Tag: chook
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Farewell Esme
And after the good news the sad. Coming home after a thirty six hour solid stint at work, I found gallant, aged and half blind Esme – our oldest chicken and last one of the first four back in 2005 – dead in the chicken run. She’d simply stopped, apparently after having a drink of…
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Little Chick one month on
We’ve got feathers now, and an intimidating stare…! Still not sure (haven’t looked) if we’re a boy chook or a girl chook, and unsure what the future holds if we decide to grow some. Little chook is a month old now, and has survived being left to its own devices. No special treatment, no special…
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New Chook Chick!
One of our Welsummers went broody a while ago. For a time we just kept moving her out of the coop into the run, hoping she’d forget the idea, but she insisted on returning and laying, superbly hot and shaped like a deflated football shaped non-flying saucer. In the end one of my parish council…
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