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That's a relief. I thought it might have been a member, or rather ex member of the British royal family. Coincidence due to behaviour is quite acceptable.:cool:

Thanks Bob.

Well done Lady Di and you azygous of course. Thirteen and a half is a fine age to reach for a backyard chicken. It seems to me you did everything you could for Lady Di (What were you thinking when you named her:p) Is it two more pensioners still living? You'll miss her. I know I miss the more...

I've had three cases of what would be described as wry neck. None of them stopped eating. None of them were old.None of them died. The last one is described here. All recovered in time. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/nuerological-or-something-else.1318208/

Just out of interest how much turmeric per kilo of bird and how often?

Different circumstances and not quite as old but I did try to keep to a three day rule which states that if a sick hen (not one injured and recovering) would not eat on her own after three days I killed her. I couldn't always do it on exactly the fourth day, mainly because I had known some for a...

Thin shelled eggs is something older hens produce. Strangely Blue Spot kept up shell strength right up until she got an oviduct malfunction. Fat Bird's eggs last year; all seven of them :love were right on the limit but suffered from that elongated shape older hens tend to lay. Ruffles at nine...

Lovely looking bunch.:love

Fat Bird is ten and some months and she laid an egg a couple of weeks ago and promptly stood on it and broke it. She's taken to spending a few hours a day in the house nest box. She is still very much playing with a full deck though. Blue Spot (dead now) was still laying and hatching at eleven...