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🎂 :celebrate🎉 happy birthday chickens!

Try to banish that rotten feeling; you are giving her all the tlc she could wish for. Sometimes that's all we can do. Sometimes that's all the patient wants. :hugs

Some are in denial. Some assume it won't affect them and theirs and don't care what happens elsewhere. Some will even create natural havoc by targeting their enemies' natural environment (blow up a dam, poison the water etc.). Some think the tech bros will save the planet with smart solutions...

Poor Piou-piou and Lilly; I do hope they feel better very soon. Most ideas seem to be contested these days, so the decisions made (or not made) by the lawmakers are the issue, I think. And it seems to me that the amount of friction or inertia that anybody who wants change has to overcome is...

in my experience these sentiments are felt stronger the more one has. It is a truism here that if you are collecting for charity, you will be given far more by the poor than by the rich.

That's a beautiful tribute to a missed friend. :hugs

because of your comment about being shouted at for making a very sensible suggestion! There are some real head cases on BYC :rolleyes::lol: (though not on this thread I think :p) I'm a fan of old fashioned simple substances like soap and water, vinegar, bicarb, liquid paraffin, lemon juice, and...

wish I could help but I really have no experience with either bumblefoot or abscess, or water belly for that matter. But I'm glad it worked out as it did, because it sounds like she's on the road to recovery now.

:hugs you gave her a wonderful life

that would include mine :rolleyes: I didn't realize we were so behind this year, but everywhere we go, even a few miles away, seems to be ahead of us here. I think we must have copped a lot of very local low cloud/sea mist/fog or something similar to account for it. It has certainly been very...

I'd do that. You know, she may get better. She may just be fighting off a bug or (non-reproductive tract) disease that is challenging her so hard that all her resources are dealing with it, leaving insufficient calories for reproduction. I speak from experience; ill birds here sometimes take...

These are important points you've made. I think chickens like periodic changes to their diet, and now I'm wondering if the change of season may correlate with it. To ring the changes is why I switch grain mixes and legume mixes every now and then (but I always ferment them and only have one sack...

Indeed; I think we're all prone to take our food for granted, until we try to grow some ourselves and realize what a lot of work and time it takes. And thanks for the clarification on the early blossom/late frosts. Gorgeous photos as always.

Good to read that the trip to Nice went well, and that all was fine while you were away. Except the late frost of course; I remember last year (or was it the year before?) there were desperate efforts to keep some vineyards in France above freezing overnight at a critical time. I don't know how...

great news about Blanche :)

good luck with the lice-dusting! sneaky! but isn't that sort of netting supposed to be electrified?

It may be strange there but I think it's a lovely scene; a couple of roos in close proximity, each doing their own thing, each with female company. If only it was like that all the time! :lol:

I can; I was thinking of the alternate ends of the spectrum, to open discussion of what might motivate the behaviour.

Do you think Melisse does this because she sees an opportunity to rise up the ranks, or is pestering Blanche to stay awake/alive like a well-wisher dealing with an invalid?

Don't beat yourself up about Theo ManueB; your intentions were good and the boys will scrap. I hope he gets over it quickly. While I was unloading the car the day before yesterday, I was surprised to see Chirk run past with Killay in pursuit. Evidently one or more of the roos had got in with...