Does he realize that the leg pain is from his dietary habits? Maybe it will help him decide to change what he's doing. God's way of telling you to change what you are doing.
There are bales of straw, food and dog coats at the check points in the Iditarod race. The driver will spread straw for dogs to lay on after feeding and placing coats. The dogs are also fitted w/ boots to run the race.
Hubs is all ready to build me a new coop, so I might go to the Poultry show in February and get some SOP birds to sell chicks and let the Roo get busy with our existing flock.
My girls are just 81/2 months old. I have 2 Golden buffs and 3 RIRs and a Dominique that started laying at 41/2 months and an Andalusian that was about 7 months. I get 6 - 7 eggs a day. My customer quit last month, so we are up to our eyebrows in eggs.
I want more chickens, but we already get more eggs than we can use. But I'm seriously considering a rooster. We need a strong Male presence here to help protect our girls.