Our rainbow chicken
Did you know that hens can display err...gay behaviour? This is Flopsy, our lesbian hen!
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Maran Egg Colour
Chocolate colour eggs from our lovely Maran chicken. The dark colour improved over the next few days, starting with a lighter brown egg (right) with dark speckles to a deep milk chocolate colour (left).
Update on sick Pippy
Good news! Pippy is back from the vet, where she apparently responded very well to antibiotics and devoured crickets and mealworms.
Who said roosters ruled the roost? Buffy gets put in his place
Roosters are always thought to be the dominant ones, with the hens meekly submitting to them and the boys getting all "cocky" that they always get their way. We all thought that right? We'll that's definitely not the case! As Buffy found out on the weekend, some hens will put young roosters in their place. And not gently either!
Chicken run update - dust bath area
This morning we saw Buffy having a dust bath with Spot and Goldilocks. Boy were they loving it! Buffy was even falling asleep. It must be therapeutic for them, like a spa day, and it's always more fun when others join in. I've read that chickens have dust baths to keep the population of lice and mites down. Being winter, a dry area anywhere is a bit hard to find, but I tried to provide one for Buffy's run.
Sick Pippy
Unfortunately our little Pippy has fallen ill. This week we noticed that she had a bit of trouble breathing and this morning was gasping each breath. So it was a quick visit to the vet and the initial prognosis is a bacterial infection.
Our First Maran Egg!
Came home from work last night to find this in the nest box! One of our French Marans has laid her very first egg! Now the question is, which one laid the egg? Chocolat or Fromage?
Today's bonfire
Kangaroos just chillin' So this is how we started today's bonfire burning continuation. In 12 easy steps, you can get your fire going too! Step 1: Wait for the kangaroos to move from the bonfire location
Burn baby burn! Bonfire weekend!
What are you going to do? What do you do on a weekend when it is freezing? Besides cuddling chickens and taking chicken selfies? Build a bonfire of course
1st Day of Winter...and it was a cold one!
Penguin looking very relaxed during his morning cuddle Brrrr....I thought last year was cold, but up in the Hills, it's even colder! So what do you do when it is cold? CUDDLE YOUR CHICKEN!!!!