She's been laying for about one month. Very healthy, free range. For a couple of weeks she's been displaying this behaviour a couple of times a day : tucking her head back into the top of her back, and wagging her head from side to side a few times, then back to normal. She is not doing...
Here is "Minx" bought early in December, apparently she was 12 weeks old then. Not yet laying, although, look at her... ! She looks ready, doesn't she ?
My question is to clarify 'squatting'. Just this morning I watched her do the tiniest poo, and then remain in a sort of poo-ing position...
Here are two pics of "Minx". Bought at twelve weeks early in December. Not yet laying, despite that comb and those wattles... My question is this : is she a true welsummer ? I ask because all pics I've seen and info I've read show welsummers with red earlobes. Minx clearly has white. I'm...
I think, THINK, my Welsummer may have laid her first eggs. My 'first eggs', too. New to this business.
I found two mushrooms, I thought at first, in the garden. Had a closer look. Possibly eggs... brown on the outside, soft. What is making identification hard for me is that it's been...
I was sitting with my three chooks in the backyard yesterday afternoon. All three birds were happily browsing on the lawn. One chook made a cluck, only slightly different to an ordinary 'cluck', and all three FROZE in place. They held that position for at least three minutes. They were all...
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We have a Frizzle (Shostakovich), a Light Sussex (not yet named), a Blue Leghorn (possibly Tsotsi), and a Wellsummer (Minx). They are between 12 and 16 weeks, I think. Already in love... .