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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...

It seems to me that a great many people do not have the ability to sit quietly and observe.

Warm, dry and mostly sunny. Three hours today. I've seen one chick, it's black and grey. It was out of the nest box when I arrived. I put it back in with Fret. It scuttled to the back and I didn't see it again although I could hear peeping. Fret is still sitting. Will she last till Sunday I...

I may never get around to doing anything with it. What I wanted was a written agreement that I had the option to fence this area for a run extension. That's what they've agreed to. I will probably put some temporary fencing to join the two and just herd the chickens onto the plot. The more...

Congratulations.:clap

Three hours today. Warmish with the occasional spitty shower. Fret got off her nest shortly after my arrival. It looks like an egg has hatched early. Not sure what happened here. It's possible Fret broke the egg. I let her stay off the nest long enough to eat a little and have a drink; she had...

Warmish and dry. Three hours today. People working on their plots so the chickens were confined to the allotment run between their coop and the goose coops. Fret was particulalry grumpy today.

Easy clean floor. Needed a towel on the only bit of soft furnishings I had. For somereason Fat Bird was fond of sitting on my laptop. Knock wondering if the chickens she saw on the screen are hiding under the desk.

I had all sorts in my house at one time or another including a donkey that wandered in. Strangely the most damage was done by a pair of dogs and the least damage by the chickens. In six years they only broke one glass on a low storage shelf and that was done by a juvenile trying to escape an...

I had chickens in my house more or less from the moment I finished building it. There are downsides I should point out.