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We went out yesterday. It was very easy and enjoyable, I think we should do it more often.
We needed sheep feed. Our sheep aren't impressed by the growing grass and eat the hens feed once they've scoffed their's. On the hen feed bags it says 'Do not feed to Ruminants' so I guess we'll be feeding them a while longer. So off we went to get the rest of a ton of feed, instead of pretending we'd just need a couple of bags. We got a guided tour of the polytunnel. We were there a couple of weeks ago (getting a few bags of sheep feed) but everything is bigger now. We tasted the strawberries (several times) and shared a two inch cucumber and side-shooted tomatoes and looked for peaches on the peach tree, but without success. And then we admired two buckets of gungy brown liquid. This is the organic liquid feed, and should never be stirred until everyone is ready to leave the polytunnel. It stinks! But crawling about on the floating bits were loads of half-inch long maggots (that's 12 mm). In the house are some baby quail, so some maggots were gently scooped up and taken in for the quail. For several minutes the quail eyed up the wriggling things until one brave one picked one up in his beak. He threw it down several times and then suddenly realised it was edible and swallowed it. That was it. Most of the quail were dashing round throwing maggots in the air and swallowing them. They may never want to eat chick crumbs again now. And after that little bit of entertainment it was off to hump bags of feed.