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    What did you do with your flock today?

    Sounds like treatment is going well! Great news ❤️ It's not cold here yet either -definitely colder though - but I've noticed that the back quarter inch of Ferdy's and Stan's combs are bluish first thing in the moring and just before bed. Once they get moving their combs are back to normal...
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    Poor girl! Are you able to get superlorin implants in Australia? It's basically a contraceptive/hormonal implant that goes into the chicken's breast and stops them laying for anything up to 6 months. They're actually designed for dogs but are pretty effective in giving hens a break from...
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    As far as they're concerned, the sky is literally falling in on them... 😂
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    A bluish or purple tint to the comb can indicate issues with the cardiovascular system as it can show that there is insufficient blood oxygen. However, your girl has a large comb so given the small amount of blue, it could just be that that part of the comb is cold, you know like how we can get...
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    You've got this! It'll be much easier dealing with it having gone through it before. Wishing her a speedy recovery!
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    It's a dominance thing. She's showing the other hens who's boss. When my Gladys was moving up the pecking order to become top hen, she did this often. She rarely does it now - although she sometimes mounts the boys if she feels the need to assert her authority 🤣
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    Poor boys! Fortunately I don't have any feather pickers. I do have a hen who will fight and stomp on my two boys for any perceived transgression. I love her, keeps the boys getting too big for their britches 😆
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    My Ferdy is an absolute pussy - he hasn't been out of the sheltered, covered run or the coop since he started moulting 😂 Everyone else is happily free-ranging. Even Pru and Clara who currently resemble naked necks rather than bantam cochins.
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    Thank goodness! I thought I was going mad - DH insists he sees 7. He must have had a bang on the head and is seeing double!
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    Welcome! Sounds like you've been having great fun! I only have 7 chickens (5 hens, 2 roos). Technically one more than our local authority allows. But...6 of them are bantams so they only count as half a chicken each, right? 😂
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    Aww, I'm so sorry. Hugs.
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    Looks very much like cockerels to me! They'll be lovely looking boys when fully grown. Don't feel too bad about having cockerels, the boys have been some of my favourites. They're all such pretty birds.
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    Clara - my blue mottled - is that rare bird, a bantam cochin that's never been broody in her entire life. My roos have been more broody than her 🤣
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    We're nowhere near that cold here, still (just!) in double figures but it's dropped about 10° this week.
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    I think Callia is living proof of that! Ferdy tries to force-feed me slugs and mealworms when I'm ill. Maybe he's actually trying to poison me? 🤔
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    Our nice days look like they're over. Just rained practically all week and temps have dipped. Plus I nearly had a nasty accident coming back from the coops due to mud and slippy grass. Let's just say doing the splits is no longer in my repertoire!
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    My gateway girl was my ex-battery hen, Connie. She used to fake illness to get in the house and sofa time 😂
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    Dad was my lavender roo and mom my blue mottled. Not that she played any part in raising them. She rolled the eggs under my black mottled (her sister, Pru) and left everything to her.
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    Aww! She's just lovely 😍 Here's Penelope, first photo is with her brother, Ferdy: And here's little Pootle, with her chicken bestie, Posie. Pootle is the ginger one:
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    Aww, this is so lovely (and sad too - I'm sorry for your loss). And totally relatable. I lost my little Penelope last year to leukemia. From hatching until she went broody for the first time, she bit or pecked me daily. Then she became the sweetest girl. I was heartbroken when she died. Pootle...
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