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First attempt at fitting the no-crow collar on our BLR Wyandotte, Devineaux. 😂😂😂 Edit: We did fix up the fit after this, put a few more of his hackle feathers underneath, so he doesn’t look like an umbrella anymore. 😂

What’s an immature ova? Ovum? Did you mean like an egg inside an egg? Looks meaty to me. :/

Found this one in an egg this evening. It was horrifying! The rest of the egg looked okay, and I’d cracked it straight into the cake bowl—so I just dug it out and cooked on. Still, ick. :/ It’s greyish and irregular with a solid, rubbery feel to it and a very smooth slick outside, about a cm...

This is my black lady modelling the eggs. I didn’t get a pic of my rooster, who was the one whose dangly egg feathers around his ears had been confusing me for ages—they were roughly the same colour as his feathers, so they didn’t show up well even under close examination. It was just so weird...

Just an update: Wyatt has officially doubled her weight from her skinniest, and now has a lovely sturdy keel, has good colour and a well-filled out face, and is holding her own in the flock. Once she had turned the corner, she packed on weight very quickly for a couple of weeks until she was...

Thanks for checking in. She’s definitely improving. Up to 1360g, just by keeping her locked up with chick food mash made with water, ACV and yoghurt for a few days. She’s been getting through 120g of chick food per day for about 50g of weight gain per day, so I’m happy she’s taking in a more...

Okay, thanks guys. Interesting to hear that Eggcessive had a chook that starved herself in a similar way. I will try putting in a secondary feeder when I let her back in with the rest of the flock again. For today, she is in my hospital wing eating as much as she a mash made of scrambled egg...

Wyatt, my SLW pullet, is ridiculously skinny. Literally, there is nothing either side of her keel, and she’s light as a feather. Her face is sunken in like a skull with eyes. She’s meant to be a standard, and she weighs half as much as my Isa Brown/red sex link, who has been until now the chief...

Warning: I put my black chicken in a black bra I’d made myself, no problem with contrast attracting pecking, but after a couple of months of happily wearing it, she worked out how to unravel the elastic and shredded it within a day. Unfortunately in the process, she got the strong polyester...

The Polish on the left and the Wyandotte on the right are both 15 weeks old now. Mama Araucana still likes to keep them under her wings. ❤️ We let her raise them in with the flock from about day 3, and it worked very well.