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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

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...

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.

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.

Most of the day yesterday. It started off warm and by the late afternoon the rain set in and it's been raining since on and off. Mow is getting over being broody. The nest strip out seems to have done the trick. This is the picture of the chick that got left at the nest. Here they all are and...

It is. I'm hoping this will work out. The chick is yellow and probably one of Henry's and Fret's. If it doesn't Irena says she will take it home again and raise it herself.

Warm, dry, with sunny spells. Four hours today. The person who took the abandoned chick decided the chick would be better off with mum and siblings and after some discussion we decided to see if Fret would accept the chick now that it at least looked healthy and was mobile and alert. I slid the...

Warm, dry with sunny spells. Guess what.:lol: Yep, Mow's gone broody. She's been watching Fret. She doesn't really know enough to sit and hatch yet. She was out most of the day and about an hour before roost time she headed for hte nest and sat all fluffed up and swearing at anyone who got...

I think she did it to make me do more exercise.:p

The yellow chick is big for it's hatch time so I think it may be Fret and Henry's. I think the other two may be from Mow's eggs.

Not really. Four new chicks of which three will will stay at the field. You've been reading that chicken math article where people cant count.:D Nope.:lol: If the person who took the chick had said no it would be dead now. If mums abandon chicks there is a problem. Sometimes the problem isn't...

Warm, dry with sunny spells. Fret had seven eggs and you may notice the sums dont add up. Fret hatched five out of the seven. Somehow an egg got added over the last two days.:confused: All the original eggs were marked and one in the nest box wasn't. It could be one of Mow's. Fret was in the...

The Muscovies got fed the same feed as the chickens but with the addition of a vitamin B complex. It's a problem that crops up over and over on most of the backyard type poultry sites. The assumption is often that the birds are contained and contained birds have different nutrient requirements...