We arrived, shut the entire flock in a different part of the allotment with some treats, and let Siouxsie and Camilla out of the cat carrier and gave them time to wander round and reacquaint themselves with the old homestead.
We let Bertie and Ping & Pong out as well. Pong didn't venture out. Ping did. Bertie couldn't decide what to do.
After a bit of farting about, we opened the 'gate'. Bertie and Ping went unnoticed.
Two girls immediately spotted Cami and Siouxsie and went on the attack It was most unpleasant. Camilla and Siouxsie fought back, and I intervened to separate them. It was interesting to see who was threatened by their return, I assume the two 'offenders' must have been at the bottom of the remaining ecking order and wanted to make sure they didn't slip down any further. It was one of the harem girls - I don't know which one, we've long stopped having leg rings - and one of the Yllis twins (Phyllis or Dyllis, can't tell them apart ).
When we'd finished with the mucking out, watering, filling feeders, we herded Bertie and Ping back to their area. I gave the main flock some corn over on the other side of the allotment, and gave C & S some tuna.
And then we left them to it.
When I got home, I immediately pulled out all the temporary fencing, cleaned out the coop, and cleaned and put away the feeder, drinker, coop cups and other bits and pieces. I decided not to dismantle the coop just yet.
I wish I could have kept Cami and Siouxsie here in the garden. However, the little bit of garden they had is not suitable for long term living, and keeping them would have meant integrating them with the existing 5 Garden Girls. That would have been incredibl stressful, probably more stressful than having to go back to the Allotment.
It was very hard though.
