Silkies in the Garden... Part 3

This came from the magazine Backyard Poultry by Gail Damerow.

By  the end of summer they had ventured as far as to a small bed of Asiatic lilies, some 55 feet away, where they found the loose soil more congenial for dust bathing. Soon they were stirring up flower bulbs, which is not a serious problem for Asiatic lilies because they reproduce like weeds.
                      The forsythia and the lilies are both tall enough to make good hiding places for the little black Silkies. Unless they are cooing each other or flinging dirt over themselves you wouldnt know they were there. That is, until fall time when the forsythia lost its leaves and the lilies died back. The day we spotted a red-tailed hawk sitting on the fence above the Silkie coop we decided to move them back to the barn for the winter.

    To be continued again.........