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Thank you all so much for the kind thoughts. I feel so dumb bawling for a chicken that I knew would die, your support means a lot. Beautiful words. I don't feel guilty for once, because in her case I'm sure we did what she wanted in the end. I have been worrying she would die for such a long...

Good bye, Blanche. I had come to believe you would live forever. 1 May 2021.

I think it doesn't matter if you transplant them later in the year. We transplanted some at my family's mountain cabin in July and it worked like a charm. I've discovered we have some white ones growing far below, so I also want to transplant some. The two tone iris came out today but it's life...

They began flowering at the beginning of april, and most were destroyed by the frost. The ones in the chicken yard are the last to bloom so they didn't have flowers yet when it froze. And the two tone one I really like never came out. Are yours flowering now ? It's a complicated and kind of...

I am almost sure her issue is in the reproductive system. Her laying issues have been going on for five months now and slowly getting worse. Today she finally passed an egg, a huge elongated thing, and she almost instantly got colour back on her comb and skin. I am trying a higher level of...

This reminds me that I've had a Shadrach type of experience - I bought a kilo of organic spelt for humans to let the chickens try it out. They absolutely refused to touch it, so I tasted spelt for the first time and discovered I really like it 😊. Much more tasty than wheat, but it takes a longer...

I've noted two things about how the chickens eat recently, which I believe may be linked to them regulating their food intake to their health needs. First, my chickens preferences in general seem to have changed about a month ago. For months now they have had access to the following, from...

I don't know if he actually did much to convince the hen... apart from being a good rooster with the hens in general ! I'm glad the rehoming worked so well. I made a mistake with him, he was a bit human weary as a cockerel but he trusted me enough to come close. I was worried when Léa the...

It works nicely when we are inside with her, but our living room is not sufficiently safe for a semi blind chicken to leave her on her own- she tried a few times to peck the wood stove or crawl under it 😬, and the room isn't big enough to make her a decent enclosed space. So she will have to be...

I think it did her a lot of good to rest being quiet and warm for a whole day, even though the cats disturbed her a bit during the night, because today she was better and more active and hungry. Because the weather was finally less cold, I took her outside almost the whole day and put her in...

The last three days haven't been very cheerful, though nothing dramatic. (It used to make me feel better to talk about the stuff going wrong but now I feel it's getting harder, I just want to post photos of happy chickens in the sunshine 😁). We had two other nights of hard freeze and the...

She is taking a long time to die, but now she is unconscious sleeping almost all day, so I hope she does not feel any pain. Beautiful, thanks for sharing! I hope you enjoyed your holidays. Past two days we had a little sun, a little snow, some hail,and unfortunately a whole night in the -c/...

Blanche was not on the roost when I opened the coop. I found her hiding in a corner underneath the crate. She must have fallen off during the night. It's not likely she was pushed off, because she fell asleep right against Gaston. It looked again like she would not make it through the day...

It's more the consequence of an early bloom than a late frost, at least for us. We are used to having episodes of snow and frost until the beginning of May, but not to having temperature above 23/70 in January! You probably heard of the vineyards last year. The year before it was mostly...

It's truly nothing serious, just a severe sciatica. I thought she is accepting things rather well ; she knows that anyway at her age she couldn't have gone on forever doing all she does. And we had a really good time. I even went to Nice with them 😮( last time was in June 2022 when I had to...

I'm going to see my parents for a few days. My mum has some little health issues, nothing serious, but it will mean a complete lifestyle change ; at 76 she was still spending all her free time scuba diving or mountain hiking and those days are over. My partner will care for the chickens in the...

It's more than ok. I think we were all wondering without daring to ask. Or there could be a common cause for both conditions ? I think water belly is a symptom because organs are either under pressure, or not functioning right, it can come among other things from hypertension. I don't know...

She certainly is one of a kind. And she has us wrapped around her fingers 😂. Blanche went to roost with the other chickens tonight before I could put her in the crate. She is also incredible. She was fast asleep even with the chaos at roost time. Blanche and Nougat.

March and the beginning of April were very rainy, which was wonderful, but now it feels like we have been dumped in summer too early. The sun is scorching hot. Gaston (the farmer) came over to collect some eggs to set under one of his bantam who is broody. He wanted eggs from Annette...

While we are very relieved she isn't in such pain anymore, the sour crop is most likely a consequence and not the cause of whatever is killing her. I don't expect her to make again a miraculous come back, a relatively peaceful passing is all I wish for !