Ahhhhhhhh Gargoyle you are really soft!!!!!! When it comes to your hens!
Mine are doing amight better these days. I was very upset that I lost the 3 girls over the winter. I really was sad about loosing the Sussex she was aparticularly good hen.
It would seem that it was indeed the cold bitter wind that did the damage here. Since then we have totally transformed the place again! DH replaced the coop. Well if there was something going on we needed to get rid of the old one for sure. Though it is getting hosed down disinfected and we already have someone wanting it. ( I will see what happens with the health of their birds in it though they are aware we lost 3. ) We changed the coop once before when we lost Eleanor as somehow she managed to have an accident and break her neck. Then Bertha fell and hurt her foot. She is the Sussex I just lost. So weve changed again now - the coop is quite small - we deliberately did that so they are more scrunched up and get more body heat from eachother rather than being spreed out in a larger pad! At first they were not a bit happy. But they have started laying again so we are pleased. They also have a small run now it is about 6 foot by 5 foot. This is attached to the smaller coop which they also were not happy about until they realised thiis opens up and they can get out into their own "garden"! to free range and they don;t now come onto our land at all. No more chicken poo on the lawn and they can get out all year rather than being stuck in the run because we have veg growing we don;t want them to eat. So it is working out ok.
Dan is going away today to rest - bite care so I am hoping DH and I can get a bit more done here. Our Wedding anniversary is tommorow - can;t believe its near 30 yrs already! OMG - I'm getting old! Oh well good job love is blind!
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Mine are doing amight better these days. I was very upset that I lost the 3 girls over the winter. I really was sad about loosing the Sussex she was aparticularly good hen.
It would seem that it was indeed the cold bitter wind that did the damage here. Since then we have totally transformed the place again! DH replaced the coop. Well if there was something going on we needed to get rid of the old one for sure. Though it is getting hosed down disinfected and we already have someone wanting it. ( I will see what happens with the health of their birds in it though they are aware we lost 3. ) We changed the coop once before when we lost Eleanor as somehow she managed to have an accident and break her neck. Then Bertha fell and hurt her foot. She is the Sussex I just lost. So weve changed again now - the coop is quite small - we deliberately did that so they are more scrunched up and get more body heat from eachother rather than being spreed out in a larger pad! At first they were not a bit happy. But they have started laying again so we are pleased. They also have a small run now it is about 6 foot by 5 foot. This is attached to the smaller coop which they also were not happy about until they realised thiis opens up and they can get out into their own "garden"! to free range and they don;t now come onto our land at all. No more chicken poo on the lawn and they can get out all year rather than being stuck in the run because we have veg growing we don;t want them to eat. So it is working out ok.
Dan is going away today to rest - bite care so I am hoping DH and I can get a bit more done here. Our Wedding anniversary is tommorow - can;t believe its near 30 yrs already! OMG - I'm getting old! Oh well good job love is blind!
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