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Laure is definitely not broody but tiny Chipie is beginning to be quite a thing 🤣. Whenever she sees me, she follows me everywhere making broody growls. If I ignore her, she pecks at my shoes, then jumps on my shoulder ! I'm afraid that my usual method to lock the coop after lunch and force the...

If I don't post on the thread during the day, once I've had dinner I just feel so tired that I go straight to sleep- as soon as it's dark enough to take any broodies out of the nests and on the roost ! It's that time of year when days feel too long. But I don't have much news, actually. The...

I'm an old hen too, then🤣. All my chickens go to bed too early, even the younger ones. When I had only the ex-batts they went to bed much later. Maybe they want to avoid the roosters attention in the evening ? Or maybe it's a health issue ? Or just because the weather has been crappy so many...

Her eye sight is ok. I think she has either some form of articular pain, or the imbalance is neurological. She really crouches on the roost and on the ramp as if she couldn't stay up. But during the day she seems to walk and run normally, and she looks like she is doing good. She doesn't really...

One lesson I learnt the hard way from Piou-piou is to trim away all the feathers close to the wound 🙁. And that you likely need to do it again as feathers can grow back. Yes, I'd be interested to know what your vet says. Looking it up on the internet in french, it seems that dealing with wounds...

RC, I'm very glad and also very grateful you took the time to write this, thank you so much ! It's really interesting, and also challenging to my current practices. I am very drawn to that idea that skin can heal itself- it seems so perfect. As usual I wish I hadn't stopped biology and...

It means you run away. It's an excerpt from a song and it's very hard to translate because it's based on word games and doesn't really have a meaning. The t-shirt says "Ode to the night, where you run away, burnt by stars, in full noon." I want to comment on this but I'm afraid I won't make...

I never heard that term TLC before, so I had to look it up. It is a very comforting idea ! Reminds me of being allowed to sleep in my parent's bed when I was sick as a child. Wonderful! And your garden looks so green ! It makes a lovely contrast with the purple. Believe it or not, cottage...

In France when I was young, people from the Netherlands were seen like the green people in Europe, with the germans. It's very sad it has turned out like this, and when you feel like a stranger in your country. But maybe in a year or two people will realise populism can't keep it's promises ...

Now that last point is something I can totally relate with. Not thinking about what will happen if a male chick does not get along with the adult rooster or hoping having consolidated a third of the property 's fence will stop the boar from destroying the garden come to mind 🙄.

Yes, I agree in general cases. For her we did feel looking at the wound antibiotics were needed because it is so deep and we can't manually clean it inside properly. The first round of antibiotics she had were in November to try to avoid surgery. That was a gamble, but I agreed giving a try at...

Thanks for the suggestions! I tried the bread, but it didn't work. I think she may be more picky than usual because she is broody, as she had two rounds of antibiotics this winter with no issue. It's liquid like water and I need to give 1ml, so it has to be with something that can either absorb...

Thank you again for sharing your thoughts, it's interesting for me to hear your reactions as I tend to think in circle. I do agree with most of what you say ; it seems Frida isn't sure about it though 😁. I suppose you saw the Guardians paper interviewing hundred of scientists, many who...

I am not happy chicken wise with the last two days. Lilly is crated and will be for another day ; we pour betadine in her wound morning and evening. It's a good thing she is half broody because it helps her bear the confinement better- she sits on an egg half of the day. She gets two times out...

The cats say they don't mind rain but they mind being woken up. Wanted to share this that came up in my social media today. Her poetry may not be technically the best but often I feel like she expressed my exact feelings.

Thank you all again for the kind words. I miss her more than I imagined. Partly because spending so much time caring and worrying for her made me feel more attached, but also now she's gone I really feel a page has turned in our chicken journey. It's due to specific circumstances. My partner...

The post about Blanche, the little ex-batt with nine lives. She was the first hen we named for a simple reason : when the ex-batt's arrived as pullets, she was the only one we could tell apart because she was whiter than all except Cannelle, and smaller. But she turned out to be the last to...

I use soap, and I don't think it's questionable. It's what I've been told to use when I did first aid training and my brother told me it's what the paramedics are told to use as well. It's just that in this case a spray would have been more convenient, I didn't have enough clean towels to sponge...

Another post about a distressing health issue 😬. I am going to do just what I said I wouldn't, and post in detail about some yucky scary chicken health problem that I encountered yesterday. I hope the outcome turns out to be not as bad as the fright it gave me ! I may be too squeamish for...

Thank you all so much for the kind thoughts. I feel so dumb bawling for a chicken that I knew would die, your support means a lot. Beautiful words. I don't feel guilty for once, because in her case I'm sure we did what she wanted in the end. I have been worrying she would die for such a long...