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My turn to ask a question about something I didn't understand. What do you mean by second choice, that they would not be good broodies ? Why ?

I missed Ini mini's birthday! Please give her another treat for me today. She is such an incredible grandma 🥰🍸🍾. She shares her birthday with my dad ! In human years he is probably just a bit younger than her 😁.

Tintin makes Katrientje looks huge 😊! Curious to see how he turns out, he has so many different colours.

Hope you had a safe trip home and found the chickens well. I'm sure Tintin must have grown a lot !

The chicken my neighbour didn't want, Chipie, turned out to be my senior chicken, not sure if she is 7,8 or 9 by now. I think the issue with her was more due to personality than to health 🥰. I admit if I ever decide to get chickens again, I will maybe get ex-batts. Now I know what I am getting...

But don't you think the notion of comrade leaves out the fact that the responsibility is clearly unbalanced ? (We are responsible for the chicken's fate while they are not responsible for ours.) Edit : fate probably isn't the right word, maybe conditions of life would be better.

@BDutch may prefer a docile broody but it doesn't seem her chickens are either overweight or unhealthy. They have not been able to defend themselves from predators, maybe, although loosing chicks to predators would happen in nature too. I don't mind hostile broodies or chickens and the two hens...

Is it a problem to have a rooster in your neighborhood? Do you know your neighbours sufficiently to ask them ?

So is Pearl now acting as Mum ? Welcome, Tintin 🥰 !

Well, it seems Katrientje has decided for you! Sometimes...well, often actually, things don't go as planned with chickens. But I didn't think it could happen that she would refuse to move ! I hope things will be easier from now on.

Maybe the fact there was only one chick for two broodies made her turn jealous and go against the chick ? So sorry it turned out like this 🙁. Now I suppose it's for the best to move Katrientje as soon as possible. You had a good intuition to check just in time to see Kraai doing that !

Hope you feel better soon ! Try to get a lot of rest and hydrate. My ex-batts still had very red combs after they stopped laying. Their combs only turned pale when they molted or when they were sick. I am not sure if hormones work the same for chickens that are not production breeds.

I can't really help since I don't have a lot of experience. One thing I remember is that integration back in the main coop was difficult for your chicks last year. For this reason, I would say better not to let them too long in the second run. I don't know about co-brooding, but I know that...

That's great news ! The sumtaler seem to have a very different look from your actual deutsch bantams from what I can see ; they look more sturdy / not so lean ? Even though they don't weigh more. Not mentioning that funky hairdo. I'm also excited to see how it goes and hoping all will be well...

Hatching eggs 😮? Or eggs to eat ? Why would the vaccinated hens be more of a risk than unvaccinated ones ? Because if they have been exposed they won't show symptoms and you won't know, like people in the beginning of COVID who were carriers but asymptomatic so they didn't necessarily isolate ?

The chickens are looking very good. How has Ini Mini been doing ? It could be a good idea buying your friend's bantams, so you don't have to raise them as chicks. But bringing in three adult hens will be an interesting integration challenge for your flock 😁.

I think they prefer produces when in season 😁. Joke apart, mine are a lot more interested in watermelon and cucumber in summer. And some of the vegetables leaves they won't touch in spring because there is so much to forage are very welcome in winter (radishes, parsnip and broccoli leaves for...

While I didn't experience any losses, the two times we had hawks attack that wounded a hen, they were afraid and cautious for a very long time, I would say five to six weeks. This was more even true for the older hens who didn't want to come out at all. It is normal and good that they are being...

Cute predator tax

I have changed in the opposite direction of Fuzzi, and would not keep a cat now if it had to be kept indoors. I have done so when I was much younger. Now we live in an environment with no cars and few enough predators, I can see how much happier the cats that we have now are choosing if they...