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Thanks, Friend!I'm sorry for your upheaval! Hopefully things will settle down now and return to normal.Sending positive thoughts to you and your chickens.
The girls average 3 eggs a day. The Original 5 (May 2010), minus broody Mum have taken to running as their own pack. Sometimes Pepenlope (the last September chick) hangs out with them. She is the largest.
The Flower girls, all of whom are molting, are spending their time together, apart from the others. Growing new feathers is a nasty, grumpy business.
It looks like Max is also going to molt, along with them. They comprise what is left of the March 2011 crop of chicks.
Mathilda and the fast-growing 10 are everywhere, She allows them free run of the yard. They have learned to perch from the tipped apple tree, and keep the asparagus bed free of bugs and weeds.
The my peeps are 3 weeks old, today, and the Feed Store gang a day older.
Aside from having such still-low egg numbers, things have morphed into being all about staying out of Broody and the Peeps' way. She runs that entire farmyard, with a watchful and proud Papa standing in attendance. He is the only one she doesn't attack for getting too near.
I am content to watch them grow, and watch the rest of the ladies return to business as usual among Black Australorp Hens, which is looking beuatiful and making big, luscious brown eggs.
Thanks so much for the good juju.
