Bath time!
The chickens like to hang out under our porch when it’s hot & they get really into their dust baths.
We now have names for four of the hens. There’s HH (pronounced with a jaw-clenched-upper-crust accent) who used to be the head hen, but seems to have been knocked down a notch. There’s Floppy who has the floppiest of combs and who is now the head hen. There’s Gimpy, she of the (now healed) broken foot. (Not politically correct, sorry.) Last and at the bottom of the pecking order, there is Bitey. Guess why we call her that?
Haven’t named the fifth yet because she doesn’t really seem to have any special characteristics.
Egg production is well underway. Gimpy has finally re-joined the flock, thank goodness. We’ve had a few skirmishes among all the birds, and some bloodshed, but nothing catastrophic.
23 weeks old tomorrow! Almost six months old.
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We’ve started getting eggs (just one layer) – but woke up yesterday to find one of ours dead. She seemed fine the day before – don’t know what happened. I suspect egg-compaction. All the others are completely fine.
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