Monday, 24 June 2013

Broody Hens

I feel like I haven’t updated on the chooks for so long which was one of the reasons I started the blog. The girls are blooming and after a few months of chicken broodiness all are healthy and happy. Murphy (the black chook) has been worrying us after stopping laying some months back and started  staying in the nesting box. It’s really worrying when chooks become broody as they can stop eating and drinking as they just want to sit on the eggs, luckily she has got through it though and is now back in the gang and hanging out with the girls again. Sadly we had to cut her nails yesterday and when doing so her nail fell off (just due mud stuck on it) so then had to carry out pet surgery in the garden, she is all happy today though and it seems Sam and I veterinary skills worked. Were only getting one egg a day at the moment as the weather is cooling down, hopefully Mavis will withstand the cold and keep us stocked with eggs through to summer.

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