventurous, were a mixed lot of about twenty chickens.  I had never really studied hens closely before. These were of many different breeds and colours. One tiny bantam but many of them almost alarmingly large. They were very friendly, or greedy, and ran at us en masse as soon as we appeared from the van. When we disappeared inside, they summoned us back out, if only to say 'shoo', by pecking vigorously at the step. They were really beautiful in colour, surprisingly vibrant mixtures and lovely, really glossy feathers. They lead a pretty much ideal existence and looked wonderful, not a scrawny or straggly one among them.

And so to Folksy Friday. Not motivated, as you might expect by the approach of Easter, but with thoughts of our campsite chickens with the wonderful views of Tryfan in the background.

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Sophie Martin Illustration

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Northfield Primitives


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Bliss Knits


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meadowmade


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Pants and Paper




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5 comments:

  1. Cluck Cluck! super selection of chickens.

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  2. Cluck cluck from Beady Pool too, gorgeous choices - thanks for sharing.

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  3. Great picks :) I love Chickens & I love Snowdonia. We will hopefully be living there someday soon!

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  4. Aw... chick, chick, chick, chick, CHICKEN lay a little egg for me! I'm in planning for having my own chickens...can't wait, in the mean time though northfield primitives would do nicely thank you..clucking good picks sue x

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  5. Some really cute chicks there. Thanks for including mine!

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