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Received mine. Lovely thanks!

The joys of living!

Thank you!

Muriel and I would like to thank you for the great job!

And such a beautiful eye for colour too:

Magnificent sidewalk vegetable display in Manhattan. The artist was too bashful to be photographed.

The Bichon Frise

Work takes me, in two weeks, from my beloved Oxfordshire in the UK to Manhattan! The hens that have given me so much pleasure over the past year are being rehomed with someone I know well, so that's all good. Question to you BYCers: where can I feasibly live, keep a tiny new flock and be able...

Meloxicam is a wonderful pain reliever. The same as used for dogs, I used this with great success.

They recover really well from skin loss. I have some tips here : https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/786659/injury-and-recovery-from-a-dog-attack-the-polish-hen-some-graphic-pics

Best viewed full-screen. I had to stand far enough away.

I was ready for the video tonight and have partial success. The Legbar closed "her" side of the coop but the Polish was not doing her bit. The Legbar resorted to her emergency "call-a-human" technique by flying over the fence and then walking back along it to the gate. It worked :)

They're welcome to the old heap! I was really slack-jawed with amazement as I watched this through the kitchen window. I am tapping into my Zoologist-kids to see if there is any research on task-directed planning for chickens. This is way beyond pecking at a red button to release food.

Today I saw the most amazing thing in the run that I will try and capture on video tomorrow: The chicken coop has a roof that opens in two flaps. I left them open to air the coop after having cleaned it out. At sunset my Cream Legbar and Polish hen each flew into a flap from opposite sides...