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An hour this morning and two this afternoon. Dry until I got to the city on the way home. Some of the area closer to the goose run had become very overgrown and under used. This got brush cut today and the chickens and geese have more usable room now. Nope, he's not dying :D This is Henry...

The only mites in the coop are going to be Scaly Leg Mite. I've had a few hens that won't return to the hatch nest once the chicks are mobile. Donk, a hen in Catalonia frogmarched 4 chicks from the maternity unit straight back to her tribe's coop at two days old and established herself wedged in...

Maybe even Fret Minor.:D

I struggle to eat one cake from the Polish bakery down the road.:D

The article is fine but the underlying premiss is wrong and this is a common problem when writing about keeping chickens cool. Water is water, the temperature of the water within the range freezing to boiling doesn't make any difference to water's hydration properties. Everything we (humans and...

Half an hour this morning. Did I mention I'm knackered?:p Two and a half hours this afternoon. The app on my phone tells me I've done 12000 steps today. I spent most of the afternoon at the field weeding. Weeding just isn't the same without Henry by my side helping; it's a lot quicker though.:lol:

Fret went broody and hatched, Mow just went broody.

Yup. It is growing season so there are people coming and going. When Fret sat last it was October and by then the field has gone very quiet. Everybody thinks the the chicks are cute. The couple of people who said I was irrisponsible letting Fret hatch in the coop and seemed to believe one should...

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Fret is barking mad when she's off the nest and broody with eggs. She tries to do everything at once, eat, drink, poop and dustbath. As a mum she's pretty chilled.

I remember seeing the first video but not the second. Great videos I might add.:love I've had the nest box wars but Ive been fortunate in not having that many broodies in the same place at once. I've had broodies spread about the tribes but they had their own nests.

An hour this morning and two and a half this afternoon. Grey, cool, but it didn't rain. I think Fret looks lovely in this picture.

Carbon has not gone broody to the best of my knowledge and isn't showing any interest in doing so. This is a bit odd because the UK CCLs have the reputation of being medium to high broodies.

I believe he does. There are lots of factors in trying to establish a semi feral group which is as near to Landrace as one is likely to achieve. I know this sounds rather odd to most people but the first thing one has to do is not want. As soon as one says I want this and I want the chickens to...

It can make a good nest base.

I believe so. You may remember from my thread that Fret went broody a few weeks back and I've written that she was waiting. What she was waiting for was no Dig. As soon as Dig was gone she laid a few eggs, I can't remember how many, and sat. Another example of a chicken planning which a lot of...

Rain on and off all day. Four hours today. This morning was quick and this afternoon around two and a half hours. I've been watching the tribe dynamics (that's what they are now) carefully over the past few weeks. The removal of Dig had more of an effect than just less noise. :p Obviously the...

She does in those pictures and she does now, but she looked far from fine when I gave it to Irena. We've been lucky, all three of us, chick, Irena and me. It could have all gone horribly wrong.

You can with a lot of hens I've found. One ot two catch one out, probably because one has been paying attention to other matters. I found (again) most hens lay any of their eggs in a human provided nest box, move to another location for egg laying if enough options are available. I've had hens...

I'm glad you noticed the big grin.:p