Merlin is 'officially' twelve now, so I've moved my vote up to the next category. Here's for many more years!
She was not amused by me following her around for a picture this morning. 🤣
A slight update to this, since a reaction reminded me of it! My old, old girl, Raven, passed on about a week ago, at 11 years and roughly 8 months old. She did surpass the old man as I expected, but I'd hoped she would live to see another hatchday. Too bad. :hmm Merlin's going strong, so I'm...
My very eldest was an old mixed breed rooster who died at 11 years and 3 months or so old. That was about five years ago now. He was one of our very first chickens here and had lost all of his comb tips and a large portion of all of his toes to the early wintertime mistakes we made as first...