Charity was looking down in the tail today … still able to run for a handful of corn, but quiet and in a corner. Not like herself at all. I’ve been keeping an eye on her rear end for signs of a broken egg or a runny poo … nothing obvious today but her feathers [...]
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Charity gets a bath …
Posted by LB on May 12, 2012
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Broody season
We’ve just come back from two weeks away to find Charity once again broody and rather underweight. I haven’t had opportunity to ask the lovely ladies if they noticed when she took to the nest box, but I imagine it was a good few days ago now. She looked well settled! So it’s out with [...]
Posted by LB on August 13, 2011
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Aubiose and woodshavings revisited
Way back in April I reported that I was happy using Aubiose as a litter in the trays under the Cube … and I still am. However, my supplier can’t currently get any, so I’m using woodshavings for a while. They are not as absorbent, but I love the smell of freshly cut wood, and [...]
Posted by LB on January 26, 2011
http://henkeeper.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/aubiose-and-woodshavings-revisited/
Nest Box conflict
We’ve not been able to persuade all the hens to sleep on the roost bars rather than in the nest box … so each day, early, we have to check and change the nest box before any eggs are laid on soiled straw. We don’t always manage it of course, so I have a system [...]
Posted by LB on January 9, 2011
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Free range
We had an unexpectedly sunny day yesterday … and I had some unexpected (not totally) free time … so I took myself off into the garden with my lump hammer: We had decided that it was easier to fence the hens out rather than in … so I put up temporary fencing around three of [...]
Posted by LB on October 7, 2010
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Moving House
The Chooklets are now in their new quarters … I’ve cleared away the fencing that allowed the hens onto the back bank and which gave the Chooklets the run of the Hen Garden, raked over the area of grass under the apple tree (how did the hens managed to dig so many stones out of [...]
Posted by LB on June 27, 2010
http://henkeeper.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/moving-house/
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