Agree. I enjoyed following along @BDutch
BDutch's bantam flock & natural breeding projects #5 🪺 🪺 and #6
I enjoyed following along too!
Thanks for sharing your chicken adventures!
I enjoyed your vacation photos too.
I enjoyed your vacation photos too.
And I hope we get once in a while an update on your chickens, especially the incredible Ini mini !
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Of course.
If something out of the ordinary happens, I continue to post.
But today I have not really much to say.
Only Janice is going through a terrible moult. And Gin or Tonic laid an egg in the playhouse on the floor.
If it happens again I might make something where they can lay their egg in comfortably and clean. A cat litter box or a cardboard box both fit.
. Its not much work to make a new one every month. MDH drinks at least a carton with 6 wine bottles anyway monthly. 
Special delivery 
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Yesterday I found 2 Amrock eggs in the playhouse on the floor. I put a cardboard box with sand, shavings and hay in the playhouse. To avoid that they are going to lay in the poop.
I noticed the poop doesn’t dry up nicely in the playhouse with all the rainy weather. I covered the window with plastic and cardboard when Whisky made too much noise and I thought it would be nice for Ini mini to keep it against the cold East wind. But the two hwc strips under the roof are not sufficient for good ventilation. To dry the poop the chickens/coop needs a better air flow. I decided to take away half of the plastic cover on the front window.
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Only Black came towards me to say hello. I have the feeling, she remembers I saved her life late summer. Remember I took her home after I found her all messed up (hurt) on the garbage bin the road.
2 of the neighbour cats are very pleased we returned home too. Now they come to steel some of the food, meant for the chickens, again.
Gin, who is fanatically foraging.
She was very occupied doing so and didn’t come back to the run when I gave the chickens treats, which I always do before locking them up for the night.
I know now I have to count before I close the doors.
^ This is where I found Gin. Behind our garden on municipality ground where old twigs are rotting.
The 2 Amrocks have developed a routine to lay their eggs. Gin lays real brown eggs in the cardboard box in the playhouse. And Tonic lays cream coloured eggs in the nestbox in the small coop (the spot where she was hatched).
They laid 6 and 7 eggs in the 10 days around Xmass and New Year. I must admit I am very pleased I don’t need to buy eggs in the supermarket this winter.
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@RoyalChick
About antibiotics in the Netherlands:
In factory farming there is a lot of illegal trade in antibiotics and the vets tend to prescribe it quite easily. Since approx 15 years , they have more restrictions on antibiotics use. But illegal use has grown.
I did a bit more research to get a better idea about antibiotic use and resistance from antibiotics. It seems that the restrictions had a positive effect.
A recent article, maybe readable with auto-translate? : https://www.pw.nl/nieuws/2024/vaker-zeer-resistente-bacterien-gevonden-in-nederlandse-ziekenhuizen
Background info about antibiotics and farming. This article is from 2015 :https://nos.nl/l/2028192
About antibiotics in the Netherlands:
In factory farming there is a lot of illegal trade in antibiotics and the vets tend to prescribe it quite easily. Since approx 15 years , they have more restrictions on antibiotics use. But illegal use has grown.
I did a bit more research to get a better idea about antibiotic use and resistance from antibiotics. It seems that the restrictions had a positive effect.
A recent article, maybe readable with auto-translate? : https://www.pw.nl/nieuws/2024/vaker-zeer-resistente-bacterien-gevonden-in-nederlandse-ziekenhuizen
Background info about antibiotics and farming. This article is from 2015 :https://nos.nl/l/2028192
This was behind a paywall.
Because farmers use less antibiotics, infections in humans can be better controlled.
To ensure that antibiotics remain effective in combating infections in humans, it was agreed in 2010 that livestock farming should use fewer antibiotics. This is important because the more often you use antibiotics, the greater the chance that bacteria will become insensitive (resistant) to them. The downward trend in use continues.
Roel Oosterink 10-05-2019
Source: De Gelderlander
Infections with resistant bacteria are more difficult to treat. Animals can transmit the resistant bacteria to people who work in livestock farming. They in turn can pass them on to other people. The livestock farming industry is on the right track: since 2009, the use of antibiotics has fallen by 64 percent. This means that antibiotics remain effective in humans and that less need be resorted to more severe methods of combating infections.
Reduced resistance
According to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), approximately 1 in 13 Dutch people carry a resistant bacterium. Normally, we do not notice this; we do not get sick from it ourselves, but we can pass these bacteria on to others. Someone with reduced resistance (such as sick or elderly people) can get sick from it. To reduce the chance of spreading, extra hygiene is observed in hospitals and nursing homes and patients with a resistant bacterium are cared for separately. Livestock farmers who carry the MRSA bacterium via their animals are kept separately in the hospital to prevent contamination of other patients. MRSA is resistant to treatment with most antibiotics.
Because farmers use less antibiotics, infections in humans can be better controlled.
To ensure that antibiotics remain effective in combating infections in humans, it was agreed in 2010 that livestock farming should use fewer antibiotics. This is important because the more often you use antibiotics, the greater the chance that bacteria will become insensitive (resistant) to them. The downward trend in use continues.
Roel Oosterink 10-05-2019
Source: De Gelderlander
Infections with resistant bacteria are more difficult to treat. Animals can transmit the resistant bacteria to people who work in livestock farming. They in turn can pass them on to other people. The livestock farming industry is on the right track: since 2009, the use of antibiotics has fallen by 64 percent. This means that antibiotics remain effective in humans and that less need be resorted to more severe methods of combating infections.
Reduced resistance
According to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), approximately 1 in 13 Dutch people carry a resistant bacterium. Normally, we do not notice this; we do not get sick from it ourselves, but we can pass these bacteria on to others. Someone with reduced resistance (such as sick or elderly people) can get sick from it. To reduce the chance of spreading, extra hygiene is observed in hospitals and nursing homes and patients with a resistant bacterium are cared for separately. Livestock farmers who carry the MRSA bacterium via their animals are kept separately in the hospital to prevent contamination of other patients. MRSA is resistant to treatment with most antibiotics.
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2025 is in the air and I see a lot of plans, idea’s and wishful thinking for 2025 here on BYC.
It made me grateful. Because for now I really have the flock that I was wishing for 2 years ago. I succeeded to keep my lovely oldies who have been excellent mama’s in 2023 and 2024. The middle group with 3 solitary hens all have special characters, good broodies but didn’t receive a certificate for being the best mama’s. And finally I have the 2 newbies now I wanted for so long; Gin & Tonic, both great foragers and fantastic layers.
There is one thing that needs attention this year. The floor of the playhouse gets wet if it rains and its not very easy to clean a wet poopy floor.
It made me grateful. Because for now I really have the flock that I was wishing for 2 years ago. I succeeded to keep my lovely oldies who have been excellent mama’s in 2023 and 2024. The middle group with 3 solitary hens all have special characters, good broodies but didn’t receive a certificate for being the best mama’s. And finally I have the 2 newbies now I wanted for so long; Gin & Tonic, both great foragers and fantastic layers.
There is one thing that needs attention this year. The floor of the playhouse gets wet if it rains and its not very easy to clean a wet poopy floor.
That's wonderful! It can take a long time to develop a flock. I'm mostly satisfied with the hens at my house and their coops and run. It very functional, but could use a little beautifying.
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