Nobody went broody here this year. Tomatilla went broody for a few days earlier in the year but she got broken somehow. Wish I could have just one broody per year, it would make life easier!
Everybody's flowers are so beautiful! I don't have any in bloom yet unless you count dandelions and some sort of vines. I also have some sort of tree that's blooming. Looking forward to seeing everybody's beautiful flowers!
The second last chick fell in the water and drowned. This is baffling, considering that the water pan is really shallow. The remaining chick whose splayed legs were corrected went back in the brooder with the other chicks and is integrating well. So out of four, three died and one got fixed.
Remaining splay leg chick got out of the sling today and is relearning how to use his legs. The other splay leg chick, who's all fixed up now, is keeping him company since both of the wry neck chicks died. So only two out of the four are still alive. But they are doing pretty well although after...
The weather has been all over the place! Just a little over a week ago it was snowing and now I'm wearing a tank top and its 26 degrees C. Chickens and cats both despise it.
One of the splay leg chicks went back into the brooder (there were four, two with splay leg, one with wry neck, and one with both splay leg and wry neck. The splay leg and wry neck one died). I'll check on the remaining one plus the wry neck one. I'm supplementing their Vitamin E with a bit of...